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Holmes recibe un mensaje de Porlock, uno de los agentes del profesor Moriarty. A pesar de que la ley ve a Moriarty como inocente, el detective cree firmemente que es artífice y señor de todo un inframundo criminal. Sherlock, ayudado por Watson, descifra el mensaje de Porlock y descubren que la vida de John Douglas, que reside en Birlstone, está en peligro. Poco después, Scotland Yard informa a Sherlock y Watson que el Sr. Douglas fue encontrado asesinado.

Tras una majestuosa boda, la novia desaparece durante la recepción. El adinerado Lord Simon, su nuevo esposo, no tiene la más mínima idea si su nueva esposa se encuentra viva, secuestrada o si a escapado con otro hombre a sus espaldas. La ansiedad y los nervios de perderla influirán para que Simon, desesperadamente y con el corazón en la mano, solicite la ayuda de Sherlock Holmes y su fiel compañero Watson. Se supone que una boda es un momento sumamente importante de la vida. ¿Qué habrá salido mal? ¿Qué afectó en la ceremonia para que la novia desapareciera?

Watson joins Holmes late one night as the detective takes on the case of an army officer who has died an apparently violent death. He is found in a pool of blood, his head savagely struck during an argument with his wife, who is now incapacitated by the traumatic event. Yet there is evidence that suggests the presence of a third party in the locked room - and even a strange, curtain-climbing animal of unknown origins.

Four more stories from the master detective. The mystery of the missing suitor is solved and Sherlock Holmes raises his whip: an Indian pot stands in the shadows of a Colonel's death; serious affairs of state and international diplomacy are threatened by a theft; and surely evil intent lies behind threats in a hidden house. The cool observations and swift action of Mr. Sherlock Holmes resolves all.

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'The Adventure of the Crooked Man' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes invites Watson to witness the final stage of an investigation. A colonel is dead, and his wife is considered the prime suspect. While all the signs seem to point to her, Sherlock seems to think otherwise.