The Adventure of the Dancing Men

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The Adventure of the Dancing Men is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, notable for its plot involving a mysterious code made of stick-figure drawings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sherlock Holmes short story
detective fiction short story
antagonist Abe Slaney NERFINISHED
author Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED
belongsToCycle Return of Sherlock Holmes stories NERFINISHED
collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED
detective Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Abe Slaney NERFINISHED
Elsie Cubitt NERFINISHED
Hilton Cubitt NERFINISHED
fictionalSettingCountry England NERFINISHED
fictionalSettingLocation Riding Thorpe Manor NERFINISHED
fictionalTimePeriod late 19th century
firstPublicationYear 1903
firstPublishedIn The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAdaptation radio drama adaptation
stage adaptation
television adaptation
hasCodeType simple substitution cipher
hasSymbolType dancing men figures
stick-figure drawings
languageOfWork English
literaryCanon Sherlock Holmes canon
literaryCharacterRole Dr. John Watson as narrator
Sherlock Holmes as protagonist
mainCharacter Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
narrator Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
notableFor Holmes’s code-breaking deduction
use of pictographic cipher
originalLanguage English
partOf The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection NERFINISHED
plotElement domestic tragedy
jealous former lover
mysterious code made of stick-figure drawings
substitution cipher
threatening coded messages
protagonistOccupation consulting detective
publicationDecade 1900s
publicationMedium The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
series Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
sidekick Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes containsStory The Adventure of the Dancing Men