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The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in the Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Holmes and Watson use a bloodhound to find "The Missing Three-Quarter" Synopsis
Sherlock Holmes receives a visit from Cyril Overton, who turns out to be a famous rugby coach. Overton is rather upset when Holmes, not a rugby fan, fails to recognise him, but consults the detective about his problem anyway. Overton's star player Godfrey Staunton has gone missing just days before a big match. Unless he can be found, there is no chance of winning.
When Holmes and Watson try to search for the man, they soon find their investigation is being blocked by Dr. Leslie Armstrong, "a thinker of European reputation in more than one branch of science". However, with the help of a bloodhound called Pompey, they finally track down the missing man.
Trivia
In the opening of this story, Watson claims that for years he "had gradually weaned him [Holmes] from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career."
This is the second story in which Holmes uses a bloodhound to track someone. The other time it happens is in the novel The Sign of Four.
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