The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

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The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates a series of mysterious deaths linked to a deadly exotic poison in Cornwall.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sherlock Holmes short story
detective fiction short story
adaptedAs radio drama
television episode
assistantInInvestigation Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
author Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED
belongsToLiteraryPeriod late Victorian and Edwardian literature
centralMystery cause of sudden madness and death in a locked room
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
detectiveMethod Holmes personally tests the poison in a controlled experiment
featuresDetective Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
featuresLocation Cornwall NERFINISHED
featuresTheme exotic poison
poisoning
fictionalPoisonName Devil’s Foot root
fictionalStatus work of fiction
firstPublicationYear 1910
firstPublishedIn The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasClergyCharacter Dr. Leon Sterndale NERFINISHED
hasCrimeType murder by poisoning
hasDeductionType forensic reasoning about toxic fumes
hasMotiveInPlot revenge
hasPublisher George Newnes NERFINISHED
hasSuspectCharacter Mortimer Tregennis NERFINISHED
hasVictimCharacter Brenda Tregennis NERFINISHED
investigatedBy Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
language English
literaryCanon Sherlock Holmes canon NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
narrator Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
orderInCollection third story in His Last Bow
originalIllustrator Sidney Paget NERFINISHED
partOfCollection His Last Bow NERFINISHED
plotElement mysterious deaths in a country house
use of a rare toxic powder
publicationFormat short story
publicationMedium magazine
series Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
setting Cornwall, England NERFINISHED
televisionAdaptation Granada Television Sherlock Holmes series NERFINISHED
televisionAdaptationActorForHolmes Jeremy Brett NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfSetting late 19th century

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His Last Bow hasPart The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot