The Adventure of the Yellow Face

"The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Grant Munro lifts Lucy whilst Effie looks on, 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 dateFebruary 1893
Chronology
SeriesThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
 
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
 
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk

"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in February 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 11 February 1893.[1]

One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson:

...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered.

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