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Sir Eustace's corpse is still lying at the murder scene. Hopkins tells Holmes some unsavoury things about Sir Eustace: that he poured petroleum over his wife's dog and set it alight, and once threw a decanter at her maid Theresa. Theresa corroborates Lady Brackenstall's account of Sir Eustace being an abusive alcoholic.
Return to Groosham Grange is a fantasy novel by English author Anthony Horowitz and the second novel in the Groosham Grange series. It was first published in 1999 under the name The Unholy Grail, but was reissued in 2003 under the new name, Return to Groosham Grange. [1] This change in the title was to help link the two books together.
Kenneth Henry Grange was born on 17 July 1929, in east London. [1] His mother, Hilda (née Long), was a machinist and his father, Harry, a policeman. [2] The family moved to Wembley, north London at the outbreak of the second world war, where his father was a bomb disposal officer.
In 1642 Hale married Anne Moore, the daughter of Sir Henry Moore, a Royalist soldier, and the granddaughter of Sir Francis Moore, a Serjeant-at-Law under James I. [81] Moore and Hale had 10 children, but she was evidently a highly extravagant woman, with Hale warning his children that "an idle or expensive wife is most times an ill bargain ...
"The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. One of the 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927), [1] it was first published in Collier's in the United States on 25 October 1924, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in January 1925.
The Grange at High Force is a children's novel by Philip Turner, published by Oxford in 1965 with illustrations by William Papas. It was the second book published in the author's Darnley Mills series. [2] Turner won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [3]
"The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" was published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in August 1904, [1] and in the US in Collier's on 26 November 1904. [2] The story was published with seven illustrations by Sidney Paget in the Strand, and with seven illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele in Collier's. [3]
John Mason observes that a heap of bones there earlier is now gone. Holmes finds a coffin with a fresh, swathed body in it. Just then, Sir Robert arrives, catching Holmes and Watson in the act. After Holmes makes it plain that he has deduced most of the odd goings-on, Sir Robert invites him and Watson back to the house and explains everything.