6/21/2023 0 Comments A study in emerald story![]() ![]() Bartholomew's Hospital, where the man proceeds to astonish the narrator by deducing that he is a soldier recently returned from Afghanistan. In London, a mutual friend introduces the narrator to a potential flatmate. In 1881, the (yet-unnamed) narrator is sent home to convalesce after being wounded in the shoulder in Afghanistan. ![]() The mystery revolves around a corpse found at a derelict house in Shoreditch, London with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body. The story is told in the first person and describes the narrator's introduction in 1881 to a certain "consulting detective" through a mutual friend and the first mystery in which he followed his investigations. ![]() The story is split into five chapters, each titled according to its content. A wounded soldier back from Afghanistan meets a famed detective and together they solve a case of murder, in which the soldier is amazed by the detective's "science of deduction". ![]()
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