The Adventure of the Copper BeechesThe Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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Streaming Audiobook, 2011
Current format, Streaming Audiobook, 2011, Unabridged, Available.Streaming Audiobook, 2011
Current format, Streaming Audiobook, 2011, Unabridged, Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThe Adventure of the Copper Beeches is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and is the last of the twelve collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in June 1892. Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, Đ120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson, and Hunter enter, it is empty. They are accused of freeing the prisoner, who was the daughter of Hunter's employer, who sets his dog on them, though it attacks him instead. It is revealed that Hunter had been hired to impersonate her employer's daughter so that her fianč would believe she was no longer interested in seeing him, but the daughter had escaped and the pair later married.
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