Sherlock Holmes
The Case of the Dancing Men
Its code-themed story probably inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Gold-Bug’, ‘The Dancing Men’ is one of Holmes’s
greatest code-breaking triumphs. Doyle himself considered it the third best Sherlock Holmes story of the lot.
Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk, and husband to a nervous wife, tells Holmes a series of stick
figures have started to appear chalked up on the window-sill of the house. What do they mean, and who is responsible for
them?
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