The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

In this book, the monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages - three are still missing - were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theater tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain's enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine. It seems clear that Cadogan West fell from a train and that he stole the plans meaning to sell them, but the mystery is truly complex: How did Cadogan West meet his end? If he was thrown off a train, what was he doing at Aldgate, well past the stop where he presumably would have gone? If he had made an appointment with a foreign agent to sell the plans, would he not have kept his evening free instead of buying theater tickets for himself and his fiancee? How did he get into the Underground without a ticket, or did someone take it? Why can no evidence of violence be found in any Underground coach? How is it that Cadogan's head was crushed and yet there was very little bleeding by the track where he was found? Of course, Sherlock Holmes comes out as the winner. Excellent plot! You will be clueless as to who the culprit was until the very end!!

In this book, the monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages - three are still missing - were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theater tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain's enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine. It seems clear that Cadogan West fell from a train and that he stole the plans meaning to sell them, but the mystery is truly complex: How did Cadogan West meet his end? If he was thrown off a train, what was he doing at Aldgate, well past the stop where he presumably would have gone? If he had made an appointment with a foreign agent to sell the plans, would he not have kept his evening free instead of buying theater tickets for himself and his fiancee? How did he get into the Underground without a ticket, or did someone take it? Why can no evidence of violence be found in any Underground coach? How is it that Cadogan's head was crushed and yet there was very little bleeding by the track where he was found? Of course, Sherlock Holmes comes out as the winner. Excellent plot! You will be clueless as to who the culprit was until the very end!!