The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone - Definition and Overview

The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. It is notable for being the one of only two Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes stories, aside from a couple of humourous vignettes, to be written in third person. The other is His Last Bow. "The Mazarin Stone" was written this way because it was adapted from a stage play, The Crown Diamond in which Watson hardly appeared.

Synopsis

Holmes is set to recover the Mazarin Stone, which was stolen by a Count Negretto Sylvius. He and his confederate discuss the matter in the presence of a dummy of Holmes, but he actually changes place with the dummy in time to hear where the stone is.

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