The Adventure of the Priory School

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The Adventure of the Priory School is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates the mysterious disappearance of a schoolmaster and a nobleman’s son from an exclusive boarding school.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sherlock Holmes story
detective fiction work
short story
author Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED
collectionPosition one of 13 stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable NERFINISHED
Duke of Holdernesse NERFINISHED
Heidegger NERFINISHED
James Wilder NERFINISHED
Lord Saltire NERFINISHED
Reuben Hayes NERFINISHED
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
featuresCrime kidnapping
murder
featuresDetective Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
fictionalSchoolType exclusive boarding school
firstPublicationYear 1904
firstPublishedIn The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAdaptation audio book adaptations
radio drama adaptations
television adaptations
HolmesMethod analysis of bicycle tracks
analysis of footprints
deduction from physical clues
HolmesResidenceAppears 221B Baker Street NERFINISHED
language English
literaryCanon Sherlock Holmes canon NERFINISHED
mainPlotElement blackmail involving a duke
disappearance of a nobleman’s son
disappearance of a schoolmaster
investigation of a kidnapping
use of bicycle tracks as clues
mainTheme class and aristocracy
family secrets
greed and ambition
narrator Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
partOfSeries The Return of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
publicationMedium The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
publisher George Newnes NERFINISHED
setInCountry England NERFINISHED
setInLocation Baker Street NERFINISHED
North of England NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfSetting late 19th century
workChronology follows "The Adventure of Black Peter" in some editions NERFINISHED
precedes "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" in some editions

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes containsStory The Adventure of the Priory School