![]() ![]() The story’s mystery is therefore determining who the crooked man is and the strange animal. Holmes deduces that the colonel either fainted with surprise and then hit his head on the chimney tracks once he saw the intruder, or the intruder killed him and took the key. Barclay is the immediate suspect since a club is found near her body.Īfter Holmes examines the house, he finds footprints of a strange creature and an unknown male. The coachman’s first instinct is to open the door for the other servants to enter but the key used for that door is missing. Baclay passed out on the couch and her husband dead on the floor. When he enters the room, the coachman finds Mrs. Doyle writes, “Those were scraps of her conversation, ending in a sudden dreadful cry in the man’s voice, with a crash, and a piercing scream from the woman” (Doyle). The servants who witness as they eavesdrop through the small living room’s door hear the Colonel scream, followed by silence. In the story, the commander of the Royal Mallows Regiment in Aldershot Colonel Barclay is murdered and his wife Nancy is the key suspect. ![]()
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