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The Crooked Man, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Crooked Man 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay, of The Royal Mallows based at Aldershot Camp, is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife, Nancy, is the prime suspect.

A short story featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye Tess Monaghan and Whitney Talbot witness an altercation between a boorish restaurant patron and a shoeshine man. When it is discovered that the mild-mannered shoeshine man is wanted...