| "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" | |||
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| Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
 1923 illustration by Frederic Dorr Steele in Hearst's International | |||
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| Publication date | March 1923 | ||
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| Series | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | ||
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"The Adventure of the Creeping Man" (1923) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle collected in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and Hearst's International in the United States in March 1923. Watson states at the beginning of the story that this case was among the last that Holmes investigated before retiring to Sussex in 1903.