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
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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
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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
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio drama adaptation
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stage adaptation ⓘ television adaptation ⓘ |
| hasCodeType | simple substitution cipher ⓘ |
| hasSymbolType |
dancing men figures
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stick-figure drawings ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryCanon | Sherlock Holmes canon ⓘ |
| literaryCharacterRole |
Dr. John Watson as narrator
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Sherlock Holmes as protagonist ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. John Watson
NERFINISHED
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Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrator | Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Holmes’s code-breaking deduction
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use of pictographic cipher ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
domestic tragedy
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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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