THIS WEEK: The Adventure of The Lion's ManeFrom THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1927),notable as one of the few Holmes stories narrated by Holmes himself.
Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one
day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a
nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than
Stackhurst's science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, clearly
in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to
say something about a "lion's mane", and then succumbs. He is
observed to have red welts all over his back, possibly administered by a
flexible weapon of some kind, for the marks curve over his shoulder and round
his ribs.
Moments later, Ian Murdoch, a mathematics teacher at The
Gables, comes up behind them. He has not seen the attack, and has only just
arrived at the beach from the school. Holmes sees a couple of people far up the
beach, but thinks they are much too far away to have had anything to do with
McPherson's death. How did he die?
Savannah Blindside, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live on stream from the Seanchai Fireside Room.
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