"The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" | |||
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Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
Text available at Wikisource | |||
Country | United Kingdom | ||
Language | English | ||
Genre(s) | Detective fiction short stories | ||
Publication | |||
Published in | Strand Magazine | ||
Publication date | June 1893 | ||
Chronology | |||
Series | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | ||
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"The Adventure of the Reigate Squire", also known as "The Adventure of the Reigate Squires" and "The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle", is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and Harper's Weekly in the United States in June 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.[1]