![]() ![]() The only other way out was the window, and there was a 20-foot (about 6m) drop below it onto a flower bed, which now shows no sign of being disturbed, yet he was killed with a soft-point bullet to the back of his head. Ronald's door was locked from the inside. It does, however, come out that he won as much as £420 in partnership with Colonel Sebastian Moran. Adair liked playing whist and regularly did so at several clubs, but never for significant sums of money. He was in his sitting room, with a window open, working on accounts of some kind, as indicated by the papers and money found by police. The authorities, not to mention the man's family, are perplexed by the case: it seems that Adair had not an enemy in the world. The Honorable Ronald Adair, son of the Earl of Maynooth, a high colonial official in Australia, is found murdered. The story takes place three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring Holmes back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. "The Adventure of the Empty House" is the first Sherlock Holmes short story of the 13 collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]()
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