#pool 3

[worst-sherlockholmes-story]

vote for the WORSE story!

which story is worse? [pool 3]

The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Voting ended onJul 20, 2024

The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk: Holmes is contacted by a clerk who has been offered a well-paid position on the condition that he not resign from the position he has already accepted at a different company. Holmes deduces that the two men the clerk saw at his job are one and the same, and that the man's accomplice has secretly been posing as the clerk at his prior job in hopes of breaking into the building's safe.

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Holmes is contacted by a doctor who fears that his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, has been killed by a hellhound of legend. Holmes deduces that a neighbor of Baskerville Hall is a secret descendant who hoped to gain the Baskerville fortune by killing off previous heirs. He painted a large dog with phosphorus, which frightened Sir Charles to death.

[worst-sherlockholmes-story]

vote for the WORSE story!

which story is worse? [pool 3]

The Adventure of the Resident Patient

The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk

Voting ended onJul 20, 2024

The Adventure of the Resident Patient: Holmes is contacted by a doctor whose practice houses a permanent resident patient named Blessington. Holmes deduces that two men had pretended to be patients to enter the building, then had broken into Blessington's rooms. Later, Blessington is found hanged in his room. Holmes deduces that the three had been part of a criminal gang which Blessington had betrayed, and the other men had broken into Blessington's rooms with the intention of killing him.

The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk: Holmes is contacted by a clerk who has been offered a well-paid position on the condition that he not resign from the position he has already accepted at a different company. Holmes deduces that the two men the clerk saw at his job are one and the same, and that the man's accomplice has secretly been posing as the clerk at his prior job in hopes of breaking into the building's safe.

[worst-sherlockholmes-story]

vote for the WORSE story!

which story is worse? [pool 3]

The Adventure of the Resident Patient

The Adventure of the Second Stain

Voting ended onJul 20, 2024

The Adventure of the Resident Patient: Holmes is contacted by a doctor whose practice houses a permanent resident patient named Blessington. Holmes deduces that two men had pretended to be patients to enter the building, then had broken into Blessington's rooms. Later, Blessington is found hanged in his room. Holmes deduces that the three had been part of a criminal gang which Blessington had betrayed, and the other men had broken into Blessington's rooms with the intention of killing him.

The Adventure of the Second Stain: Holmes is contacted by a diplomat to recover a burgled document. A relevant spy contact of Holmes' has been murdered. Though the man bled through a rug, there is no stain on the floor underneath. Holmes deduces that the rug has been put back the wrong way after being moved and finds an empty hiding place in the floor. Holmes contacts the diplomat's wife, who admits she had stolen the document to pay the spy's blackmail and retrieved it after his murder.