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 Boscombe Valley Mystery

"'There is nothing so deceptive as an obvious fact'..."

" From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground."

"Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet. . . "

" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. Above the woods which lined it upon the father side we could see the red jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the Pool the woods grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds which lined the lake."

"Then he followed a path through the wood until he came to the high-road, where all traces were lost."

Crime Scene Sketch of Boscombe Valley
June 9, 1889

(Rough sketch, not drawn to scale)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891.

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