The Adventure of the Gloria Scott

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"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, notable for recounting Holmes’s first case from his university days and revealing a dark secret from his friend’s family past.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sherlock Holmes short story
detective fiction short story
author Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED
collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Hudson NERFINISHED
Trevor senior NERFINISHED
Victor Trevor NERFINISHED
featuresEvent Holmes’s first case at university
fictionalUniverse Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 1893
firstPublishedAs magazine short story
firstPublishedIn The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAdaptation audio book adaptations
radio drama adaptations
television adaptations
hasFictionalDocument confessional letter by Trevor senior
hasForm short story
hasTheme consequences of crime
guilt and redemption
identity and reinvention
secrets from the past
language English
laterPublishedIn short story collection
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainCharacter Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
narrativeFrame Holmes telling Watson about his first case
narrator Dr. John H. Watson NERFINISHED
notableFor recounting Sherlock Holmes’s first case
revealing a dark secret in Victor Trevor’s family
originalIllustrator Sidney Paget NERFINISHED
partOfCanon Sherlock Holmes canon NERFINISHED
plotElement decoded warning letter
hidden criminal past
transport ship mutiny
publicationMedium periodical
series The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
setIn England NERFINISHED
Norfolk NERFINISHED
shipTypeInStory convict transport ship
storyOrderInCollection 2
timeOfHolmesLifeDepicted university days
titleCharacterOfShip Gloria Scott NERFINISHED
toldAs retrospective case recounted by Holmes

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes containsStory The Adventure of the Gloria Scott