2-716-841 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'"The Most Extraordinary and Tragic Affair Has Occurred During the Night", Said the Vicar', 1910. '"Mr Holmes", said the vicar, in an agitated voice..."it is the most unheard-of business. We can only regard it as a special Providence that you should chance to be here at the time, for in all England you are the one man we need"'. Scene from "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot", a detective story featuring Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in "The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly", Volume XL - July to December 1910. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1910]