However, the person is a young girl who is half-black and the daughter of Effie and her first husband, who is dead. Holmes and Watson, believe it is her former husband come to England to blackmail Munro. However, the room where he saw the mysterious figure is very comfortable and well furnished, with a portrait of his wife on the mantelpiece. Overcome with jealousy, he breaks in and finds the place empty. Munro has seen a mysterious yellow-faced person in this cottage. Two months later, Effie was caught conducting secret liaisons with the occupants of a cottage near the Munro house in Norbury. Their marriage had been blissful when out of the blue, she asked for a 100 pounds and begged him not to ask why. She had been previously married in America, but her husband and child had died of yellow fever, whereupon she returned to England and met and married Munro. Grant Munro, returns, Holmes and Watson hear the story of Munro’s deception by his wife Effie. From this, Holmes deduces that he was disturbed of mind (because he forgot the pipe) that he valued it highly (because he had repaired, rather than replaced it, when it was broken) that he was muscular, left-handed, had excellent teeth, was careless in his habits and was well-off.

Watson to find he has missed a visitor but that the caller has left his pipe behind. Holmes, suffering from boredom due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr. Leslie Klinger, in “ The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volume 1”, said Holmes was so taken in by Munro’s wife that he instructs Watson to whisper “Norbury (the location of the mystery) whenever he becomes too arrogant.” The story deals with racial prejudice and, in a rare instance, a failure of Holmes’ keen intellect. We began the adventure by considering one of the darkest of tales in the Holmes canon, today we move on to The Adventure of the Yellow Face. We finished the review of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and now move on to The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This week, we return to Sherlock Holmes-themed blog posts.

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