The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
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"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates a series of smashed busts of Napoleon that conceal a darker criminal mystery.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes short story
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detective fiction short story ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | The Return of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. John Watson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inspector Lestrade NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Sherlock Holmes universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1904 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Collier's Weekly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | short story ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationType |
radio adaptations
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television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCrimeType |
theft
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vandalism ⓘ |
| hasDetective | Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInvestigationType | private investigation ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryCanonStatus | part of the Sherlock Holmes canon ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFrame | Watson recounting Holmes’s case ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| hasOriginalAudience | general magazine readership ⓘ |
| hasPoliceInspector | Inspector Lestrade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecurringMotif |
Holmes’s admiration for Lestrade’s improvement
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Holmes’s use of careful observation ⓘ |
| hasSidekick | Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacterReference | Napoleon Bonaparte busts ⓘ |
| hasWorkInSeriesPosition | one of 13 stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | British detective fiction ⓘ |
| mainPlotElement |
hidden criminal mystery
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series of smashed busts of Napoleon ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
police versus private detective methods
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rational deduction ⓘ |
| narrator | Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | The Return of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | magazine ⓘ |
| series | Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| supportingCharacter | Inspector Lestrade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPublication | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workChronologyWithinSeries | one of the later Holmes short stories ⓘ |
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