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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated

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Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle,

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2021

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By: Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle | Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US | Released: 02 Apr 2021

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Watson receives a note from Holmes to join him in his journey to Boscombe Valley. A man, Charles McCarty, had been murdered brutally and his son, James McCarthy, is suspected and has considerable circumstantial evidence against him. Holmes has been hired by a young woman, Alice Turner, who lives in the same neighborhood and is the daughter of the murdered man's landlord and friend, John Turner. Holmes gathers that from the accused's statement his father had called to his son by a peculiar cry, "Coee!" but was surprised to see him. They had an argument which he refuses to state the cause of. After the son left, he heard his father's cry and found him dying alluding to a "rat." Holmes learns from Alice Turner that McCarthy had been unsuccessfully trying to convince his son to propose marriage to her. However, Holmes observes the crime scene to find the presence of another man and murder weapon, a stone. He avoids naming the murderer to Lestage as it is the landlord, Mr. Turner, who is a dying man and would rather avoid humiliating himself to his daughter. He confesses to Holmes that he had been a dacoit, Black Jack of Ballarat, who was once seen by McCarthy during a raid and has since been blackmailing him. To stop him from destroying the life of his daughter, Turner decided to murder him. Holmes avoids using this confession and gets James McCarthy acquitted on the basis of multiple objections.
The case starts on a stormy night when a client calls. Holmes suspects it to be of urgency given the weather and the agitated state the client, John Openshaw, is in. He states that he has inherited considerable wealth from his uncle who after working in an American plantation, fought in the American Civil War and later retired to the quiet country life of England. One day, the uncle received a letter containing five orange pips, with just "K.K.K." written inside the envelope. This scared him, and he hurriedly prepared his will and named his brother his benefactor. Openshaw also observed his uncle to have burned some papers taken from a tin with the same letters inscribed inside. He noticed an unburnt margin and preserved it. After seven weeks, his uncle died in an unexplained but innocuous manner. After a year, the same incident happened with his father and he himself received the same letter with the inscription, "Put the papers on the sundial" a day before. Holmes gets extremely worried and urges him to put out the empty tin, the remaining margin with a note explaining the burning of the other papers. However, the next day Openshaw is found dead. Holmes traces the perpetrators to a gang called the Ku Klux Klan who extorted money from people and that Openshaw's uncle was once a member and had escaped with gang papers to England. Holmes wires the police of Savannah where these men were headed but it turns out that the ship they were on sank midway.