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The Adventure of the Dancing Men is a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and one of the thirteen tales in The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905). In it Holmes follows a series of unnerving stick‑figure, or “dancing men,” drawings that hint at a secret method of communication. The case unravels a web of crime bosses, penal labour, and a looming threat that spans weddings, the United States, and a murder‑suicide that must be stopped, all while Holmes employs substitution ciphers and frequency analysis to decode the mysterious figures.
First publish date: March 1996
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle
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