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Solitary Cyclist" 1903 illustration by Sidney Paget Author
Arthur Conan Doyle Series The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Publication date 1903  "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist",
one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British
author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle
collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.   (l. to r.) Watson,
Holmes and Miss Smith.  Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith
of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in her and her mother’s
lives. Violet’s father has recently died, and left his wife and
daughter rather poor. However, a notice appeared in the
newspaper not much later inquiring as to their whereabouts.
Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the
former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully. They had
come from South Africa, where they had known Violet’s uncle
Ralph Smith, who had now also die