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The Adventure of the Second Stain - Definition and Overview |
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The Adventure of the Second Stain, 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.
Synopsis
In this story, the Prime Minister visits Sherlock Holmes with the Minister for European Affairs to ask him to track down a vital document that had been stolen the previous evening. Holmes finds a connection with a murder being investigated by Inspector Lestrade and finds the criminal.
Trivia
This case was first mentioned in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty", written 11 years earlier in 1893. In that story, Watson says that this case has "interest of such importance and implicates so many of the first families in the kingdom that for many years it will be impossible to make it public."
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