The Adventure Of The Dying Detective A Sherlock Holmes Short Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Feigning a fatal tropical illness, a brilliant detective orchestrates an elaborate ruse to expose a murderer who weaponizes exotic diseases. He sends his anxious friend to summon the culprit to his sickroom, draws out a self-incriminating confession, and reveals that his apparent decline was a calculated performance to secure evidence. With police hidden nearby, the trap is sprung, the killer is arrested, and the detective admits he starved himself for days to make the deception convincing.
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- Published
- 1913
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 16-30
- Original Language
- English
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