The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Robert Ferguson thinks his wife might be a vampire. He's caught her sucking their baby's neck and since that discovery, she has locked herself in her room, only allowing their Peruvian maid to bring her food. Her behaviour had been strange before that and she had struck Ferguson's son from an earlier marriage twice. The boy, fifteen, has been left handicapped by a childhood accident. Holmes is immediately convinced he has solved the case upon hearing the story but he follows Ferguson back home to clear the mystery. "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" is part of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes".-

• Language: English
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Sep 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9788726586367

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

SAGA Egmont

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

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HOLMES had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which

was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.

For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit, said he. What do you make of it, Watson?

I read as follows:

46, OLD JEWRY,

Nov. 19th.

Re Vampires SIR:

Our client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, of Ferguson and Muirhead, tea brokers, of Mincing Lane, has made some inquiry from us in a communication of even date concerning vampires. As our firm specialises entirely upon the assessment of machinery the matter hardly comes within our purview, and we have therefore recommended Mr. Ferguson to call upon you and lay the matter before you. We have not forgotten your successful action in the case of Matilda Briggs.

We are, sir,

Faithfully yours,

MORRISON, MORRISON, AND DODD.

per E.J.C.

"Matilda Briggs was not the name of