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<h1>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: reference groups</h1>
<p class="meta">Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892 (Project Gutenberg #1661 text). 12 stories, 391 scenes cut by the same rule as <code>chunk.py</code>.
Summaries, predicaments, groups and options written by Claude by reading every scene: no local inference.
A comparison baseline, not a pack. Option moves give a direction only, never a number.</p>
<section><h2>G01 · The evidence all points at you</h2>
<p class="pred">Something terrible has happened, every sign points at you, and the people deciding will not look past the obvious.</p>
<p class="meta">A accused person wants to be cleared from those who have already judged them. · 9 scenes from 5 stories
(The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Tell your story plainly and trust it to hold. <span class='src'>from scene 99</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.authority +</code></li><li>Deny everything and call the witness mistaken. <span class='src'>from scene 171</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.accuser -</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Accept arrest calmly, as no more than you deserve. <span class='src'>from scene 96</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.authority +</code></li><li>Find someone outside the official inquiry to look again. <span class='src'>from scene 95 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.investigator +</code></li><li>Struggle and protest as they take you. <span class='src'>from scene 198</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.authority -</code> <code>flags.resisted set</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>93</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A young man is seen following his father with a weapon shortly before the father is found dead.</summary><p class="sum">Witnesses saw the father walk alone to the pool, followed shortly by his son carrying a gun.</p></details><details><summary><b>94</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A son who quarrelled with his father just before the father&#x27;s death is found with blood on his hands and arrested.</summary><p class="sum">A girl saw father and son quarrelling violently; the son then ran for help with blood on his hands, and the dead father&#x27;s wounds fit his gun; he was arrested.</p></details><details><summary><b>96</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An accused man&#x27;s unguarded remark at his arrest is taken by everyone as proof he did it.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator notes the son said at his arrest that it was no more than he deserved, which the jury took as guilt.</p></details><details><summary><b>99</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An accused man tells a true story of a quarrel and a death that sounds exactly like the story of a guilty man.</summary><p class="sum">The son&#x27;s statement: he heard his father&#x27;s call, found him by the pool, quarrelled, walked off, heard a cry and found him dying.</p></details><details><summary><b>101</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An accused man&#x27;s strangest details, which could clear him, are exactly what make the official doubt his story.</summary><p class="sum">The garment vanished while his back was turned; the coroner calls every point in his account suspicious.</p></details><details><summary><b>171</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A suspect with blood on his sleeve denies everything, insists the only witness is mad, and waits.</summary><p class="sum">The beggar was arrested with blood on his sleeve which he blamed on a cut, denied all, and called the wife mad; the missing man&#x27;s coat turned up in the mud.</p></details><details><summary><b>198</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A workman with a past conviction is accused of a theft on one witness&#x27;s word, and faints protesting his innocence.</summary><p class="sum">The report: a hotel attendant testified he left a workman with a previous conviction alone in the room; the workman protested his innocence and fainted.</p></details><details><summary><b>294</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A woman with a past claim on a groom is arrested because she made a scene at his wedding.</summary><p class="sum">The arrested woman is an old acquaintance of the groom; the proud, foppish client arrives.</p></details><details><summary><b>327</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A parent catches his son with a damaged treasure in his hands and calls him a thief before hearing a word.</summary><p class="sum">At night he found his son holding the damaged treasure, and accused him of theft; the son denied anything was missing.</p></details></section><section><h2>G02 · The truth would clear you, and cost someone else</h2>
<p class="pred">You are suspected of something you did not do, and the one explanation that would clear you would expose someone else.</p>
<p class="meta">A suspect with a secret wants to be cleared without betraying anyone from their accusers. · 5 scenes from 3 stories
(The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Refuse to say, whatever it costs you. <span class='src'>from scene 100</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>flags.secret_kept set</code> <code>relationships.protected +</code></li><li>Tell the whole truth and let it fall where it will. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.protected -</code></li><li>Ask for a few minutes alone to put things right yourself. <span class='src'>from scene 328</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.authority risk</code></li><li>Keep up a disguise rather than be recognised. <span class='src'>from scene 187</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>100</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A suspect refuses to explain the one thing that could clear him, to protect a secret of his own.</summary><p class="sum">At the inquest the son refused to say what the quarrel was about, reported odd dying words, and thought he saw a grey garment that later vanished.</p></details><details><summary><b>187</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person seen in his secret life by his spouse would rather be accused of his own murder than be recognised.</summary><p class="sum">Seen at the window by his wife, he disguised himself, threw out his weighted coat, and was arrested for his own murder.</p></details><details><summary><b>328</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A young man wrongly accused by his own parent refuses to explain himself, out of pride and to protect someone.</summary><p class="sum">The son refuses to say more; the niece faints; the police come and the son asks to leave the house for five minutes.</p></details><details><summary><b>330</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A young man spurns forgiveness for a crime he did not commit and is taken away, saying nothing.</summary><p class="sum">The son sneers at forgiveness and is arrested; nothing is found; the banker has lost honour, gems and son in one night.</p></details><details><summary><b>346</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A young man accused of a theft he tried to stop keeps silent rather than expose the person he loves.</summary><p class="sum">He chased the thief, struggled and recovered most of it; he kept silent to protect the woman he loved, even under arrest.</p></details></section><section><h2>G03 · Someone holds proof of your past</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone from your past holds proof that could wreck the life or marriage you are building now.</p>
<p class="meta">A person with a past wants the proof, or silence from someone who knows. · 6 scenes from 3 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Pay whatever they ask. <span class='src'>from scene 123</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.blackmailer +</code></li><li>Try to buy or steal the proof back. <span class='src'>from scene 10</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>flags.broke_law set</code></li><li>Hire someone discreet to deal with it. <span class='src'>from scene 11</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.investigator +</code></li><li>Keep the occasion quiet and have help at the door. <span class='src'>from scene 299</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>relationships.former -</code></li><li>Silence them for good. <span class='src'>from scene 124</span><br><code>flags.violent set</code> <code>standing risk</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>10</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A powerful man&#x27;s old indiscretion is preserved in proof he cannot buy or steal back, however hard he tries.</summary><p class="sum">The client wrote compromising letters and had himself photographed with the woman; five attempts to steal the picture back have failed.</p></details><details><summary><b>11</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A powerful man&#x27;s planned marriage will collapse if a former lover makes good her threat to reveal their past.</summary><p class="sum">The woman threatens to send the photograph to his bride&#x27;s family when the betrothal is announced; he gives the investigator a free hand and money.</p></details><details><summary><b>123</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A man long blackmailed over his past pays everything he is asked until the blackmailer demands his child.</summary><p class="sum">The witness blackmailed him for twenty years, living off him, and at last demanded the man&#x27;s daughter marry his son.</p></details><details><summary><b>124</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A desperate man bled for years by a blackmailer kills him to protect his child, and would do it again.</summary><p class="sum">He overheard the blackmailer urging his son to marry the daughter, and struck him down in desperation; the investigator refuses to judge him.</p></details><details><summary><b>293</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A former companion of a groom tries to force her way into his wedding, and is suspected when the bride vanishes.</summary><p class="sum">A woman claiming a hold on the groom tried to force her way in; the bride left in a hurry; the intruding woman has been arrested.</p></details><details><summary><b>299</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A man admits a former companion threatened to make a scene at his wedding, and that he took steps to stop her.</summary><p class="sum">The client admits a long, close attachment to the arrested woman, who wrote threatening letters; he doubts she would hurt anyone.</p></details></section><section><h2>G04 · A warning nobody else takes seriously</h2>
<p class="pred">You have had a warning you believe means real danger, and the people who should protect you think you imagine it.</p>
<p class="meta">A threatened person wants to be believed and kept safe from those who dismiss the warning. · 10 scenes from 3 stories
(The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Laugh it off as someone&#x27;s joke. <span class='src'>from scene 138</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.marked set</code></li><li>Go to the authorities anyway. <span class='src'>from scene 140</span><br><code>relationships.authority -</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Seek help from someone outside the official channels. <span class='src'>from scene 230</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.investigator +</code></li><li>Lock yourself in and wait. <span class='src'>from scene 135</span><br><code>nerve -</code></li><li>Give the threatener what they are asking for. <span class='src'>from scene 142 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>relationships.pursuer +</code> <code>flags.gave_in set</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>133</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A man receives a silent token he recognises as a death threat from people he wronged long ago.</summary><p class="sum">A letter arrived holding five dried seeds and three initials; the uncle turned grey with terror, said his sins had caught him up, and fetched a box from the attic.</p></details><details><summary><b>135</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A man living under a death threat swings between locking himself in and raging defiantly at an enemy he cannot see.</summary><p class="sum">After that the uncle drank more, locked himself in, and sometimes rushed out armed, screaming he feared no one.</p></details><details><summary><b>137</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A person who laughed off a relative&#x27;s fear receives the same threat himself and is suddenly afraid.</summary><p class="sum">The father found the box&#x27;s label; two years later he received the same token with an order to leave the papers on the sundial.</p></details><details><summary><b>138</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A threatened man refuses to take a warning seriously or let anyone go to the authorities, for fear of looking foolish.</summary><p class="sum">The father dismissed it as a joke and forbade the son to go to the police for fear of ridicule.</p></details><details><summary><b>140</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A person who has received a death threat his relatives did not survive is dismissed by the authorities as a crank.</summary><p class="sum">After nearly three quiet years the son received the same token; the police laughed at him and he felt helplessly doomed.</p></details><details><summary><b>141</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A threatened young man brings his helper a single torn scrap of proof, too late to do more than guess.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator is angry he waited; the son produces a surviving diary page recording warnings sent and victims cleared.</p></details><details><summary><b>222</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A person whose fears rest on small signs is gently dismissed as nervous by the very person she should trust.</summary><p class="sum">Her fears are so vague that even her fiancé thinks them nerves; she lives with her stepfather in an old ruined family house.</p></details><details><summary><b>227</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — Two sisters, too afraid to sleep unlocked, share a small uneasy sign of danger and dismiss it.</summary><p class="sum">The night of her death her sister asked if she had heard a whistle at night; they locked their doors for fear of the animals.</p></details><details><summary><b>230</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman, newly engaged, finds herself in the very place and danger that killed her sister before her wedding.</summary><p class="sum">She is now engaged; forced by repairs to sleep in her dead sister&#x27;s bed, she heard the same whistle and fled at dawn.</p></details><details><summary><b>257</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A victim fears no one will believe his story or be able to act on the vague clues he can give.</summary><p class="sum">He fears the police will not believe his strange story or be able to act; the narrator takes him to the investigator.</p></details></section><section><h2>G05 · The offer that pays too well</h2>
<p class="pred">You badly need money, and a stranger offers far too much for easy work on conditions you are told not to question.</p>
<p class="meta">A person short of money wants the pay from a generous stranger. · 17 scenes from 3 stories
(The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Take it and ask no questions. <span class='src'>from scene 265</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>flags.took_the_fee set</code></li><li>Refuse the one condition you cannot stomach. <span class='src'>from scene 360</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Take it, but tell someone where you are going. <span class='src'>from scene 362</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.adviser +</code></li><li>Ask what the work is really for. <span class='src'>from scene 262</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.employer risk</code></li><li>Turn it down. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>money -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>37</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A stay-at-home person short of money is told by a trusted helper that easy money is his for the asking.</summary><p class="sum">The assistant tells the stay-at-home client about a fund paying easy money to men with his colouring, and says he is eligible.</p></details><details><summary><b>38</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A trusted helper talks up an easy windfall while pretending indifference, so that his employer will push to claim it.</summary><p class="sum">The assistant explains the eccentric benefactor&#x27;s fund and hints it is hardly worth the effort, drawing the client further in.</p></details><details><summary><b>40</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A hopeful applicant is singled out and flattered by the person in charge, above all the other candidates.</summary><p class="sum">The man at the office rejects everyone else but greets the client warmly and declares him perfectly suited.</p></details><details><summary><b>41</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person offered a windfall is made to feel it nearly slipped away, so he grasps it more eagerly.</summary><p class="sum">The manager tests the hair by pulling it, fills the post, then feigns doubt because the client is unmarried before letting it pass.</p></details><details><summary><b>42</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person accepts easy pay on the strange condition that he stay away from his own business for hours every day.</summary><p class="sum">The client agrees to strict hours copying an encyclopedia, forbidden to leave the room, while the assistant offers to mind the shop.</p></details><details><summary><b>43</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — Someone who suspects an offer is too good to be true is reassured when it is paid exactly as promised.</summary><p class="sum">That night he suspects a hoax, but next day finds everything as promised, and is set to copying and locked out at two.</p></details><details><summary><b>260</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A struggling beginner is flattered by a stranger who has oddly checked that no one would miss him.</summary><p class="sum">A strange, gaunt foreign client calls, having heard he is discreet, an orphan, a bachelor, and lives alone.</p></details><details><summary><b>261</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A desperate beginner is offered far too much money by a stranger who insists no one must ever know.</summary><p class="sum">The client demands absolute secrecy, checks the passage for listeners, and offers a large fee for a night&#x27;s work.</p></details><details><summary><b>262</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person short of work swallows his doubts about a strange late-night job because the pay is too good to refuse.</summary><p class="sum">The job is to inspect a machine at a remote country house late at night; the engineer hesitates but accepts for the money.</p></details><details><summary><b>264</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A newcomer is given a plausible reason for secrecy that makes him a partner in a small deception.</summary><p class="sum">He claims he is secretly digging a valuable mineral to buy his neighbours&#x27; land cheaply before they know its worth.</p></details><details><summary><b>265</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person uneasy about a job and the stranger offering it decides the money outweighs his doubts, and tells no one.</summary><p class="sum">The engineer finds the story odd and the client repellent, but decides the fee is worth it and goes, telling no one.</p></details><details><summary><b>357</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A young person running out of money is singled out with delight by a stranger with a job to offer.</summary><p class="sum">Out of work and running out of money, she was spotted at an agency by a stout, genial man who declared her perfect.</p></details><details><summary><b>358</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person in need is offered far more than her work is worth, and an advance, by a flattering stranger.</summary><p class="sum">He offered far more than her usual pay, and an advance, insisting a lady of her bearing deserved it.</p></details><details><summary><b>359</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An employee is told that generous pay comes with odd conditions she must accept without asking why.</summary><p class="sum">He said the duties were light, caring for a cruel little child, and she must humour his wife by wearing chosen dresses and sitting where told.</p></details><details><summary><b>360</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person refuses one strange demand attached to a generous offer, and loses it along with her agent&#x27;s goodwill.</summary><p class="sum">He demanded she cut her hair short; she refused and lost the post, to the agent&#x27;s annoyance.</p></details><details><summary><b>361</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person who turned down easy money on principle begins to regret it as the bills mount.</summary><p class="sum">Short of money and in debt, she regretted refusing; then a letter came from the man renewing the offer.</p></details><details><summary><b>362</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person is offered even more money to accept conditions that make no sense, and decides to take it.</summary><p class="sum">He raised the pay further, explaining the dress and the hair as his wife&#x27;s fancies; she has decided to accept but asks for advice.</p></details></section><section><h2>G06 · Alone in a house you cannot read</h2>
<p class="pred">You have come alone to a remote house where nothing is explained, and the people in it watch you closely.</p>
<p class="meta">A newcomer wants to do the job and get out from the household. · 12 scenes from 2 stories
(The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Do as you are told and keep your eyes open. <span class='src'>from scene 373</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.employer +</code></li><li>Find a way to see what is going on behind your back. <span class='src'>from scene 374 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>cunning +</code> <code>relationships.employer risk</code></li><li>Keep your spirits up and see it through. <span class='src'>from scene 269</span><br><code>nerve +</code></li><li>Leave at the first chance, pay or no pay. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>nerve -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>266</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person who agreed to a secret job is met at night and hurried into a closed carriage to an unknown place.</summary><p class="sum">At a lonely country station the client hurries him into a closed carriage; the investigator asks about the horse.</p></details><details><summary><b>267</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person is driven for an hour through the dark with no view out, watched closely by the man who hired him.</summary><p class="sum">A long drive with frosted windows and a silent, staring companion ends at a house he cannot see.</p></details><details><summary><b>268</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A stranger alone in an unknown house glimpses a frightened woman who is quickly hustled out of sight.</summary><p class="sum">A frightened woman appears with a lamp, is pushed back, and he is left alone in a small room.</p></details><details><summary><b>269</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person waiting alone in a strange house is secretly approached by someone who is plainly terrified.</summary><p class="sum">He waits uneasily in the silent barred room; the woman returns, sick with fear, and signals silence.</p></details><details><summary><b>271</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person ignores a warning and follows his employers deeper into a strange, decaying house.</summary><p class="sum">The client, suspicious, brings a morose associate and leads him through a decaying house to the machine.</p></details><details><summary><b>272</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person is led into a confined place by a man who jokes about how dangerous it would be.</summary><p class="sum">The client shows him into the machine itself, remarking how unpleasant it would be if someone turned it on.</p></details><details><summary><b>368</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An employee in a lonely house has suffered no harm but cannot understand what her employers really want.</summary><p class="sum">She says she has not been mistreated but cannot understand her employers; she describes the damp, isolated house.</p></details><details><summary><b>371</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A newcomer in an isolated house is surrounded by sullen, watchful helpers and asked to do something strange.</summary><p class="sum">The two servants are unpleasant, the man often drunk; she is asked to put on a blue dress.</p></details><details><summary><b>372</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An employee is made to perform a strange routine for her employers, and does not know who is watching.</summary><p class="sum">Wearing a dress that has been worn before, she is seated with her back to the window while the man tells funny stories.</p></details><details><summary><b>373</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An employee repeats a strange performance for her employers and grows curious what it is for.</summary><p class="sum">The performance is repeated; she reads aloud, carefully positioned, then is told to stop and change.</p></details><details><summary><b>375</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A newcomer is warned that a savage beast is loosed every night and that going outside after dark would be fatal.</summary><p class="sum">She was shown a starved guard dog set loose each night and warned never to go out after dark.</p></details><details><summary><b>376</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person in a lonely house sees for herself the guard that keeps everyone in and everyone out.</summary><p class="sum">At night she saw the huge dog pacing the lawn.</p></details></section><section><h2>G07 · You have seen too much</h2>
<p class="pred">You have stumbled on something the people around you meant to keep hidden, and they may know you have seen it.</p>
<p class="meta">A person who knows too much wants to get away safely from those with the secret. · 7 scenes from 3 stories
(The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Say plainly that you know. <span class='src'>from scene 274</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.in_danger set</code></li><li>Play innocent and say only that it frightened you. <span class='src'>from scene 381</span><br><code>cunning +</code></li><li>Slip back in when the door is left open. <span class='src'>from scene 379</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.host -</code> <code>flags.trespassed set</code></li><li>Quietly send word to someone outside. <span class='src'>from scene 382 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>relationships.adviser +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>132</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A young person is trusted with everything in a household except one locked room no one may enter.</summary><p class="sum">The uncle took to the boy and made him master of the house, except for one attic room he always kept locked.</p></details><details><summary><b>274</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person angry at being deceived says so rashly and is at once trapped by the people he exposed.</summary><p class="sum">He rashly lets on he knows the story is false; the client locks him in the machine.</p></details><details><summary><b>279</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A survivor learns that someone in his position before him was never seen again.</summary><p class="sum">The porter knows nothing of the client; the investigator reads out a notice for an engineer who vanished a year earlier.</p></details><details><summary><b>378</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person asks an innocent question about a locked part of the house, and sees her employer&#x27;s mask slip.</summary><p class="sum">She saw the man emerge angrily from a locked wing and asked about its shuttered window.</p></details><details><summary><b>379</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person who senses she is not meant to know something takes her chance to find out when a door is left open.</summary><p class="sum">He claimed it was his darkroom with no jest in his eyes; later, finding the key left by the drunk servant, she slipped in.</p></details><details><summary><b>380</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person exploring a forbidden place sees signs that someone is imprisoned there, and runs straight into her employer.</summary><p class="sum">She found a barred, padlocked door and a shadow moving behind it; she ran in terror straight into her employer.</p></details><details><summary><b>381</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person caught snooping is soothed by her employer, then threatened with a terrible death if she ever does it again.</summary><p class="sum">He soothed her too sweetly, then threatened to throw her to the dog if she ever went in again.</p></details></section><section><h2>G08 · Waiting in the dark for them to come</h2>
<p class="pred">You are lying in wait in the dark for someone dangerous, and must keep still until the moment comes.</p>
<p class="meta">A watcher wants to catch them in the act from a dangerous intruder. · 5 scenes from 2 stories
(The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep still and wait for the signal. <span class='src'>from scene 58</span><br><code>nerve +</code></li><li>Strike the moment you hear them. <span class='src'>from scene 247</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.violent set</code></li><li>Keep your weapon ready and use it if they fight. <span class='src'>from scene 57</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.armed set</code></li><li>Show a light and scare them off. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>nerve -</code> <code>standing -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>57</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — Watchers hide in the dark to ambush dangerous thieves, knowing the thieves may fight their way out.</summary><p class="sum">They put out the light and hide behind crates, armed, waiting for thieves who may shoot.</p></details><details><summary><b>58</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — Someone lying in ambush must keep still through a long dark wait until the first sign of an intruder appears.</summary><p class="sum">After a long, tense wait a light appears and a hand gropes up through a crack in the floor.</p></details><details><summary><b>246</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — Two people keep a silent armed watch in a victim&#x27;s room, knowing any sound could warn a killer.</summary><p class="sum">They enter the grounds; a wild animal startles them; inside they sit in the dark, armed, in silence.</p></details><details><summary><b>247</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — Watchers waiting in the dark for a hidden killer finally hear it coming and must strike without seeing.</summary><p class="sum">After hours of waiting a lantern gleams through the ventilator and a hiss is heard; the investigator strikes at the rope.</p></details><details><summary><b>248</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A person who struck at a hidden danger hears it find its master instead.</summary><p class="sum">A terrible scream rings out from the next room; the investigator says it is all over.</p></details></section><section><h2>G09 · Someone dangerous is after the person you are helping</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone who came to you for help is being hunted by a dangerous person, and their safety depends on what you advise.</p>
<p class="meta">A protector wants to keep them safe from a dangerous pursuer. · 9 scenes from 3 stories
(The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Tell them to give the pursuer what he wants. <span class='src'>from scene 142</span><br><code>relationships.client +</code> <code>flags.gave_in set</code></li><li>Stay the night beside them. <span class='src'>from scene 242</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.client +</code></li><li>Send them home and promise to come if called. <span class='src'>from scene 143</span><br><code>relationships.client risk</code></li><li>Get them away to family. <span class='src'>from scene 237</span><br><code>relationships.family +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Face the pursuer down when he comes to your door. <span class='src'>from scene 234</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.pursuer -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>142</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A threatened person is told to give his pursuers what they want at once and to put revenge aside until he is safe.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator tells him to leave the surviving page in the box on the sundial with a note saying the rest were burned, and to take great care.</p></details><details><summary><b>143</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator sends a frightened client back out into danger alone, and begins to realise how grave it is.</summary><p class="sum">The young man leaves armed into the storm; the investigator says the danger is greater than any they have faced.</p></details><details><summary><b>146</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator realises too late that his client has no time left, because the enemy is already close.</summary><p class="sum">He deduces the senders are on a sailing ship, that the blow falls when they arrive, and that this time there will be no delay.</p></details><details><summary><b>233</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A violent man traces his stepdaughter to her helpers and demands to know what she told them.</summary><p class="sum">The stepfather bursts in, demanding what his stepdaughter said; the investigator answers with small talk.</p></details><details><summary><b>234</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A violent man threatens the people helping his victim, and they fear he will take it out on her.</summary><p class="sum">He bends a poker and threatens the investigator, who straightens it after he leaves and worries for the young woman.</p></details><details><summary><b>237</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman learns her violent guardian followed her in secret, and fears what he will do tonight.</summary><p class="sum">The young woman is terrified to learn her stepfather followed her; the investigator promises to protect her.</p></details><details><summary><b>242</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator tells a threatened person her life depends on following his instructions exactly tonight.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator, grim, tells her to signal them from her window, then hide in her old room.</p></details><details><summary><b>363</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An adviser warns that pay too good to be true hides something, but promises help if the job turns dangerous.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator says no sister of his should take it; the pay is suspiciously high; he promises to come if she is in danger.</p></details><details><summary><b>364</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — Helpers wait uneasily for news of someone who has gone into a situation they could not explain.</summary><p class="sum">She leaves cheerfully; the narrator and investigator wonder for a fortnight whether the man is a crank or a villain.</p></details></section><section><h2>G10 · Asked to act without being told why</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone you trust asks you to take a risk, perhaps break the law, without telling you what the plan is.</p>
<p class="meta">A loyal friend wants to help without being made a fool from the friend asking. · 6 scenes from 4 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Agree at once; you trust them. <span class='src'>from scene 19</span><br><code>relationships.friend +</code> <code>flags.broke_law set</code></li><li>Go, and bring a weapon. <span class='src'>from scene 52</span><br><code>nerve +</code></li><li>Do your part, though your conscience pricks. <span class='src'>from scene 24</span><br><code>relationships.friend +</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Ask to be told the whole plan first. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>relationships.friend -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>19</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A friend is asked to break the law for a cause he is told is good, without being told the whole plan.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator asks whether the narrator will break the law and risk arrest; he agrees, and is told to stand at a window and throw something in at a signal.</p></details><details><summary><b>20</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A helper agrees to a staged false alarm while his friend prepares a disguise meant to win a stranger&#x27;s sympathy.</summary><p class="sum">He is given a smoke device and instructions, and the investigator disguises himself as a mild, simple-minded clergyman.</p></details><details><summary><b>24</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A helper is ashamed to watch a kind woman tend a man who is deceiving her, and must choose loyalty or conscience.</summary><p class="sum">The kind woman has the injured man brought in; the narrator feels ashamed as she tends him, but hardens his heart to play his part.</p></details><details><summary><b>52</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A companion is asked to come armed on a night venture he does not understand, trusting a friend who will not explain.</summary><p class="sum">He asks the narrator to come armed; the narrator goes home puzzled, sensing the assistant is a dangerous man.</p></details><details><summary><b>244</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator explains that a victim&#x27;s bed was fixed in place so that she could never move out of harm&#x27;s way.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains he deduced the ventilator and notes the bed is clamped to the floor.</p></details><details><summary><b>383</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A frightened young woman is asked to take one more bold risk so that her helpers can get inside.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator asks if she can lock the female servant in the cellar that evening; she agrees.</p></details></section><section><h2>G11 · Someone close is not who they seem</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone you have welcomed close is not who they claim, and you have not yet let yourself notice the signs.</p>
<p class="meta">A trusting person wants to keep someone they value from a person hiding who they are. · 8 scenes from 3 stories
(The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Count yourself lucky and ask nothing. <span class='src'>from scene 36</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.intimate +</code></li><li>Keep them secret from the rest of your family. <span class='src'>from scene 72</span><br><code>relationships.intimate +</code> <code>relationships.family -</code></li><li>Trust your own doubts about them. <span class='src'>from scene 324</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.intimate -</code></li><li>Ask someone outside to look into them. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>money -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>36</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A small employer is grateful for a clever helper who works cheap, and never asks why the helper accepts so little.</summary><p class="sum">The client praises his assistant, who works for half wages and spends hours in the cellar, and recalls how the assistant first showed him the notice.</p></details><details><summary><b>47</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator realises a client&#x27;s trusted helper is not who he seems, while the client suspects nothing.</summary><p class="sum">The assistant&#x27;s description excites the investigator; after the client leaves he says the case needs prompt action.</p></details><details><summary><b>72</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A person is engaged to someone whose address and work she never learned, and sees nothing strange in it.</summary><p class="sum">She was engaged at once and wrote daily, but never learned where he worked or lived; he insisted her letters be handwritten and his were typed.</p></details><details><summary><b>73</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A trusting woman describes a suitor who avoided daylight and hid his face and voice, and sees only shyness.</summary><p class="sum">The suitor was shy, whispered, wore tinted glasses and preferred to walk after dark.</p></details><details><summary><b>74</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A young woman is rushed into a secret wedding, sworn to faithfulness, and urged by her own mother to tell no one.</summary><p class="sum">The suitor pressed a quick wedding while her stepfather was away, made her swear fidelity, and her mother backed him; her letter to her stepfather missed him.</p></details><details><summary><b>324</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A parent is charmed by a son&#x27;s dangerous friend, and trusts completely a young woman he raised as his own.</summary><p class="sum">The friend is fascinating but untrustworthy; his adopted niece is his loving right hand, though she twice refused the son.</p></details><details><summary><b>343</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A parent who wrongly accused his own child learns the real culprit was the person he trusted most.</summary><p class="sum">The banker is saved, but is told he owes his son an apology; the niece has fled with the son&#x27;s dangerous friend.</p></details><details><summary><b>344</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A trusting guardian learns his beloved ward was seduced into betraying him by a charming, heartless man.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator reveals the friend was a ruined, heartless gambler who seduced the niece into handing out the treasure.</p></details></section><section><h2>G12 · A stranger who will not give a true name</h2>
<p class="pred">A stranger wants your help but hides who they are, and you must decide whether to deal with them.</p>
<p class="meta">A person approached wants to know who they are dealing with from a stranger under a false name. · 4 scenes from 2 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Let them know you have already seen through it. <span class='src'>from scene 8</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.stranger -</code></li><li>Insist on the real name before going on. <span class='src'>from scene 210</span><br><code>relationships.stranger risk</code></li><li>Play along and help anyway. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money +</code></li><li>Refuse to deal with anyone who hides their face. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>standing +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>7</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A powerful stranger arrives disguised, needing help but unwilling to show who he is to people he cannot yet trust.</summary><p class="sum">A huge, richly dressed man in a mask enters and asks to be heard, unsure which of the two men to address.</p></details><details><summary><b>8</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A client hides behind a false name while asking for secrecy, and the investigator lets him know the pretence is already seen through.</summary><p class="sum">The visitor gives a false title, binds both men to secrecy and admits he acts for someone great; the investigator coolly says he already knew.</p></details><details><summary><b>209</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A frightened person desperate to recover something is offered help by a stranger, and hides his name.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator overtakes the little man, who is terrified, then eager for help; he gives a false name.</p></details><details><summary><b>210</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief hoping to recover his loot is led to believe help is at hand and walks into a trap.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator names the man as the hotel attendant; in his rooms he says the goose laid a blue egg.</p></details></section><section><h2>G13 · A powerful client needs your discretion</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone far above you needs a delicate favour kept quiet, and it is not the kind of request you can easily refuse.</p>
<p class="meta">A person of modest standing wants the reward without being used from a powerful client. · 5 scenes from 3 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Take their money and their secret. <span class='src'>from scene 12</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.patron +</code></li><li>Keep their confidences even from other grand names. <span class='src'>from scene 295</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.patron +</code></li><li>Name conditions of your own. <span class='src'>from scene 320 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.patron risk</code></li><li>Let them see you are not impressed. <span class='src'>from scene 30 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.patron -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>9</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A powerful man drops a disguise that fooled no one and must admit a past entanglement to a stranger he needs.</summary><p class="sum">The visitor tears off his mask and admits he is himself the royal client; years ago he became entangled with a famous adventuress.</p></details><details><summary><b>12</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator is paid lavishly in advance by a client desperate for quick results, and the watcher assumes success is certain.</summary><p class="sum">The client pays heavily in advance and leaves; next day the narrator waits for the investigator, confident he will not fail.</p></details><details><summary><b>287</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A proud, highly placed man must ask a stranger for help with a humiliating private matter.</summary><p class="sum">The noble client writes asking for an urgent meeting about a painful event at his wedding; the police are already involved.</p></details><details><summary><b>295</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A proud man who has been humiliated wants to be sure his helper will keep his secrets.</summary><p class="sum">The client feels cut to the quick; the investigator refuses to discuss other clients and begins questioning him.</p></details><details><summary><b>319</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A person of great standing asks a lender for a large secret loan rather than owe favours to friends.</summary><p class="sum">A client of the very highest rank asked for a large, urgent loan, preferring business to asking favours of friends.</p></details></section><section><h2>G14 · Holding something too valuable to lose</h2>
<p class="pred">Something far too valuable to replace has been left in your keeping, and you know someone may come for it.</p>
<p class="meta">A custodian wants to keep it safe from whoever wants it. · 7 scenes from 3 stories
(The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep it on you at all times. <span class='src'>from scene 322</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.carrying_valuables set</code></li><li>Lock it away and tell no one. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>cunning +</code></li><li>Tell your household about it. <span class='src'>from scene 325 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>relationships.family +</code> <code>flags.talked set</code></li><li>Return it at once and claim the reward. <span class='src'>from scene 197</span><br><code>money +</code></li><li>Set a trap for whoever comes for it. <span class='src'>from scene 57 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>nerve +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>55</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person whose property is at stake nearly spoils a trap by carelessness and is ordered to keep still.</summary><p class="sum">They reach the bank&#x27;s vault; the banker thumps the hollow floor and is sharply told to sit down and not interfere.</p></details><details><summary><b>56</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A guardian of valuables learns that thieves are about to strike and that his own careless talk drew them.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator checks the floor and explains they are in a bank vault holding a large reserve of borrowed gold.</p></details><details><summary><b>197</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A person of modest means suddenly finds a stolen treasure in his hands, with a large reward on offer.</summary><p class="sum">The finder&#x27;s wife found a famous stolen gem in the goose&#x27;s crop, worth a huge reward; a workman has been charged with stealing it.</p></details><details><summary><b>200</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator holding a stolen treasure must decide whether the man already accused of taking it is guilty.</summary><p class="sum">He keeps the stone, calling it a lure for crime, and doubts both the accused man&#x27;s guilt and the goose owner&#x27;s involvement.</p></details><details><summary><b>320</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A lender is asked to hold a priceless, irreplaceable treasure as security, and cannot politely refuse.</summary><p class="sum">As security he left a priceless national treasure, promising to reclaim it in four days.</p></details><details><summary><b>321</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A person entrusted with something irreplaceable realises too late how much he will lose if anything happens to it.</summary><p class="sum">The client stressed discretion and that any damage would cause a great public scandal; the banker regretted taking it.</p></details><details><summary><b>322</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A worried custodian takes a treasure home for safety, into a household he trusts completely.</summary><p class="sum">Fearing burglary, he carried it home and locked it in his bureau; he describes his trusted servants and a newer maid with admirers.</p></details></section><section><h2>G15 · The game is up</h2>
<p class="pred">You have been caught out in a deception, faced with proof, and must decide how to carry yourself now.</p>
<p class="meta">A deceiver wants to get off lightly from the person who caught them. · 9 scenes from 4 stories
(The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep your dignity and go quietly. <span class='src'>from scene 60</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.captor +</code></li><li>Insist nothing you did was against the law. <span class='src'>from scene 85</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Throw yourself on their mercy. <span class='src'>from scene 212</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.captor +</code></li><li>Make a run for it. <span class='src'>from scene 88 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.fugitive set</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>59</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A clever thief walks straight into an ambush and must decide whether to fight, flee or give in gracefully.</summary><p class="sum">The thieves climb up; the investigator seizes the leader and knocks his pistol away, while the accomplice flees into waiting arms.</p></details><details><summary><b>60</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A captured criminal clings to his dignity and birth even as he is led away in handcuffs.</summary><p class="sum">The captured criminal insists on being addressed with respect; the banker thanks the investigator, who asks only for his expenses.</p></details><details><summary><b>83</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A smooth relative who hoped a matter would be dropped is startled to hear the missing man will be found.</summary><p class="sum">The smooth stepfather says the girl should not have come and doubts the missing man can be found; he starts when told he will be.</p></details><details><summary><b>84</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A deceiver shown proof that his own letters match the ones he forged tries to leave and finds the door locked.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator shows the stepfather&#x27;s typed letters match the suitor&#x27;s machine; the man tries to leave and the door is locked on him.</p></details><details><summary><b>85</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A deceiver caught out pleads that nothing he did was against the law, and is told it was cruel all the same.</summary><p class="sum">The stepfather collapses, stammers that it is not a crime, and the investigator agrees but calls it heartless.</p></details><details><summary><b>87</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A deceiver hears his whole scheme laid out, then gathers his nerve and sneers because nothing can be proved against him.</summary><p class="sum">He staged a vanishing to bind her to a phantom for years; recovering, the stepfather sneers.</p></details><details><summary><b>183</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A respectable man living a secret double life is unmasked in custody and tries to bluster his way out.</summary><p class="sum">He washes the prisoner&#x27;s face and reveals the missing man; the man claims that since no crime occurred he is illegally held.</p></details><details><summary><b>211</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief is shown the stolen treasure and told his guilt is known, with no way left to deny it.</summary><p class="sum">Shown the gem, the attendant nearly collapses; the investigator says the game is up.</p></details><details><summary><b>212</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief who framed an innocent man for his crime begs for mercy and offers to run away.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator reveals the attendant framed the workman; the thief begs for mercy for his parents&#x27; sake and offers to flee.</p></details></section><section><h2>G16 · Mercy or the law</h2>
<p class="pred">You have caught someone who did wrong, and handing them over would be lawful but not what you think is just.</p>
<p class="meta">A person holding the truth wants justice as they see it from the culprit. · 9 scenes from 5 stories
(A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Let them go if they swear never to do it again. <span class='src'>from scene 216</span><br><code>relationships.culprit +</code> <code>flags.spared_culprit set</code></li><li>Keep their confession back unless an innocent needs it. <span class='src'>from scene 120</span><br><code>relationships.culprit +</code> <code>flags.secret_kept set</code></li><li>Hand them to the authorities. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.authority +</code> <code>relationships.culprit -</code></li><li>Punish them yourself. <span class='src'>from scene 88</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.violent set</code></li><li>Trade your silence for what they took. <span class='src'>from scene 351</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.authority risk</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>82</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — An investigator has found the culprit and knows the law cannot punish him for what he did.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator says the matter is solved but no law can touch the culprit; the stepfather arrives.</p></details><details><summary><b>88</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — An investigator faces a cruel deceiver the law cannot touch and is tempted to punish him with his own hands.</summary><p class="sum">He warns the investigator he is the one breaking the law by locking the door; the investigator reaches for a whip and the man flees.</p></details><details><summary><b>120</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator bound only to his client offers a dying culprit a signed confession to use only if an innocent is condemned.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator, not bound to the police, takes a signed confession to use only if needed; the old man begins his story of being in the dead man&#x27;s power.</p></details><details><summary><b>125</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator chooses mercy over the law, keeping a dying culprit&#x27;s secret as long as the innocent goes free.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator decides to keep the confession secret unless the son is condemned; the son is acquitted and the old man dies months later.</p></details><details><summary><b>184</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A man exposed in a shameful secret life is offered discretion if he makes a full confession to the authorities.</summary><p class="sum">The man groans that he hid for his children&#x27;s sake; the investigator offers to keep it out of court and the papers.</p></details><details><summary><b>188</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person caught in a shameful double life is allowed to keep his secret only by swearing to give it up forever.</summary><p class="sum">He sent a note to his wife that was delayed; the police agree to hush it up if he gives up begging for good.</p></details><details><summary><b>216</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief who sacrificed his honour for loot he never held breaks down, and is let go.</summary><p class="sum">The goose held no stone; the flock was sold on and he could not trace it; he sobs that he is a thief with nothing; the investigator tells him to get out.</p></details><details><summary><b>217</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator lets a frightened first offender go free, choosing mercy over the law he is not paid to enforce.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator reasons the case against the workman will collapse, and that jail would make the thief a criminal for life.</p></details><details><summary><b>351</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator bargains with a thief, trading the promise of no prosecution for the return of what was stolen.</summary><p class="sum">He confronted the thief at gunpoint, promised no prosecution, and bought the stones back from a receiver.</p></details></section><section><h2>G17 · Someone close has vanished</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone close to you has vanished without a word, and everyone around you has a different idea of why.</p>
<p class="meta">A person left behind wants to know what happened from the missing person. · 10 scenes from 4 stories
(A Case of Identity, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Go to the authorities at once. <span class='src'>from scene 166</span><br><code>relationships.authority +</code></li><li>Pay someone to find them. <span class='src'>from scene 68</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.investigator +</code></li><li>Hush it up. <span class='src'>from scene 292 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>standing risk</code></li><li>Decide they must have lost their mind. <span class='src'>from scene 300</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.missing -</code></li><li>Wait for word. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>relationships.missing +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>68</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A young woman whose fiancé has vanished defies a relative who wants her to drop it, and seeks help alone.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator startles the woman by reading her work from her hands; she says she would give her income to know what became of her missing fiancé, and that her stepfather would do nothing.</p></details><details><summary><b>75</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A bride is left waiting at the altar when her groom vanishes, and chooses to believe he was taken rather than fled.</summary><p class="sum">On the wedding morning the groom vanished from a closed cab; she believes some danger took him and that he will claim her.</p></details><details><summary><b>165</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A spouse glimpses her partner in a place he should never be, in distress, before he vanishes from sight.</summary><p class="sum">The wife saw her husband at the den&#x27;s upper window, agitated and half-dressed, before he was pulled or leapt back.</p></details><details><summary><b>166</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A spouse is told she imagined seeing her partner, until she finds the proof he was really there.</summary><p class="sum">She was thrown out of the den, fetched the police, and found only a crippled beggar there, until she found the toy her husband had promised.</p></details><details><summary><b>174</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person waiting for word of a missing partner meets her helpers at the door and learns there is no news.</summary><p class="sum">The wife runs out hoping for news and is told there is none, good or bad; she greets them warmly.</p></details><details><summary><b>175</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator gives a waiting spouse his honest belief that her partner is dead, and she shows him proof he is wrong.</summary><p class="sum">She asks for his honest opinion, and he says her husband is dead; she then produces a letter from him received that day.</p></details><details><summary><b>291</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A bride vanishes from her own wedding breakfast, leaving her groom and family in public humiliation.</summary><p class="sum">The quiet wedding took place, but the bride vanished during the wedding breakfast.</p></details><details><summary><b>300</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A proud man can only explain his bride&#x27;s flight by supposing she lost her mind rather than rejected him.</summary><p class="sum">He suggests the social strain unbalanced his wife; the investigator says he has solved the case, and the client is sceptical.</p></details><details><summary><b>341</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A person who has lost his reputation and his son now learns he has lost the one he trusted most as well.</summary><p class="sum">Next morning the banker, aged by grief, reports his niece has deserted him.</p></details><details><summary><b>342</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A guardian is left a note by a ward who has fled, and fears the worst.</summary><p class="sum">Her note says she brought trouble on him and has gone; the investigator produces the missing stones for a fee.</p></details></section><section><h2>G18 · Keeping faith when everyone says give up</h2>
<p class="pred">Everyone tells you to give up on someone you love, and you are sure they are wrong about them.</p>
<p class="meta">A loyal person wants to be proved right from everyone who has given up. · 5 scenes from 3 stories
(A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Man with the Twisted Lip) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Refuse to give up on them. <span class='src'>from scene 77</span><br><code>relationships.faithful +</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Tell what you know, even if it embarrasses you. <span class='src'>from scene 104</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.faithful +</code></li><li>Bring in outside help. <span class='src'>from scene 95 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.investigator +</code></li><li>Accept what everyone says and move on. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>relationships.faithful -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>76</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A jilted woman is told by everyone, even her helper, to forget a man she has sworn to wait for.</summary><p class="sum">Her mother forbade her to speak of it; her stepfather agreed something happened; she sobs, and the investigator advises her to forget the man.</p></details><details><summary><b>77</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A deceived woman refuses advice to forget and vows to keep faith with someone who will never return.</summary><p class="sum">She refuses to forget and swears to stay true; the investigator says the case is trite but the woman herself was interesting.</p></details><details><summary><b>103</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A loyal friend of an accused man insists on his innocence to investigators who think the case already closed.</summary><p class="sum">The officer thinks the case plain; the accused&#x27;s childhood friend bursts in insisting he is innocent.</p></details><details><summary><b>104</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — Someone defending an accused friend reveals a private family quarrel she was part of, hoping it will help him.</summary><p class="sum">The young woman reveals the quarrel was about the father&#x27;s wish that the two marry, which neither the son nor her own father wanted.</p></details><details><summary><b>177</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A spouse trusts her own certainty that her partner is alive, while her helper warns the proof may be forged.</summary><p class="sum">The note asks her to wait in patience; he warns it may be forged or old; she insists she would sense if he were dead.</p></details></section><section><h2>G19 · A guardian who lives on your money</h2>
<p class="pred">The relative who controls your money would lose it if you married, and is doing everything to keep you single.</p>
<p class="meta">A dependent wants their own life and money from a guardian. · 7 scenes from 3 stories
(A Case of Identity, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Leave your money in their hands to keep the peace. <span class='src'>from scene 70</span><br><code>relationships.guardian +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Go out anyway, against their wishes. <span class='src'>from scene 71</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.guardian -</code></li><li>Refuse to sign it over. <span class='src'>from scene 388</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.guardian -</code> <code>flags.in_danger set</code></li><li>Marry, and claim what is yours. <span class='src'>from scene 230 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.guardian -</code></li><li>Have someone outside the family read the terms. <span class='src'>from scene 235</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>money -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>69</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A young woman with a small fortune of her own explains a household where a new relative controls the money.</summary><p class="sum">She explains her young stepfather, her mother&#x27;s remarriage and the sale of her father&#x27;s business; she has a separate income of her own.</p></details><details><summary><b>70</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A young woman hands her own income to the family she lives with, never asking who really benefits.</summary><p class="sum">She lets her family draw her income while she lives at home, and supports herself by her own work.</p></details><details><summary><b>71</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A young woman defies a controlling relative to go out, meets a suitor, and must see him in secret.</summary><p class="sum">Against her stepfather&#x27;s wishes she went to a ball while he was abroad and met a shy suitor, who then could not call once her stepfather returned.</p></details><details><summary><b>86</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A person who posed as a suitor to keep a relative&#x27;s money in the family is exposed and pleads it was a joke.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains the stepfather courted the girl in disguise to keep her unmarried and keep her income; he pleads it began as a joke.</p></details><details><summary><b>224</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman depends on a violent relative who controls her money and loses it if she marries.</summary><p class="sum">The mother&#x27;s money passes to the stepfather unless the daughters marry; he has become a violent recluse, feared by the village.</p></details><details><summary><b>235</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator finds that a guardian stands to lose most of his income if his ward marries.</summary><p class="sum">The will shows each daughter&#x27;s marriage would cut the stepfather&#x27;s income badly, giving him a strong motive.</p></details><details><summary><b>388</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A household insider reveals that a parent imprisoned his own child to keep control of her money when she wished to marry.</summary><p class="sum">The servant explains the daughter&#x27;s father wanted control of her money and imprisoned her when a suitor appeared.</p></details></section><section><h2>G20 · Everyone has decided, and you think they are wrong</h2>
<p class="pred">The people in charge have settled on an answer, and you are almost alone in thinking it cannot be true.</p>
<p class="meta">A doubter wants the real answer from the officials in charge. · 13 scenes from 4 stories
(The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Assume the accused is telling the truth and see where it leads. <span class='src'>from scene 102</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.authority -</code></li><li>Give the officials your answer and let them ignore it. <span class='src'>from scene 115</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.authority -</code></li><li>Mock their theory to their face. <span class='src'>from scene 301</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.authority -</code></li><li>Point out that their theory asks the impossible. <span class='src'>from scene 332</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>relationships.client +</code></li><li>Go along with the official view. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>relationships.authority +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>95</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An accused man&#x27;s case looks hopeless to everyone except one loyal friend who has brought in outside help.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator thinks the case damning; the investigator warns circumstantial evidence can point two ways, and that a young woman believes the son innocent.</p></details><details><summary><b>97</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator must decide whether a suspect&#x27;s calm acceptance of arrest shows guilt or a clear conscience.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator reads the remark as the natural self-reproach of an innocent son who had quarrelled with his father.</p></details><details><summary><b>102</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator chooses to believe an accused man&#x27;s unlikely story and test where it leads, against official opinion.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator says the odd details favour the son and resolves to assume his story is true; at the country town a sly police officer meets them.</p></details><details><summary><b>110</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator suspects a poor man had some hold over the rich neighbour who helped him, while an official mocks theories.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator finds it odd the poor tenant expected to marry his son to his rich patron&#x27;s heiress; the officer mocks theories.</p></details><details><summary><b>115</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator describes a culprit in detail, and the official in charge refuses to go looking for him.</summary><p class="sum">He tells the officer the stone was the weapon and describes the killer in detail; the officer scoffs at theories.</p></details><details><summary><b>116</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator knows who is guilty and is troubled about what to do with the knowledge.</summary><p class="sum">The officer refuses to hunt for such a man; the investigator is troubled and asks the narrator&#x27;s advice.</p></details><details><summary><b>172</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — Investigators build a plausible theory of a murder that fits every fact and is entirely wrong.</summary><p class="sum">The coat&#x27;s pockets were stuffed with coins; the police theorise the beggar weighted it to sink with the body.</p></details><details><summary><b>301</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An official sure of a tragedy searches for a body, while the investigator is sure there is none to find.</summary><p class="sum">A police officer arrives having dragged a lake for the bride&#x27;s body; the investigator laughs at him.</p></details><details><summary><b>302</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An official holds evidence he is sure proves a suspect guilty, and scorns a rival&#x27;s theory as impractical.</summary><p class="sum">The officer produces the wedding dress and ring found in the water, and says they implicate the arrested woman.</p></details><details><summary><b>303</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An official triumphantly shows proof against his suspect, and misses the clue written on its back.</summary><p class="sum">A note in the dress, signed with initials, seems to prove a lure; the investigator is interested in the hotel bill on the back.</p></details><details><summary><b>304</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An investigator tells a sceptical rival the truth in a riddle, and is taken for a madman.</summary><p class="sum">The officer storms off; the investigator tells him the bride never existed as the client&#x27;s wife, and goes out; a lavish supper for five is delivered.</p></details><details><summary><b>331</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator notices an accused man&#x27;s silence could mean innocence as easily as guilt.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator doubts the son&#x27;s guilt, noting his silence cuts both ways and the police theory makes no sense.</p></details><details><summary><b>332</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator points out that the theory everyone believes asks the accused to have done something absurd.</summary><p class="sum">He lays out how implausible the father&#x27;s theory is and proposes going to the house.</p></details></section><section><h2>G21 · A frightened stranger at your door</h2>
<p class="pred">A frightened stranger with nobody else to turn to arrives asking for help, and may not be able to pay.</p>
<p class="meta">A helper wants to do right without being dragged under from a stranger in trouble. · 10 scenes from 7 stories
(A Case of Identity, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Take it on, pay or no pay. <span class='src'>from scene 221</span><br><code>relationships.client +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Calm them before you ask anything. <span class='src'>from scene 317</span><br><code>relationships.client +</code></li><li>Go yourself, rather than let them go. <span class='src'>from scene 156 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.client +</code></li><li>Name your fee first. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.client -</code></li><li>Tell them it is none of your business. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>relationships.client -</code> <code>standing -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>67</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A hesitant stranger works up her nerve to bring a private trouble to people she does not know.</summary><p class="sum">A large, nervous woman hesitates on the pavement before hurrying to the door; the investigator reads it as a perplexed love affair.</p></details><details><summary><b>129</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A frightened young man seeks help from a stranger he has been told never fails, and hears that he sometimes does.</summary><p class="sum">A pale, anxious young man arrives from the country, asking for help and noting the investigator&#x27;s reputation; he is told the investigator has been beaten four times.</p></details><details><summary><b>154</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A frightened spouse turns up late at a friend&#x27;s door in tears, needing help she cannot get anywhere else.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator recalls an addicted friend; late one night the addict&#x27;s wife bursts in, veiled and sobbing, to the narrator&#x27;s wife.</p></details><details><summary><b>155</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A spouse knows where her addicted partner is hiding but cannot bring herself to go into that place to fetch him.</summary><p class="sum">The wife explains her husband has been missing in a drug den for two days, and she cannot go in after him herself.</p></details><details><summary><b>219</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A frightened visitor arrives before dawn, too afraid to wait, to beg strangers for help.</summary><p class="sum">A terrified young woman in black has arrived early; she says she shivers not from cold but fear.</p></details><details><summary><b>221</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A frightened young woman with no money of her own asks for help she can only repay once she is free.</summary><p class="sum">She has no one to help her but a fiancé who can do little; she offers to pay once she marries and controls her own money.</p></details><details><summary><b>255</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A young man who has just survived something terrible holds himself together until relief makes him break down.</summary><p class="sum">A pale young engineer with a bloodied hand explains he had an accident, then breaks into hysterical laughter.</p></details><details><summary><b>317</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A person overwhelmed by sudden disaster can barely speak, and fears he will be taken for mad.</summary><p class="sum">The man bursts in, beats his head against the wall in despair, and is calmed by the investigator.</p></details><details><summary><b>318</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A respected person facing public disgrace and private grief at once must explain himself to a stranger.</summary><p class="sum">He is a leading banker; public disgrace and private grief have struck together, and people of the highest rank may suffer.</p></details><details><summary><b>356</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A young person alone in the world, with no one to advise her, asks strangers whether to accept a strange offer.</summary><p class="sum">The young woman asks whether she should accept a post; she has no family to advise her.</p></details></section><section><h2>G22 · Read at a glance</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone you barely know tells you private things about your life, read from signs you never knew you gave.</p>
<p class="meta">A person read wants to keep some privacy from a sharp-eyed stranger. · 5 scenes from 3 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Ask how it was done. <span class='src'>from scene 3</span><br><code>relationships.observer +</code></li><li>Decide it was nothing clever after all. <span class='src'>from scene 34</span><br><code>relationships.observer -</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Grow wary of what else they can see. <span class='src'>from scene 220</span><br><code>observation +</code></li><li>Laugh and take it in good part. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>relationships.observer +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>2</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — Someone drops in on an old friend after a long gap and finds himself read at a glance, unsure of his welcome.</summary><p class="sum">Passing his friend&#x27;s old rooms, the narrator calls in on impulse; the investigator greets him quietly and reads from his looks that he has married and gone back to work.</p></details><details><summary><b>3</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A person is unsettled to find that a companion can read the private details of his life from small signs.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains how he knew the narrator had been out in bad weather and has a careless servant, and that he is back in practice.</p></details><details><summary><b>33</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A plain, slow client is startled when a stranger reads his whole history off his clothes and hands.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator can read nothing from the commonplace client; the investigator lists his past labour, his lodge, his travels and his recent writing.</p></details><details><summary><b>34</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — Someone who explains how he knows things finds his cleverness dismissed as obvious once the trick is shown.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains his reasoning, and the client decides it was nothing clever after all; he produces the newspaper notice that began it all.</p></details><details><summary><b>220</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A frightened young woman is startled when a stranger reads her whole journey from small signs.</summary><p class="sum">Her face is haggard and grey; the investigator reads her early journey from her ticket and mud splashes.</p></details></section><section><h2>G23 · Tested by someone sharper</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone sharper than you asks what you noticed, in front of others, and you know you have missed the point.</p>
<p class="meta">A companion wants not to look a fool from a sharper mentor. · 6 scenes from 3 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Describe everything you saw and hope it is enough. <span class='src'>from scene 78</span><br><code>observation +</code></li><li>Admit you can see nothing. <span class='src'>from scene 193</span><br><code>relationships.mentor +</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Call the whole thing a waste of effort. <span class='src'>from scene 196</span><br><code>relationships.mentor -</code></li><li>Work it out yourself while they are away. <span class='src'>from scene 106 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>observation +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>4</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A person is shown up as seeing without noticing, just as an unsigned message raises a question worth answering.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator admits he sees but does not observe; the investigator hands him an anonymous note that arrived by the last post.</p></details><details><summary><b>78</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A companion is tested on what he noticed and must describe a stranger without knowing what matters.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator asks the narrator what he noticed about her dress; the narrator lists colours and details.</p></details><details><summary><b>79</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A person learns he looked at everything and noticed nothing, and is shown how to read haste in a stranger.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator praises the method but notes what was missed: her work marks, short sight, and odd, half-buttoned boots that show haste.</p></details><details><summary><b>193</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A person is shown how much a stranger&#x27;s decline can be read from one shabby thing he left behind.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator sees nothing; the investigator infers the owner is clever, fallen on hard times, perhaps drinking, and no longer loved by his wife.</p></details><details><summary><b>194</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — Someone is told a stranger&#x27;s whole history from a single object, and doubts it until each step is explained.</summary><p class="sum">He adds the owner is sedentary, middle-aged, recently barbered, and explains the hat&#x27;s size and age.</p></details><details><summary><b>196</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A person scoffs that a puzzle without a crime is wasted effort, just as it turns into something serious.</summary><p class="sum">He explains the wife and candle inferences; the narrator calls it wasted effort, when the finder bursts in about the goose.</p></details></section><section><h2>G24 · Going among them in disguise</h2>
<p class="pred">To learn what you need, you must pass among strangers as someone humbler than you are, and not be recognised.</p>
<p class="meta">A person in disguise wants information from the people being watched. · 7 scenes from 3 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Pass yourself off as someone out of work. <span class='src'>from scene 14</span><br><code>observation +</code> <code>cunning +</code></li><li>Fake an injury to be let in. <span class='src'>from scene 23</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>relationships.target -</code></li><li>Sit among them in plain sight. <span class='src'>from scene 159</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Buy what you need from someone in their household. <span class='src'>from scene 350</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>observation +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>13</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator comes back from watching a house in disguise, with a surprise he can hardly tell for laughing.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator returns disguised as a drunken stable-hand and collapses laughing at how his morning ended.</p></details><details><summary><b>14</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator poses as a humble out-of-work stranger to learn a target&#x27;s habits from the people who serve her.</summary><p class="sum">Disguised as an out-of-work groom, he studied the woman&#x27;s house and gathered gossip from the stablemen.</p></details><details><summary><b>23</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A stranger fakes an injury defending a woman, trading on her decency to be carried into her home.</summary><p class="sum">A staged street brawl breaks out as she arrives; the disguised investigator falls, apparently bleeding, while defending her.</p></details><details><summary><b>159</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — Someone on a rescue errand is secretly signalled by a disguised friend who must not be recognised.</summary><p class="sum">An old man by the brazier whispers to him; it is the investigator in disguise, who asks him to get rid of his friend.</p></details><details><summary><b>161</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator risks his life in disguise among enemies who would kill him if they knew him.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains the den&#x27;s owner has sworn revenge on him, and that a missing man may have been murdered there.</p></details><details><summary><b>339</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator is given a free hand and unlimited money to recover a treasure quietly.</summary><p class="sum">He gets a free hand to recover the gems at any cost, and goes out disguised as a loafer.</p></details><details><summary><b>350</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator confirms a suspect&#x27;s guilt through the suspect&#x27;s own household and a pair of old shoes, without alerting him.</summary><p class="sum">He identified her lover as the dangerous friend, confirmed it through the friend&#x27;s servant and cast-off shoes.</p></details></section><section><h2>G25 · A secret life behind the respectable one</h2>
<p class="pred">Behind the life everyone sees, you keep another one secret from the people closest to you.</p>
<p class="meta">A person with a double life wants to keep both lives from the family who do not know. · 5 scenes from 3 stories
(The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep the two lives apart and say nothing. <span class='src'>from scene 186</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>flags.double_life set</code></li><li>Confess it to the one person it would hurt most. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>relationships.spouse risk</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Give it up and swear never to go back. <span class='src'>from scene 188 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>money -</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Wait for the secret to solve itself. <span class='src'>from scene 108</span><br><code>relationships.spouse -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>108</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A young man hid a disastrous secret marriage from a harsh father who pressed him to marry someone else.</summary><p class="sum">The son had secretly married unwisely, so could not propose to the woman he loved; that secret wife has now abandoned him.</p></details><details><summary><b>122</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A reformed man who built a respectable life on stolen money meets the one witness who can expose him.</summary><p class="sum">He robbed a gold convoy but spared a driver who memorised his face, then went home rich, reformed and raised a daughter.</p></details><details><summary><b>185</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person confesses that a disguise first used for honest reasons became the easy answer to money trouble.</summary><p class="sum">He confesses that as a journalist he posed as a beggar for a story, then used it to pay a debt.</p></details><details><summary><b>186</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person earning well by a shameful secret trade builds a respectable life on it, keeping the truth even from his spouse.</summary><p class="sum">Begging paid far better than honest work, so he gave up his trade, married and lived well, his wife never knowing.</p></details><details><summary><b>307</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A person who secretly married someone her family forbade must explain it to the one she has since wed.</summary><p class="sum">She explains she was secretly married years ago to a poor prospector her rich father rejected, and pledged to wait for him.</p></details></section><section><h2>G26 · Letting someone else take the blame</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone else is suspected of what you did, and you could keep suspicion where it is.</p>
<p class="meta">A person at fault wants to escape blame from the one suspected. · 5 scenes from 3 stories
(The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet) · stage <b>high</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Speak up to save them. <span class='src'>from scene 119</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.accused +</code></li><li>Point at someone else. <span class='src'>from scene 326</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>relationships.accused -</code> <code>flags.guilty_secret set</code></li><li>Plead for the whole matter to be dropped. <span class='src'>from scene 335</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>relationships.family risk</code></li><li>Run, and let the case against them collapse. <span class='src'>from scene 212 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>flags.fugitive set</code> <code>relationships.accused +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>119</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A dying man guilty of a killing would confess to save the innocent accused, but dreads what it will do to his child.</summary><p class="sum">The dying rich neighbour arrives and admits he knows why; he would have spoken if the son were convicted, but fears for his daughter.</p></details><details><summary><b>213</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief who has framed someone else is too frightened to keep the loot on him, and must hide it quickly.</summary><p class="sum">He confesses he took the stone to his sister&#x27;s house, terrified of being searched on the way.</p></details><details><summary><b>326</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A trusted young woman, caught at an open window at night, points out someone else&#x27;s secret meeting instead.</summary><p class="sum">He checked the treasure; his niece, closing a window, reported that a maid had slipped out to meet someone.</p></details><details><summary><b>335</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A person pleads for a matter to be dropped entirely, which would also bury her own part in it.</summary><p class="sum">She insists the son is innocent and asks that the matter be dropped; the investigator agrees he is innocent.</p></details><details><summary><b>336</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A person offering a convenient alternative suspect is startled when the investigator knows more than she said.</summary><p class="sum">She confirms the maid&#x27;s meeting with a man; the investigator surprises her by knowing he has a wooden leg.</p></details></section><section><h2>G27 · Living with someone dangerous</h2>
<p class="pred">You live under the roof of someone violent who controls your life, and must decide how far to shield or defy them.</p>
<p class="meta">A dependent wants to be safe from a violent head of household. · 4 scenes from 2 stories
(The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Pay to cover up their violence. <span class='src'>from scene 225</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.household +</code></li><li>Make excuses for them. <span class='src'>from scene 231</span><br><code>relationships.household +</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Slip out and send for help. <span class='src'>from scene 382</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.household risk</code></li><li>Lock your door at night. <span class='src'>from scene 227 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>nerve -</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>223</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman lives under the roof of a relative with a violent past and a ruined fortune.</summary><p class="sum">The family fortune is gone; the stepfather made a career abroad but killed a servant in rage and was imprisoned.</p></details><details><summary><b>225</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman pays to cover up a violent relative&#x27;s attacks, and lives in fear under his roof.</summary><p class="sum">He threw a smith into a stream; the daughter paid to hush it up; he keeps wild animals and wanderers on his land, and the sisters lived in fear.</p></details><details><summary><b>231</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A frightened young woman shields the violent relative who hurt her, even while asking for help against him.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator reveals bruises on her wrist; she excuses her stepfather; they plan to inspect the rooms while he is away.</p></details><details><summary><b>382</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person frightened of everyone in the house she lives in secretly sends for help and returns to wait.</summary><p class="sum">Terrified, she telegraphed the investigator, and came to town while her employers go out that evening.</p></details></section><section><h2>G28 · They called it an accident</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone close to you died, it was ruled an accident, and you cannot shake the belief that it was nothing of the kind.</p>
<p class="meta">A survivor wants the truth from the official verdict. · 3 scenes from 2 stories
(The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure of the Speckled Band) · stage <b>middle</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Accept the verdict. <span class='src'>archetype</span><br><code>relationships.authority +</code></li><li>Keep looking for proof yourself. <span class='src'>from scene 139</span><br><code>observation +</code></li><li>Take it to someone outside the official inquiry. <span class='src'>from scene 230 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.investigator +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>136</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A threatened man is found dead in what is called suicide, and only his relative doubts the verdict.</summary><p class="sum">The uncle was found drowned in a shallow garden pool; the verdict was suicide, though the nephew doubted it; his father inherited.</p></details><details><summary><b>139</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A young heir is sure his relative was murdered, but every sign says it was an accident.</summary><p class="sum">The father died days later in a fall into an unfenced pit, ruled an accident; the son inherited, convinced it was murder but unable to prove it.</p></details><details><summary><b>229</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A death no one can explain is put down to fright, and the only witness cannot swear to what she heard.</summary><p class="sum">The inquiry found the room sealed and no cause of death; she believes her sister died of fright.</p></details></section><section><h2>G29 · Arriving too late</h2>
<p class="pred">You arrive to act at last, and find the person you were after has already slipped away or struck.</p>
<p class="meta">A pursuer wants to catch them from the quarry. · 6 scenes from 4 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Make it personal and go after them yourself. <span class='src'>from scene 151</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>relationships.quarry -</code></li><li>Search what they left behind. <span class='src'>from scene 28</span><br><code>observation +</code></li><li>Admit you were beaten. <span class='src'>from scene 30 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>standing -</code></li><li>Send word ahead to have them stopped. <span class='src'>from scene 153 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>cunning +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>28</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator arrives to collect his prize and finds his quarry has seen through him and fled first.</summary><p class="sum">At the house they learn she has fled abroad with her husband; the hiding place holds only a portrait of her and a letter.</p></details><details><summary><b>150</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator learns that the client he sent home with advice was killed that same night.</summary><p class="sum">The newspaper reports the young man drowned near the river that night, ruled an accident.</p></details><details><summary><b>151</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator who sent a client to his death takes it personally and vows to catch the killers himself.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator&#x27;s pride is hurt; he vows to catch the gang himself without the police, and returns late, starved but successful.</p></details><details><summary><b>282</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — Pursuers arrive to find the criminals&#x27; hideout burning and their quarry likely gone.</summary><p class="sum">On arrival they find the house ablaze; the engineer recognises it.</p></details><details><summary><b>283</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — Criminals escape with their goods while the hideout burns, and the one witness is left with nothing.</summary><p class="sum">The lamp crushed in the machine started the fire; the gang has fled without a trace.</p></details><details><summary><b>386</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — Rescuers find the prisoner gone and are caught by her jailer, who goes to set a savage beast on them.</summary><p class="sum">The room is empty, the prisoner taken through the skylight; the employer returns, calls them thieves and runs for the dog.</p></details></section><section><h2>G30 · Getting them to give it away</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone is hiding what you need to know, and you must get them to reveal it without realising they have.</p>
<p class="meta">A questioner wants the hidden fact from someone keeping it back. · 6 scenes from 3 stories
(A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Stage an alarm and watch where they run. <span class='src'>from scene 26</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>relationships.target -</code></li><li>Call on a pretext and look for one sign. <span class='src'>from scene 49</span><br><code>observation +</code></li><li>Draw them into a bet. <span class='src'>from scene 206</span><br><code>cunning +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Set a small test and watch how they react. <span class='src'>from scene 201</span><br><code>observation +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>22</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator decides to trick his quarry into revealing where she has hidden what he has come to take.</summary><p class="sum">He reasons the proof must be in her own house and says he will not search but make her show him.</p></details><details><summary><b>26</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator has tricked his quarry into showing her hiding place but holds back because someone is watching him closely.</summary><p class="sum">The false alarm made the woman rush to the hiding place; the investigator saw it but did not take the proof, since her servant was watching him.</p></details><details><summary><b>49</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator calls at a suspect&#x27;s door on a pretext, to look for one telltale sign without alerting him.</summary><p class="sum">He inspects the shop, raps the pavement and asks the assistant for directions, only to look at the knees of his trousers.</p></details><details><summary><b>201</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator sets a small test to learn whether a stranger knows more than he seems to about a stolen treasure.</summary><p class="sum">He thinks the goose&#x27;s owner innocent; that evening the man arrives and claims his hat.</p></details><details><summary><b>206</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — Someone who refuses to answer questions is drawn into giving everything away by the chance to win a bet.</summary><p class="sum">The dealer is sick of questions about the geese; the investigator draws him with a bet that the birds were country bred.</p></details><details><summary><b>207</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator loses a small wager on purpose and gets exactly the information he needed.</summary><p class="sum">The dealer&#x27;s books show the geese came from a woman in town; the investigator pays up and laughs.</p></details></section><section><h2>G31 · You were only a pawn</h2>
<p class="pred">You begin to see that you were hired or befriended only to serve someone else&#x27;s hidden scheme.</p>
<p class="meta">A person used wants to understand, and get even or get clear from whoever used them. · 7 scenes from 3 stories
(The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Go after the people who used you. <span class='src'>from scene 46</span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Count what you were paid and let it go. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money +</code></li><li>Keep quiet about what you know until you are safe. <span class='src'>from scene 377</span><br><code>cunning +</code></li><li>Confront them with it. <span class='src'>from scene 274 <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span></span><br><code>nerve +</code> <code>flags.in_danger set</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>44</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person who has grown comfortable on easy money finds it cut off without warning or explanation.</summary><p class="sum">Weeks pass with pay every Saturday until one morning the door is locked with a notice saying the fund is dissolved.</p></details><details><summary><b>45</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person left stranded by a vanished employer finds every name and address he was given was false.</summary><p class="sum">The client is stung by their laughter; he describes chasing the vanished manager through false names and addresses.</p></details><details><summary><b>46</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person who has lost easy money wants to know who fooled him, and does not yet suspect the helper he trusts.</summary><p class="sum">The client wants to know who played this trick on him; the investigator questions him closely about how his assistant came to him.</p></details><details><summary><b>273</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person hired for a job discovers his employers lied to him, and is caught looking where he should not.</summary><p class="sum">He finds the fault, but sees the story was false and scrapes at a metal crust on the floor; the client catches him.</p></details><details><summary><b>374</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person who secretly finds out she is being used to deceive someone is made to send the watcher away.</summary><p class="sum">With a hidden mirror she sees a man on the road watching; the wife sees her and has her wave him away.</p></details><details><summary><b>377</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A newcomer finds a trace of someone who was here before her, someone who looked exactly like her.</summary><p class="sum">In a locked drawer she found a coil of hair exactly like her own cut hair.</p></details><details><summary><b>384</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person realises she was hired to impersonate a captive, so that the captive&#x27;s friends would give up on her.</summary><p class="sum">He reasons she was hired to impersonate the daughter, who is imprisoned, so her faithful suitor will think she no longer wants him.</p></details></section><section><h2>G32 · Someone on the inside helps you get away</h2>
<p class="pred">Someone inside a dangerous household warns you or helps you escape, at a risk to themselves.</p>
<p class="meta">A person in danger wants to get out alive from an insider who helps. · 5 scenes from 2 stories
(The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) · stage <b>low</b></p>
<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Heed the warning and go. <span class='src'>from scene 276</span><br><code>relationships.insider +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Ignore it and stay for the fee. <span class='src'>from scene 270</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>flags.in_danger set</code></li><li>Wait to see they are not hurt for helping you. <span class='src'>from scene 277</span><br><code>relationships.insider +</code> <code>nerve +</code></li><li>Pay the household to look the other way. <span class='src'>from scene 389</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.household +</code></li></ol>
<h3>Scenes</h3><details><summary><b>270</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A stranger urgently warns a newcomer to flee, and he refuses because leaving would cost him the money.</summary><p class="sum">She begs him to leave before it is too late; he refuses because of the fee; footsteps come and she vanishes.</p></details><details><summary><b>276</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A trapped person is rescued at the last moment by the stranger whose warning he ignored.</summary><p class="sum">The woman opens a panel and pulls him out; they run as the pursuers shout.</p></details><details><summary><b>277</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person helping a stranger escape pleads with her dangerous companion to spare him, and is thrust aside.</summary><p class="sum">At a window she holds back the client, begging him to spare the engineer; the client cuts at him as he drops, severing his thumb.</p></details><details><summary><b>284</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A victim who lost much and gained nothing learns that the gang&#x27;s gentler members quietly saved his life.</summary><p class="sum">Footprints suggest the woman and the quieter associate carried the engineer to safety; he laments his losses.</p></details><details><summary><b>389</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A faithful suitor quietly buys the household&#x27;s help to free the person he loves from her own father.</summary><p class="sum">The suitor bribed the servants to help the daughter escape; the investigator leaves, their standing there doubtful.</p></details></section>
<section><h2>Unassigned (159)</h2><p class="meta">Scenes that fit no situation recurring in two or more stories.</p><details><summary><b>0</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A proud, cool-headed person has met one opponent who outwitted them, and cannot stop measuring everyone else against her.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator introduces the one woman the cold reasoner ever respected, a woman of doubtful memory who once got the better of him.</p></details><details><summary><b>1</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — Someone whose own life has moved on has drifted away from an old companion and only hears of him secondhand.</summary><p class="sum">Marriage has drawn the narrator away from his old friend, who has been living alone between drugs and bursts of work on cases the police gave up.</p></details><details><summary><b>5</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An unsigned message promises a visitor with a grave secret, and an investigator must decide what to trust before meeting him.</summary><p class="sum">The unsigned note announces a masked visitor with a matter of the deepest importance; the investigator refuses to theorise and reads the paper&#x27;s watermark instead.</p></details><details><summary><b>6</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator has worked out who is coming before the door opens, and wants a trusted witness in the room.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator works out that the writer is a wealthy foreigner; a rich carriage arrives, and he makes the narrator stay to help.</p></details><details><summary><b>15</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator watching someone must decide whether a frequent visitor is an ally holding what he wants, or a lover.</summary><p class="sum">He learns she lives quietly with one frequent male visitor, a lawyer, and must decide whether that man holds the proof.</p></details><details><summary><b>16</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — Someone watching a house sees the two people he is following suddenly race off, and must decide whether to follow.</summary><p class="sum">The lawyer rushes out of the house and orders his cab to a church; the woman follows moments later in a hurry.</p></details><details><summary><b>17</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A person secretly following two others is suddenly pulled into their business and cannot refuse without giving himself away.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator follows them to the church and is suddenly dragged forward by the bridegroom, who needs a witness at once.</p></details><details><summary><b>18</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator has unwittingly helped his quarry&#x27;s plans along and must now act fast before she slips out of reach.</summary><p class="sum">He finds himself the witness at the woman&#x27;s hasty wedding, then plans to act before the pair can leave, and asks the narrator&#x27;s help.</p></details><details><summary><b>21</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — Watchers outside a house reason that their quarry&#x27;s new marriage makes her secret dangerous to her too.</summary><p class="sum">Waiting outside the house, the investigator reasons that the woman&#x27;s marriage makes the proof a danger to her as well, and wonders where she keeps it.</p></details><details><summary><b>25</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — A helper carries out his part in a deception and learns afterwards how much of the scene was staged.</summary><p class="sum">At the signal the narrator throws in the smoke device and cries fire; the investigator later explains the whole street crowd was hired.</p></details><details><summary><b>27</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator is greeted by name by a stranger in the street, a sign that his quarry may know more than he thought.</summary><p class="sum">A passing youth wishes him good night by name; next morning the client arrives eager, and the investigator tells him the woman has married.</p></details><details><summary><b>29</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — Someone pursued by a powerful former lover outwits the investigator he hired, keeping her proof only as protection.</summary><p class="sum">Her letter says she saw through the disguise, followed him home, and will keep the photograph only to protect herself from the client.</p></details><details><summary><b>30</b> · <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i> — An investigator bested by his quarry thinks less of his client than of her, and lets the client see it.</summary><p class="sum">The client is relieved and offers a ring; the investigator asks only for her portrait and pointedly ignores the client&#x27;s hand.</p></details><details><summary><b>31</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator welcomes a trusted companion into a client&#x27;s case just as a strange story is about to be told.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator finds the investigator with a stout red-haired client and is pulled in to hear the case, with a reminder that real life outdoes invention.</p></details><details><summary><b>32</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator cannot yet tell whether a client&#x27;s odd story is a crime at all, and wants every detail again.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator asks the client to repeat his unusual story, saying odd small affairs are often more telling than great crimes.</p></details><details><summary><b>35</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A person whose small business barely keeps him is drawn by a public offer of easy money for almost no work.</summary><p class="sum">The notice offers a well-paid post for nominal work to red-haired men; the client explains his small, struggling business and cheap assistant.</p></details><details><summary><b>39</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — A hopeful applicant facing a crowd of rivals would give up, but a helper insists on pushing him through to the front.</summary><p class="sum">The client and assistant go to the office through a vast crowd of applicants; the assistant forces a way through for him.</p></details><details><summary><b>48</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator has a puzzle half solved and needs quiet thought before he can decide what to do.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator smokes on the problem in silence, then abruptly proposes an afternoon concert.</p></details><details><summary><b>50</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator quietly maps the ground around a suspect&#x27;s hideout before revealing his suspicions to anyone.</summary><p class="sum">He surveys the busy street behind the shop, noting the buildings that back onto it, then turns to play.</p></details><details><summary><b>51</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator knows a serious crime will happen tonight and has only hours to stop it.</summary><p class="sum">After the concert he tells the narrator a serious crime is planned for that night and asks for his help.</p></details><details><summary><b>53</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An outsider asked to trust an investigator&#x27;s plan doubts it, while the official backing it patronises him.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator meets a police officer and a gloomy banker who doubts the expedition, while the officer patronises the investigator.</p></details><details><summary><b>54</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An official who has chased a clever, well-born criminal for years is offered a chance to finally take him.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator promises the banker a large stake and the officer a notorious, well-born criminal he has never managed to catch.</p></details><details><summary><b>61</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator explains how a helper who worked for too little was the tell that exposed a whole scheme.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains that the fund was a lure to get the shopkeeper out of the way every day.</p></details><details><summary><b>62</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator traces a scheme back through a helper&#x27;s odd habits and the neighbour who had something worth taking.</summary><p class="sum">He explains how the assistant&#x27;s cellar habits, worn knees and the bank next door revealed the tunnel.</p></details><details><summary><b>63</b> · <i>The Red-Headed League</i> — An investigator who has just solved a case feels ordinary life closing in again and dreads the idleness.</summary><p class="sum">He explains how he knew the attempt would come that night, then complains that ordinary life bores him.</p></details><details><summary><b>64</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — Two companions argue whether ordinary life hides anything stranger than invention, each sure the other is wrong.</summary><p class="sum">By the fire the investigator argues that real life is stranger than fiction; the narrator doubts it, finding reported crimes dull.</p></details><details><summary><b>65</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — A person picks an example to prove a friend wrong, and the friend turns it against him with facts he lacked.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator picks a newspaper case to prove his point; the investigator, who worked on it, shows its details were stranger than any invention.</p></details><details><summary><b>66</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — An investigator has many weighty cases and none worth his interest, and hopes the stranger outside will bring one.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator shows gifts from grateful royal clients and says his current cases are important but dull, then spots a client in the street.</p></details><details><summary><b>80</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — An investigator notices that a missing man never once let his own handwriting be seen.</summary><p class="sum">He notes her inky glove, then reads the missing man&#x27;s description and points out that even the signatures on his letters were typed.</p></details><details><summary><b>81</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — An investigator quietly sends for a relative he suspects, without saying why, and waits for the reply.</summary><p class="sum">He writes to the stepfather&#x27;s employer and to the stepfather himself, asking the latter to call.</p></details><details><summary><b>89</b> · <i>A Case of Identity</i> — An investigator explains how he proved two men were one, by noticing they were never seen together.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains how the suitor and stepfather never appeared together, and how he checked the description and the typewriter.</p></details><details><summary><b>90</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A married man is invited on a dangerous errand by an old friend, and his spouse urges him to go.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator&#x27;s wife urges him to accept the investigator&#x27;s telegram asking him to come on a country murder case; he joins him at the train.</p></details><details><summary><b>91</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator takes up a case where the evidence already points firmly at one person, and resolves to assume nothing.</summary><p class="sum">On the train the investigator explains that a son is accused of his father&#x27;s murder, a simple case that is hard for that reason.</p></details><details><summary><b>92</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — Two old associates from far away live side by side, one oddly dependent on the other, until one is found dead.</summary><p class="sum">He describes two former colonists who settled near each other, one rich, one his tenant, and the tenant&#x27;s walk to an appointment he never returned from.</p></details><details><summary><b>98</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — Someone studying a case turns to the accused&#x27;s own words for the first time, hoping for a crack in the story.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator hands over the local paper carrying the son&#x27;s own statement at the inquest.</p></details><details><summary><b>105</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator gives a frightened friend hope that the accused is innocent, and is accused of cruelty for it.</summary><p class="sum">Her father, who knew the dead man in the colonies, has collapsed with illness; the officer rebukes the investigator for raising false hopes.</p></details><details><summary><b>106</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A companion left alone turns over the evidence himself, trying to see what the officials missed.</summary><p class="sum">Alone, the narrator studies the inquest report and notes the fatal blow came from behind, and ponders the dying word and grey cloth.</p></details><details><summary><b>107</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator visits an accused man and finds him honest, bewildered, and no help at all in clearing himself.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator returns: the son knows nothing more, and is honest but slow.</p></details><details><summary><b>109</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator notices a dead man was meeting someone else entirely, someone the whole district has overlooked.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator stresses the father had an appointment and called out before he knew his son was near; the rich neighbour is said to be dying.</p></details><details><summary><b>111</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator gathers small physical evidence at a grieving household before walking the ground where the death happened.</summary><p class="sum">At the farm the investigator measures the boots of the dead man and his son, then follows the path to the pool.</p></details><details><summary><b>112</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator absorbed in the hunt ignores his companions while a sceptical official looks on with contempt.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator follows the trail like a hound, ignoring questions, while the officer watches with contempt.</p></details><details><summary><b>113</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator finds the scene of a crime already trampled by careless officials who got there first.</summary><p class="sum">At the pool he reads the trampled ground and knows the officer has been raking in the water.</p></details><details><summary><b>114</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator finds signs that a third person watched a quarrel from hiding and slipped back for something left behind.</summary><p class="sum">He finds the son&#x27;s tracks, the father&#x27;s, and a third person&#x27;s odd tiptoe tracks behind a tree, and gathers ash and a stone.</p></details><details><summary><b>117</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator realises a dying man&#x27;s half-heard words were naming his killer, not raving.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains that the call was one used by colonists and that the dying word named a place in the colony.</p></details><details><summary><b>118</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — An investigator has built a case against someone from small signs, and the only question left is what to do.</summary><p class="sum">He explains how he read the killer&#x27;s height, lameness, left hand and habits from tracks and ash; the narrator sees who it must be.</p></details><details><summary><b>121</b> · <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i> — A respected man confesses that his fortune began in a violent crime committed long ago under another name.</summary><p class="sum">The old man confesses that as a young man in the colony he became a highway robber.</p></details><details><summary><b>126</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A chronicler must decide whether to tell a story whose ending was never fully explained or proven.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator explains he is choosing, from many cases, one that was startling but never fully cleared up.</p></details><details><summary><b>127</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A chronicler passes over many lesser matters to reach the one case that still troubles him.</summary><p class="sum">He lists other cases from that year before turning to the strangest of them.</p></details><details><summary><b>128</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — Two companions sheltering from a storm hear an unexpected visitor, and know only real trouble would bring someone out tonight.</summary><p class="sum">On a stormy night a bell rings; the investigator, who has no friends but the narrator, guesses only a serious case would bring anyone out.</p></details><details><summary><b>130</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A young man explains that the danger hanging over him was handed down to him with his family&#x27;s fortune.</summary><p class="sum">The visitor explains the trouble is inherited, beginning with his father&#x27;s successful business and his uncle.</p></details><details><summary><b>131</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A relative who came home rich from abroad lived shut away from everyone, as if hiding from something.</summary><p class="sum">His uncle made a fortune abroad, fought in a war, then came home and lived as a fierce, drinking recluse.</p></details><details><summary><b>134</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — A frightened man destroys what his pursuers want and leaves his estate to a relative with an ominous warning.</summary><p class="sum">The uncle burned the box&#x27;s papers and made the nephew witness a will leaving the estate to his father, warning it was a double-edged gift.</p></details><details><summary><b>144</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator who believes a single fact can reveal a whole chain of events sets out to prove it.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator speaks of reasoning from one fact to a whole chain of events, and of needing all useful knowledge.</p></details><details><summary><b>145</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator reasons that a man who fled abroad and hid for years was running from someone.</summary><p class="sum">He reasons the uncle fled abroad in fear, and asks the narrator to note the letters&#x27; postmarks.</p></details><details><summary><b>147</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator realises his client is hunted not by one enemy but by an organised group that wants its papers back.</summary><p class="sum">He concludes the killers are a group determined to recover the papers, and names a secret society.</p></details><details><summary><b>148</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — Someone learns that the threat against a family comes from a society that warns once and then kills.</summary><p class="sum">The encyclopedia describes a secret society that sent warning tokens before killing those who defied it.</p></details><details><summary><b>149</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator concludes that stolen records could ruin powerful people, who will kill anyone holding them.</summary><p class="sum">He reasons the uncle&#x27;s papers could implicate powerful men, so the society will stop at nothing; next morning he starts inquiries.</p></details><details><summary><b>152</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator turns his enemies&#x27; own threat back on them, having traced them through dull public records.</summary><p class="sum">He sends the killers&#x27; own token to the ship&#x27;s master, and explains how he traced the ship through shipping registers.</p></details><details><summary><b>153</b> · <i>The Five Orange Pips</i> — An investigator has the killers in his grasp, and justice is taken out of his hands by chance.</summary><p class="sum">The ship had sailed; he has cabled for the men&#x27;s arrest at their home port, but the ship is lost at sea with all hands.</p></details><details><summary><b>156</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — Someone agrees to walk into a dangerous den alone to bring home a friend&#x27;s lost spouse.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator offers to go alone and bring the man home; he descends into the den by the docks.</p></details><details><summary><b>157</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person sent to rescue an addict finds him confused, ashamed, and unaware how long he has been gone.</summary><p class="sum">Among the stupefied smokers he finds his friend, who has lost track of the days and weeps.</p></details><details><summary><b>158</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An ashamed addict agrees to go home but cannot even settle his own debts without help.</summary><p class="sum">The addict agrees to go home and asks the narrator to settle his debt.</p></details><details><summary><b>160</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A person finishes one errand of mercy and is drawn at once into a friend&#x27;s far more dangerous hunt.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator sends the addict home and joins the investigator, who was there hunting an enemy.</p></details><details><summary><b>162</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator dreads facing a waiting spouse when he still has no news of the person she has lost.</summary><p class="sum">They drive into the country; the investigator dreads facing the missing man&#x27;s wife without news.</p></details><details><summary><b>163</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator is baffled by the disappearance of a respectable family man with no apparent troubles or enemies.</summary><p class="sum">He explains the missing man was a respectable, prosperous husband and father with no debts.</p></details><details><summary><b>164</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A spouse happens to be in a rough part of town on an errand at the very hour her partner is there.</summary><p class="sum">The man went to town promising his son a toy; by chance his wife was called to an office near the den the same day.</p></details><details><summary><b>167</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — Searchers find every sign that a missing man was killed and his body disposed of, but no body.</summary><p class="sum">Blood on the window, the man&#x27;s clothes hidden, and the high tide suggest he was killed and thrown into the river.</p></details><details><summary><b>168</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A known villain denies all knowledge of a crime in his own house, and the evidence cannot yet contradict him.</summary><p class="sum">The den keeper, a known villain, claims to know nothing of his lodger&#x27;s doings or the missing man&#x27;s clothes.</p></details><details><summary><b>169</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — A notorious, pitiable figure everyone knows by sight becomes the chief suspect in a disappearance.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator describes the lodger, a well-known scarred beggar with a quick wit, the last man to see the missing man.</p></details><details><summary><b>170</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — Someone doubts a suspect could have done it, and is told the suspect is stronger than he looks.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator doubts a cripple could overpower a strong man; the investigator says he is powerful apart from his limp.</p></details><details><summary><b>173</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator who has found nothing arrives to face a waiting spouse who hopes for news.</summary><p class="sum">No questions are answered; they arrive at the missing man&#x27;s country home, where his wife is waiting.</p></details><details><summary><b>176</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator must decide whether a letter from a supposedly dead man is genuine or a clever forgery.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator examines the envelope and the note, written in her husband&#x27;s hurried hand and enclosing his ring.</p></details><details><summary><b>178</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator presses a witness on exactly what she saw, trying to separate what happened from what she feared.</summary><p class="sum">He questions her closely about what she saw at the window and whether her husband ever took drugs.</p></details><details><summary><b>179</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator stays up all night turning a puzzle over until he either solves it or knows he cannot.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator sits up all night smoking and thinking on a heap of cushions.</p></details><details><summary><b>180</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator realises at dawn that the answer was in front of him all along, and hurries to test it.</summary><p class="sum">At dawn he calls himself a fool, says he has the key in his bag, and drives to town.</p></details><details><summary><b>181</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator calls on the authorities to see a suspect who has refused to let anyone see his face clean.</summary><p class="sum">At the police station he asks after the beggar, whom the officer calls filthy and refusing to wash.</p></details><details><summary><b>182</b> · <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i> — An investigator comes to unmask a sleeping prisoner, bringing the humble tool that will do it.</summary><p class="sum">They look into the cell at the sleeping, scarred beggar; the investigator produces a sponge.</p></details><details><summary><b>189</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A person finds a friend absorbed in some trifle and suspects it hides a serious story.</summary><p class="sum">After the holiday the narrator finds the investigator studying a battered old hat, which he says is trivial but instructive.</p></details><details><summary><b>190</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator is content to study a puzzle that involves no crime at all, purely for its own interest.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator says no crime is involved, only one of the odd incidents a crowded city throws up; the hat belongs to a finder.</p></details><details><summary><b>191</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A man attacked in the street panics at the sight of someone in uniform and runs, leaving his belongings behind.</summary><p class="sum">A man carrying a goose was set upon by roughs, broke a window with his stick, and fled when a uniformed passer-by ran up, leaving hat and bird.</p></details><details><summary><b>192</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — Someone holding a stranger&#x27;s lost property has only a common name to go on, and wants to return it.</summary><p class="sum">The goose&#x27;s tag and hat bear a common name, so the owner cannot be traced; the investigator challenges the narrator to read the hat.</p></details><details><summary><b>195</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator reads a proud man&#x27;s slide into neglect from the small repairs he has stopped bothering to make.</summary><p class="sum">He explains the foresight, the neglect and the attempt to hide stains as signs of a weakening but proud man.</p></details><details><summary><b>199</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator must trace how a stolen treasure travelled from the crime to an innocent stranger&#x27;s hands.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator resolves to trace the path from the jewel case to the goose, and advertises for the hat&#x27;s owner.</p></details><details><summary><b>202</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A proud, impoverished man admits he could not afford to seek his loss, and gladly takes a substitute.</summary><p class="sum">The shabby, learned man explains he could not afford to advertise, and happily accepts a substitute goose.</p></details><details><summary><b>203</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A stranger passes an unspoken test of innocence without knowing he was being tested.</summary><p class="sum">He shows no interest in the original bird&#x27;s remains, proving his innocence, and names the inn where he got it.</p></details><details><summary><b>204</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator follows a trail link by link, each person pointing to the one before.</summary><p class="sum">They go to the inn; the landlord says he bought the geese from a market dealer.</p></details><details><summary><b>205</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator knows an innocent man will be convicted unless he can trace one small thing, and meets a stubborn refusal.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator reminds the narrator an innocent man faces prison; the dealer angrily refuses to say where he bought the geese.</p></details><details><summary><b>208</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — An investigator sees someone else anxiously chasing the same trail and guesses who has most to lose.</summary><p class="sum">He notes others are asking about the geese; a frightened little man is driven off by the dealer, demanding a goose that was his.</p></details><details><summary><b>214</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief with stolen goods and no way to sell them turns to a disreputable old friend for help.</summary><p class="sum">He planned to take it to a criminal friend, and hit on the idea of hiding it in a goose.</p></details><details><summary><b>215</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i> — A thief hides his loot in a clever way, and a small accident means he loses track of it.</summary><p class="sum">He fed the stone to a goose, which escaped among the flock; he insisted on taking the bird he thought it was.</p></details><details><summary><b>218</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A chronicler has kept a promise of silence for years and now must decide whether to tell the story.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator explains he was sworn to secrecy until the client&#x27;s death; early one morning the investigator wakes him.</p></details><details><summary><b>226</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman whose sister died just before her wedding tells a stranger exactly how the house is laid out.</summary><p class="sum">Her twin sister died two years ago, a fortnight before her wedding; she describes the three bedrooms along one corridor.</p></details><details><summary><b>228</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman watches her sister die in terror, pointing toward the relative neither dared to accuse.</summary><p class="sum">She heard her sister scream, a whistle and a clang; the sister staggered out, cried about a speckled band, pointed toward the stepfather&#x27;s room, and died.</p></details><details><summary><b>232</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator has a theory that fits most of the facts and knows it does not fit them all.</summary><p class="sum">After she leaves, the investigator lays out a tentative theory involving the wanderers and a falling bar; both see objections.</p></details><details><summary><b>236</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — Helpers arrive quietly near a dangerous house, trying not to be noticed by anyone who might talk.</summary><p class="sum">They travel into the country and see the old house; a driver points them to the young woman on the path.</p></details><details><summary><b>238</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A young woman suspects her guardian invented an excuse to move her into the room where her sister died.</summary><p class="sum">He examines the outside; she believes the repairs were an excuse to move her into her sister&#x27;s room.</p></details><details><summary><b>239</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator finds his theory will not work and must look again at the room with fresh eyes.</summary><p class="sum">The shutters cannot be forced from outside; inside, he studies the room and a new bell-rope by the bed.</p></details><details><summary><b>240</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator finds small recent changes in a victim&#x27;s room that make no sense unless someone intended harm.</summary><p class="sum">The bell-rope is a dummy fixed near a ventilator that opens into the stepfather&#x27;s room; both were added recently.</p></details><details><summary><b>241</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator searches a suspect&#x27;s private room and finds innocent-looking things that together point to murder.</summary><p class="sum">In the stepfather&#x27;s room he finds a safe, a saucer of milk, a chair stood on, and a lash tied in a loop.</p></details><details><summary><b>243</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A frightened person begs for the truth about her sister&#x27;s death, and her helper will not speak without proof.</summary><p class="sum">He will not name the cause yet; from the inn they watch the stepfather return in a rage.</p></details><details><summary><b>245</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — Helpers realise a cold, clever relative has been trying to kill his ward by a method no one could trace.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator begins to see a horrible plan; at the signal they set out in the dark.</p></details><details><summary><b>249</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — A schemer who planned a hidden death for another is killed by his own weapon.</summary><p class="sum">The stepfather sits dead, bitten by the snake he trained; the investigator returns it to the safe.</p></details><details><summary><b>250</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — The truth about a guardian&#x27;s death is quietly left out of the official finding, sparing everyone.</summary><p class="sum">They take the young woman to her aunt; the inquiry blames a dangerous pet.</p></details><details><summary><b>251</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator admits his first theory was wrong and explains how he corrected it in time.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator admits he first reasoned wrongly, then explains how the snake was trained to crawl down the rope.</p></details><details><summary><b>252</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i> — An investigator admits he caused a killer&#x27;s death, and says it will not trouble his conscience.</summary><p class="sum">He explains the rest, and admits he is indirectly responsible for the stepfather&#x27;s death, without regret.</p></details><details><summary><b>253</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A chronicler wants to tell properly a story the newspapers already told carelessly and without its real effect.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator introduces one of only two cases he brought to the investigator, a dramatic one already told badly in the papers.</p></details><details><summary><b>254</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A grateful acquaintance delivers a stranger in trouble straight to a helper&#x27;s door, making sure he stays.</summary><p class="sum">Early one morning a grateful railway guard brings a new patient to the narrator&#x27;s door so that he cannot slip away.</p></details><details><summary><b>256</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person arrives with a terrible wound and calmly says it was no accident but an attempt on his life.</summary><p class="sum">He shows that his thumb was hacked off, calls it a murderous attack, and the narrator dresses the wound.</p></details><details><summary><b>258</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A shaken stranger is taken in kindly and made comfortable before he is asked to tell his story.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator feeds him breakfast and settles him on the sofa to hear his story.</p></details><details><summary><b>259</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A young person starting out alone has waited two years for work, and has begun to lose hope.</summary><p class="sum">The engineer explains he is an orphan who set up alone and had almost no work in two years.</p></details><details><summary><b>263</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A stranger prepares to explain why an ordinary job must be kept secret, and checks again for listeners.</summary><p class="sum">The client begins to explain why the secrecy is necessary, checking again they cannot be overheard.</p></details><details><summary><b>275</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person trapped by killers faces a slow death and must keep his head long enough to see a way out.</summary><p class="sum">The machine starts and the ceiling descends; he begs, then sees a gleam of hope.</p></details><details><summary><b>278</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — A person who escaped killers wakes injured in a strange place, unsure whether he is safe yet.</summary><p class="sum">He runs, faints, and wakes at dawn by the road near the station, the house gone from sight.</p></details><details><summary><b>280</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — Investigators set out after a ruthless gang, wondering why their one survivor was spared.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator calls the client a ruthless man; they travel with the police, puzzled why the victim was spared.</p></details><details><summary><b>281</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Engineer&#x27;s Thumb</i> — Everyone guesses where a hidden gang is based, and the investigator sees they were misled by a trick.</summary><p class="sum">Each guesses a direction; the investigator says the house is in the middle, and names them counterfeiters the police have hunted.</p></details><details><summary><b>285</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A chronicler decides to reveal what really lay behind an old scandal the gossips have since forgotten.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator recalls an old society scandal whose full facts were never told; a letter with a grand crest awaits the investigator.</p></details><details><summary><b>286</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An investigator cares more for a case&#x27;s interest than for how grand his new client is.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator says the letter is professional, from a very highly placed client, and asks the narrator to summarise the newspapers.</p></details><details><summary><b>288</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An investigator checks the standing of a grand client and finds an old name with little money behind it.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator looks the client up and finds him middle-aged, from a great but impoverished family.</p></details><details><summary><b>289</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A grand but poor family announces a match with the daughter of a newly rich outsider.</summary><p class="sum">A notice announced the client&#x27;s engagement to the only daughter of a rich foreign mine owner.</p></details><details><summary><b>290</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A marriage between old rank and new money is openly mocked as a bargain that suits both sides.</summary><p class="sum">A society paper sneers that the heiress&#x27;s huge dowry will rescue the impoverished noble family.</p></details><details><summary><b>292</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A grand family&#x27;s efforts to hush up a humiliation fail as the story spreads everywhere.</summary><p class="sum">A newspaper confirms the family&#x27;s consternation as rumours spread despite attempts to hush them up.</p></details><details><summary><b>296</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A proud man describes a wife from a rougher world, fearless and impulsive, whom he never really understood.</summary><p class="sum">The client describes his wife as a wild, fearless woman raised in a mining camp before her father&#x27;s sudden fortune.</p></details><details><summary><b>297</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A groom dismisses as trivial the one small moment when his bride&#x27;s manner suddenly changed.</summary><p class="sum">The bride was cheerful until after the ceremony, when she dropped her bouquet into a pew and grew agitated.</p></details><details><summary><b>298</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A bride slips away from her own wedding breakfast after a whispered talk with a confidant from her old life.</summary><p class="sum">She talked privately to her maid about a prior claim, left the breakfast, and was seen walking in the park with the arrested woman.</p></details><details><summary><b>305</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A proud man publicly deserted refuses to make any allowance for the person who deserted him.</summary><p class="sum">The client arrives, humiliated and angry; the investigator asks him to make allowance for a motherless girl.</p></details><details><summary><b>306</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A deserted groom is brought face to face with the bride who left him, and she asks his pardon.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator brings in the bride and her companion; she apologises for her treatment of the client.</p></details><details><summary><b>308</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A person who believed her first love dead has moved on, and never imagined he might return.</summary><p class="sum">She heard her first husband had been killed, grieved for a year, then accepted the arranged match.</p></details><details><summary><b>309</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A bride sees her first spouse, long thought dead, alive in the crowd at her second wedding.</summary><p class="sum">At the altar she saw her first husband alive in a pew; he slipped her a note, and she knew her duty was to him.</p></details><details><summary><b>310</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A person whose first spouse returns from the dead runs off with him rather than face the one she has just married.</summary><p class="sum">She slipped away to join him, too ashamed to face the grand guests; he had escaped captivity and followed her.</p></details><details><summary><b>311</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A deserted spouse is given a full apology, and accepts it only with cold, wounded formality.</summary><p class="sum">Ashamed, she wanted to vanish; the investigator persuaded them to be open; the client coldly shakes her hand.</p></details><details><summary><b>312</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — A proud man publicly humiliated refuses to join in any celebration of the outcome, and leaves.</summary><p class="sum">The client refuses to stay for supper; the investigator says the case shows how simple the strangest-seeming affairs can be.</p></details><details><summary><b>313</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An investigator reasons that a bride who changed her mind in minutes must have seen someone from her past.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains he reasoned the bride saw someone from her past who had a prior claim.</p></details><details><summary><b>314</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An investigator finds a runaway couple and persuades them to face the person they wronged.</summary><p class="sum">He traced the man through the expensive hotel bill and persuaded the couple to face the client.</p></details><details><summary><b>315</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i> — An investigator asks a friend to judge a humiliated man kindly, since he lost everything in an instant.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator asks the narrator to judge the deserted client mercifully, having lost wife and fortune at once.</p></details><details><summary><b>316</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A respectable person is driven so far by a crisis that he runs through the street like a madman.</summary><p class="sum">From the window the narrator sees a dignified man running and grimacing in the snow, checking house numbers; the investigator guesses he is coming to them.</p></details><details><summary><b>323</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A parent who indulged a child now watches him sink into debt under the influence of a worldly friend.</summary><p class="sum">His only son, spoiled after his mother&#x27;s death, has fallen into gambling debts through a charming older friend.</p></details><details><summary><b>325</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A young man desperate to pay a debt of honour is refused by his parent on the night a treasure is in the house.</summary><p class="sum">He told his son and niece about the treasure; the son warned the lock was weak, then begged for money to pay a gambling debt and was refused.</p></details><details><summary><b>329</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A parent begs a son he thinks guilty to confess and make amends, promising all will be forgiven.</summary><p class="sum">The banker begs his son to reveal where the missing stones are, promising forgiveness.</p></details><details><summary><b>333</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A companion is sure the accused is guilty but trusts his friend&#x27;s doubts enough to keep an open mind.</summary><p class="sum">They travel to the banker&#x27;s house; the narrator still thinks the son guilty but trusts the investigator.</p></details><details><summary><b>334</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A young woman grief-stricken over an accused cousin begs her guardian to release him.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator walks round the house; the pale, grieving niece asks the banker to free the son.</p></details><details><summary><b>337</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator tests the official theory by showing how the crime could not have happened quietly.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator examines a window sill and the bureau, and asks the banker to break off a corner of the treasure.</p></details><details><summary><b>338</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator has seen enough to be sure of a young man&#x27;s innocence but will not yet say who is guilty.</summary><p class="sum">He shows breaking it would make a loud noise; he searches outside alone and says only that his opinion is unchanged.</p></details><details><summary><b>340</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator in disguise has found the thread he was looking for and hurries to follow it.</summary><p class="sum">He returns in good spirits with an old boot, then goes out again.</p></details><details><summary><b>345</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A young man secretly watches the person he loves commit a theft against his own family.</summary><p class="sum">The son saw his cousin carry the treasure out and hand it through a window to someone.</p></details><details><summary><b>347</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator reads a whole night&#x27;s secret comings and goings from the tracks left behind.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator explains he read the maid&#x27;s meeting and the lane&#x27;s story in the snow.</p></details><details><summary><b>348</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator reconstructs from footprints how an accused man chased the real thief and fought him.</summary><p class="sum">The tracks showed a booted man waiting and a barefoot man chasing him, a struggle, and blood.</p></details><details><summary><b>349</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — An investigator reasons that an accused man would only keep silent to protect someone he loves.</summary><p class="sum">He reasoned only the niece could have brought the treasure, since the son would only shield her.</p></details><details><summary><b>352</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i> — A deceived guardian rushes to apologise to the child he wronged, while the betrayer is left to her fate.</summary><p class="sum">The banker thanks him and goes to apologise to his son; the investigator predicts the niece will be punished enough by her lover.</p></details><details><summary><b>353</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person is told by a proud companion that his account of their shared work misses the only thing that matters.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator complains that the narrator&#x27;s accounts dwell on colour rather than reasoning; the narrator bristles at his egotism.</p></details><details><summary><b>354</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A proud, bored companion lectures a friend on his failings because nothing worthwhile has come his way.</summary><p class="sum">The investigator insists his art is impersonal and that the narrator has turned lectures into tales; he is in a bad temper after a fruitless search.</p></details><details><summary><b>355</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A person who has lost interest in his work complains it has sunk to trifles, just as a new request arrives.</summary><p class="sum">He laments that great cases are over and his work has sunk to trifles, and shows a letter from a young woman as proof.</p></details><details><summary><b>365</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — Someone who went into danger alone sends an urgent call for help, and her helpers set off at once.</summary><p class="sum">An urgent telegram asks them to come; they travel by train through spring countryside.</p></details><details><summary><b>366</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — Someone admires a peaceful, isolated place, and is told isolation lets cruelty go unseen and unpunished.</summary><p class="sum">The narrator admires the scenery; the investigator says isolated houses fill him with horror.</p></details><details><summary><b>367</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An adviser fears for someone living far from neighbours, where no one would hear if something went wrong.</summary><p class="sum">He explains that in lonely places cruelty goes unnoticed; they meet the young woman at an inn.</p></details><details><summary><b>369</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — An employee learns that the grown child of the household left under circumstances that do not quite add up.</summary><p class="sum">The wife is not mad but silent and young; the man&#x27;s grown daughter supposedly left because she disliked her stepmother.</p></details><details><summary><b>370</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A newcomer in a household notices a sad, silent spouse and a cruel child, and senses a hidden sorrow.</summary><p class="sum">The wife is devoted but secretly sad; the child is spoiled and delights in cruelty to small creatures.</p></details><details><summary><b>385</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — Rescuers force their way to a prisoner&#x27;s door, fearing they have come too late.</summary><p class="sum">They arrive; she has locked the servant in the cellar; they break the barred door.</p></details><details><summary><b>387</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A cruel master is attacked by the very beast he kept to terrorise others.</summary><p class="sum">The starving dog attacks its master; the narrator shoots it; the female servant arrives, ready to tell what she knows.</p></details><details><summary><b>390</b> · <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i> — A cruel parent is left broken, the imprisoned child goes free and marries, and the hired stand-in moves on.</summary><p class="sum">The master survives broken; the daughter married her suitor; the young woman went on to success.</p></details></section>
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