The Adventure of the Reigate Squire

"The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Cunninghams fighting with Holmes, 1893 illustration by Sidney Paget in The Strand Magazine
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CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Detective fiction short stories
Publication
Published inStrand Magazine
Publication dateJune 1893
Chronology
SeriesThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
 
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual
 
The Adventure of the Crooked Man

"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]

  1. ^ Temple, Emily (22 May 2018). "The 12 Best Sherlock Holmes Stories, According to Arthur Conan Doyle". Literary Hub. Retrieved 6 January 2019.