“Keep Your Hands Off It” — Sherlock Holmes and the Suicide
“The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” is a very unusual Sherlock Holmes story. The shortest of all the Holmes short stories and written quite late in the “canon” (February 1927, the 54th of the 56 Holmes short stories), Conan Doyle uses it to illustrate Holmes’ moral convictions rather than his intellectual skills. Indeed, in “The…
