– James and his father were most probably arguing about ____
– Who was arrested for the murder of Charles McCarthy?
– Who killed Charles McCarthy? Why? – How did Holmes find out the murderer?
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– How did Holmes deduct that the wife might not want to hurt the baby but to protect him?
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
• “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” is the fourth of 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the cases of Sherlock Holmes. Originally published in the Strand Magazine in 1891, “the Boscombe Valley Mystery” would also appear the following year in the compilation work, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In the Boscombe Valley Mystery we see Holmes and Watson departing from their normal London setting, travelling out into Herefordshire.