The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier

"The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
1926 illustration by Howard K. Elcock
Publication
Publication date1926
Chronology
SeriesThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
 
The Three Gables
 
The Lion's Mane

"The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (1926) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle included in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the US in Liberty in October 1926, and in the UK in The Strand Magazine in November 1926, and is one of 56 short stories in the canon of Sherlock Holmes. This story is one of only two narrated by Holmes rather than Doctor Watson, the other one being "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane". Dr Watson does not appear in either story.