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FLedda - 18/04/10 - Sherlock Holmes and the dancing men
by FLedda - (2010-04-18)
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Sherlock Holmes and the dancing men

 

The story deals about Elsie, gang's boss' daughter. In America his father will she marry the number two in the gang. His mother, before dying, gives her some money to go in England.

In England she marries John.  A year later John find some pictures with dancing men. Elsie is terrified by those pictures. The police won't help them, so John goes to Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes investigates and he understands Elsie and John are in danger. During the night John dead and Elsie go to the hospital: they have got a bullet on their head. The police think the murder is Elsie, but Holmes proves there was another one man when John dead.

Holmes explains that dancing men's pictures are messages, messages of death.

He send a message to a stranger who staying in a house near that place. He is a gangster and he had killed John and tried to kill Elsie.