Adventure of the Empty House

Description:

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. ---------- Also contained in: [Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Volume II](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8287177W) [Best of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18195589W) [Detective Story](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4744180W/The_Detective_Story) [Eight Great Sherlock Holmes Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518171W) [Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16344900W) [Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15548953W) [Return of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262480W/The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Sherlock Holmes: Master Detective](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930421W) [Sherlock Holmes Mysteries](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518392W) [Sherlock Holmes Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930658W) [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18235145W/The_Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle_Reader) [Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518361W) [Treasury of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262548W) [Valley of Fear and Selected Cases](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518306W)

subjects: air guns,  anonymity,  attempted murder,  baritsu,  coal tar,  deformities,  locked-room mysteries,  soft-point bullets,  wax sculptures,  whist,  Fiction, general

People: Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Ronald Adair,  Earl of Maynooth,  Sebastian Moran,  James Moriarty,  Mycroft Holmes,  Inspector G. Lestrade

Places: London,  Maynooth,  Australia,  427 Park Lane,  Kensington,  Reichenbach Falls,  Florence,  Tibet,  Lhasa,  Persia,  Mecca,  Khartoum,  Camden House,  Baker Street,  Montpellier,  France

Times: 1894