Mary is the long-suffering wife of Sir Eustace.

Holmes and Watson cover things up accordingly and the police continue to think that a gang of thieves killed Sir Eustace.

Holmes and Watson feel that homicide was justifiable in this case, since it was in self-defense and since Sir Eustace was such an awful man. But Holmes eventually uncovers the real killer, Lady Brackenstall's boyfriend. For much of the story we think that a gang of thieves murdered Eustace during a home invasion gone awry. He is a wealthy guy, but we come to learn that he was also abusive to his wife. Sir Eustace is our murder victim in this story. Wodehouse Patricia Highsmith Ray Bradbury Raymond Carver Richard Bausch Richard Ford Sherman Alexie Sherwood Anderson Stephen King Stuart Dybek T.Characters in 'Abbey Grange' Sir Eustace Brackenstall Scott Fitzgerald Flannery O'Connor Frank O'Connor George Saunders Grace Paley Guy de Maupassant Haruki Murakami Henry James Isaac Babel James Joyce James Thurber John Cheever John O'Hara John Updike Jorge Luis Borges Joyce Carol Oates Junot Díaz Karen Russell Kate Chopin Langston Hughes Leonard Michaels Leo Tolstoy Lorrie Moore Maeve Brennan Maile Meloy Mary Gaitskill Mary Robison Nathaniel Hawthorne Neil Gaiman O. What do you think about this story? As always, join the conversation in the comments section below, on SSMT Facebook or on Twitter Authors on SSMT Agatha Christie Alice Munro Ambrose Bierce Amy Hempel Ann Beattie Anton Chekhov Arthur Conan Doyle Barry Hannah Bernard Malamud Carson McCullers Clarice Lispector Donald Barthelme Edgar Allan Poe Edna O'Brien Ernest Hemingway Eudora Welty F. Come back to this lady in a year, and may her future and yours justify us in the judgment which we have pronounced this night.” So long as the law does not find some other victim you are safe from me. Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?” Now, gentleman of the jury, you have heard the evidence. Watson, you are a British jury, and I never met a man who was more eminently fitted to represent one. And that’s quite a trick on Doyle’s part. It’s a golden move by a detective – you’re acting with supreme kindness but also rebellion against the system. He decides that the guilty party is not morally responsible and offers freedom. The end of “Abbey Grange” finds him acting as a one-man (well, Watson does contribute his opinion as well) courtroom. And quite often, as we see in “Abbey Grange,” he doesn’t even feel compelled to report the results of his detective work to them. He has no need for the police force’s help. One of the enduring qualities of Sherlock Holmes is his existence on the margins of society. The Adventure Of Abbey Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1904Īllowing Sherlock to bypass the judicial system entirely at story’s end

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