He is an avid chess player (indeed, so is Ernest, which is how they became acquainted), suggesting to Holmes that he also has a scheming mind. He is a miser, and as such is quite a jealous man. It later turns out that Ray Ernest's family has hired him to find the missing doctor.Ī number of other things about Amberley are obvious. Holmes recognises the description it is his rival in detection, Barker. He meets a lounger with a rather military appearance in the street, and later observes him running to catch the train at Blackheath Station as he is returning to 221B Baker Street. Watson also sees Amberley's strongroom from which his wife had taken the valuables.
He even sees Amberley's wife's unused theatre ticket she and her young man disappeared while Amberley went to the theatre alone after his wife complained of a headache. He does his best, observing that Amberley is busy painting his house, which seems a bit odd. Watson to Lewisham to observe what he can, although Watson is keenly aware that this is more Holmes's province. Holmes is too busy with another case at the moment, so he sends Dr. Ray Ernest, taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his wife's disappearance. " The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
" The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"." The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier"." The Adventure of the Illustrious Client".The collection includes the following stories plus a preface by Arthur Conan Doyle.
First published in book form on June 16, 1927, it contains the twelve stories originally published in The Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (also published as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes) is the last of five Sherlock Holmes short story collections by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Cover of the first edition of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, 1927.
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