The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby
1954 short story
"The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Collier's on 21 August 1953, and was illustrated by Robert Fawcett in Collier's. It was also printed in two issues of the magazine Summertime in 1965, illustrated by Paul Granger.[1]
Plot
Holmes is startled by the sudden appearance during a blizzard of Andrew Joliffe, the butler of horticulturalist Sir John Doverton. During a dinner party, the Abbas Ruby disappeared from the Doverton house, as did all the blooms on Sir John's camellia bush. The police arrive at Holmes residence to arrest Joliffe, but not before Joliffe admits that he was the same Joliffe involved in the Catterdon Diamond robbery. Before departing with his prisoner, Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard shows Holmes and Watson the empty jewel case found concealed in Joliffe's room.[2]
References
- ^ De Waal, Ronald Burt (1974). The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Bramhall House. p. 424. ISBN 0-517-217597.
- ^ The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, Chapter 8
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Literary pastiches of Sherlock Holmes
by Adrian Conan Doyle
and John Dickson Carr
- "The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1952)
- "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1953)
- "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Two Women" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1953)
- "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1953)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974)
- The West End Horror (1976)
- The Canary Trainer (1993)
- The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019)
- The Return of the Pharaoh (2021)
- Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (1978)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1979)
- The Perils of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
- The Prisoner of the Devil (1979)
- The Revenge of the Hound (1987)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991)
- The Tangled Skein (1995)
- The Scroll of the Dead (1998)
- Shadow of the Rat (1999)
- The Veiled Detective (2004)
- The Devil's Promise (2014)
- The Ripper Legacy (2016)
by Laurie R. King
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994)
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
- A Letter of Mary (1997)
- The Moor (1998)
- O Jerusalem (1999)
- Justice Hall (2002)
- The Game (2004)
- Locked Rooms (2005)
- The Language of Bees (2009)
- The God of the Hive (2010)
- Pirate King (2011)
- Garment of Shadows (2012)
- Dreaming Spies (2015)
- The Murder of Mary Russell (2016)
- Island of the Mad (2018)
- The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1997)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Running Noose (2001)
- The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (2007)
- Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil (2009)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly (2010)
- The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
- Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service (2013)
- Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson (2009)
- The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2017)
by Andy Lane
- Death Cloud (2010)
- Red Leech (2010)
- Black Ice (2011)
- Fire Storm (2011)
- Snake Bite (2012)
- Knife Edge (2013)
- Stone Cold (2014)
- Night Break (2015)
- The Breath of God (2011)
- The Army of Dr. Moreau (2012)
- The House of Silk (2011)
- Moriarty (2014)
- Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (2011)
- The Man From The Diogenes Club (2017)
and Anna Waterhouse
- Mycroft Holmes (2015)
- Mycroft and Sherlock (2018)
- Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (2019)
- The Stuff of Nightmares (2013)
- Gods of War (2014)
- The Thinking Engine (2015)
- The Labyrinth of Death (2017)
- The Devil's Dust (2018)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (2016)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (2017)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils (2018)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon (2019)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons (2020)
- Sherlock Holmes & The Three Winter Terrors (2021)
- Sherlock Holmes & The Highgate Horrors (2023)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Patchwork Devil (2016)
- Sherlock Holmes: Cry of the Innocents (2017)
by Sherry Thomas
- A Study in Scarlet Women (2016)
- A Conspiracy in Belgravia (2017)
- The Hollow of Fear (2018)
by Larry Millett
- Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (1996)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (1998)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (1999)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance (2001)
- The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma (2017)
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- The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (1944)
- The Fossil Island (1951)
- The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974)
- Everybody's Favorite Duck (1988)
- Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries (2011–2013)
- Sherlock Bones (2011–2012)
- Solar Pons
- Stoker and Holmes (2013–2017)
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