The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
1926 illustration by Frederic Dorr Steele
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Publication
Publication date1926
Chronology
SeriesThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
 
The Lion's Mane
 
The Veiled Lodger

"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.