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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons - Definition and Overview |
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, 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
The plot revolves around the theft of small, inexpensive plaster castings of Napoleon Bonaparte, of which six are known to exist. The case is brought to Holmes by his friend Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard, who is baffled as to the possible motive as in each case the statue is destroyed shortly after the theft. The climax of the story occurs with the purchase of the sixth statue by Holmes after the culprit is apprehended attempting to steal the fifth.
The story was dramatized in the popular Grenada Television series starting Jeremy Brett.
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