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4 unusual facts about The Adventure of the Deptford Horror


The Adventure of the Deptford Horror

The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.

Several of her relatives have died in the past few years of heart attacks.

This apocryphal story was inspired by the mention in "The Adventure of Black Peter" of Holmes's "arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East-End of London." In this story, Wilson is not arrested, but this discrepancy is explained as an error due to Dr Watson.

The Adventure of the Deptford Horror is a Sherlock Holmes story by Adrian Conan Doyle.



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