The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Blue Carbuncle (The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ) is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1892, which appeared in the beach Magazine and was illustrated by Sidney Paget. In October of the same year she appeared in the total band The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).
Action
The action takes place on December 26, 1889. [Note 1] On the morning of this day the hotel porter Peterson after a ceremony witnessed a raid on a tall man. In his intervention, the participants take flight, but the victim of the attack leaves a worn felt hat with the drawn initials "HB" and a Christmas goose back, on the one card for the wife of a certain Henry Baker is stapled. Peterson brings both to Sherlock Holmes. During this includes an intelligent and morally dysfunctional owners due to the size and condition of the felt hat, prepares Petersons wife the Christmas goose. There she discovers the blue carbuncle, a famous diamond, the Countess of Morcar has lost five days in advance at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. The 26 -year-old plumber, John Horner is passed as a suspected thief of the indictment, which has previous convictions for a similar offense and has stayed at the material time in the hotel.
Holmes hides the gem that, since he was found in about 20 years, is surrounded by murder and manslaughter, in his vault. In order to solve the case, he is in all the evening papers an advertisement, in which he offers Henry Baker, in the evening to pick up the two lost property with him. At the appointed time, a made -looking man, who explains that he had to abstain from financial problems on giving up its own display reports. Henry Baker is satisfied with the anxious Watson new goose and seems to have known nothing of the valuable content of the actual goose. Thus, Holmes inquired about where Baker has bought the goose, and will then move to the pub Alpha Inn. There he is referred to the dealer Breckinridge in Covent Garden, which he so long angry with his inquiry until he calls him Mrs. Oakshott as a supplier.
Unexpectedly, there is a dispute between Breckinridge and a diminutive man who searches for a particular goose. It is to James Ryder, an employee of the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Sherlock Holmes offers him his help in the search and takes him in Baker Street. The jewel thief admits to have received by the maid of the Countess a hint. In order to divert suspicion from himself, he caused a little damage, and thus attracted the convicted plumber into the hotel room. After this was arrested, smuggled Ryder the gem out of the hotel to his sister Maggie Oakshott, who was Gänsemästerin. Then he pulled his friend into his confidence Maudsley, who advised him to hide the carbuncle in the goose. However, Ryder's sister knew nothing about it and gave him the wrong goose for Christmas, so this had to search for the middlemen for the right animal.
Holmes is Ryders after clemency and waives a complaint with the police.