Crime Scene Sketches:

  1. Introduction by John Bennett Shaw

  2. The Adventure of the Speckled Band

  3. The Resident Patient

  4. The Sign of Four

  5. A Study in Scarlet

  6. The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

  7. The Adventure of the Three Students

  8. The Adventure of the Dancing Men

  9. The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez

  10. The Reigate Squires

  11. The Adventure of the Second Stain

  12. The Boscombe Valley Mystery

  13. The Problem of Thor Bridge

  14. The Crooked Man

  15. The Adventure of the Priory School

  16. The Naval Treaty

  17. The Adventure of Black Peter

  18. The Man With the Twisted Lip

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The Adventure of Black Peter

"As long as the criminal remains upon two legs
so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion,
some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher."

"It was a little, single-roomed hut, sixteen feet by ten. . . There are small windows on each side, which were covered by curtains, and never opened. One of these windows turned towards the high-road. . ."

"He had called it a cabin, and a cabin it was, sure enough, for you would have thought that you were in a ship. There was a bunk at one end, a sea-chest, maps and charts, a picture of the 'Sea Unicorn', a line of log-books on a shelf, all exactly as one would expect to find it in a captain's room. And there in the middle of it was the man himself, his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony. Right through his broad chest a steel harpoon had been driven, and it had sund deep into the wood of the wall behind him. He was pinned like a beetle on a card."

". . . a bottle of rum and two dirty glasses stood upon the table."

". . . there was a tantalus containing brandy and whisky on the sea-chest."

"There was this tobacco pouch upon the table."

"I told you that I picked the book off the floor. . . It lay near the door."

sketch yet to come

Crime scene sketch of "the cabin"
at Woodman's Lee, near Forest Row in Sussex
Friday, July 5, 1895
The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection, The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Colliers.

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