Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases

Description:

From country mansions to opium dens, from the squalid backstreets of London Bridge to the leafy avenues of Chelsea, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases casts Sherlock Holmes in some of his most thrilling and wickedly clever adventures. Here six Napoleonic busts are violently destroyed throughout London; a strange, yellow face appears at a cottage window then mysteriously vanishes; dark horrors lurk beneath copper beeches; a man with a twisted lip hides a shameful secret; and, of course, the great detective dazzles with his ingenious mind. --back cover

subjects: English literature,  Fiction,  English Detective and mystery stories,  busts,  gangsters,  Italians,  Tahitian pearls,  brokers,  clerks,  redundancy,  scrips,  defrocking,  Detective and mystery stories,  Intestacy,  Mystery and detective stories,  Children's fiction,  Apaces,  churches,  maids,  prospecting,  anise,  broughams,  butlers,  consumption,  cottages,  dogs,  extortion,  kidnapping,  rugby unions,  telegraphy,  carbuncles,  Christmas dinners,  commissionaires,  Private investigators,  Private investigators in fiction,  detective fiction,  brain fever,  darkrooms,  electric blue,  English Mastiffs,  governesses,  revolvers,  brandy,  Justices of the Peace,  half-pennies,  lascars,  opium dens,  pennies,  blackmail,  mixed race children,  tobacco pipes,  yellow fever,  catalepsy,  amyl nitrate,  suicide by hanging

People: Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Hatty Doran,  Lord St. Simon,  Inspector G. Lestrade,  Francis H. Moulton,  Cyril Overton,  Godfrey Staunton,  Lord Mount-James,  Leslie Armstrong,  Pompey,  Napoleon Bonaparte,  Morse Hudson,  Dr. Barnicot,  Horace Harker,  Beppo,  Pietro Venucci,  House of Borgia,  Hall Pycroft,  Arthur Pinner,  Harry Pinner,  Violet Smith,  Mr. Carruthers,  Mr. Woodley,  Ralph Smith,  Cyril Morton,  Baker Street Irregulars,  Countess of Morcar,  John Horner,  Peterson,  Henry Baker,  Breckinridge,  Mrs Oakshott,  Catherine Cusack,  James Ryder,  Mrs. Oakshott,  Violet Hunter,  Jephro Rucastle,  Mr. Toller,  Mrs. Toller,  Alice Rucastle,  Victor Trevor,  Mr. Trevor,  Hudson,  Beddoes,  James Armitage,  Jack Prendergast,  Kate Whitney,  Isa Whitney,  Neville St. Clair,  Hugh Boone,  Grant Munro,  Effie Munro,  John Hebron,  Lucy Hebron,  Percy Trevelyan,  Blessington

Places: Scotland Yard,  London,  Chiswick,  Birmingham,  Lombard Street,  France,  Paddington district,  Farnham,  Surrey,  South Africa,  Charlington Hall,  Coventry,  221B Baker Street,  England,  Hyde Park,  Serpentine,  Trinity College,  Cambridge,  University of Oxford,  Strand,  Baker Street,  Alpha Inn,  British Museum,  Covent Garden,  Brixton,  Copper Beeches,  Hampshire,  Winchester,  Norfolk,  Goldfields region of Victoria,  Fordingbridge,  Australia,  Falmouth,  Upper Swandam Lane,  River Thames,  Norbury,  America,  Brook Street,  Portugal

Times: 1894