The Big Book Of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
At length he spoke. “Of all the cases we have had to deal with, Watson, none touches us more nearly than this.” He tossed over a damp copy of the Mail, with an American despatch reading as follows: ARTIST SUSPECTED OF MURDER New York, March 27. (AP) The partially dismembered body of Elijah J. Grootenheimer was found today in a canvas-covered box which had been left on the curb in 10th Street near the East River. The face had been horribly mutilated by beating with some blunt instrument. Identification was made by means of a letter in the pocket of the dead man’s coat, addressed to him and signed Frederic Dorr Steele. The police decline to give out the contents of this letter, but intimate that it was threatening in tone. Steele is an artist well known for his pictures illustrating Sherlock Holmes and other mystery tales, and it is thought that brooding over these stories may have affected his mind. The motive of the crime clearly was not robbery, since $4.80 in cash and a valuable ticket for the Dutch Treat Show were found undisturbed in his pockets.
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