An extra illustration was needed for the story's publication in two parts. The story was published with seven illustrations by Gilbert Holiday in the Strand, and with eight illustrations in the US edition of the Strand. It was first published in the United States in the US edition of the Strand in January and February 1911. "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" was first published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in December 1910.
Holmes' sympathies in this matter lie with Sterndale, and he tells him to go back to his work in Africa and never return. It is revealed that Sterndale was passionately in love with Brenda Tregennis, but was still married to his first wife. Sterndale once described the powder to Mortimer Treginnis, who later stole some from Sterndale's collection of African curiosities, then murdered his siblings by throwing it on the fire just before he left. It comes from a plant called the Devil’s-foot root. Sterndale confesses that he held Mortimer at gunpoint and forced him to breathe the poison. Holmes reveals that Mortimer Tregennis is guilty of the first crime and further deduces that Dr. Holmes deduces that a poison, activated by combustion and affecting the cognitive functions, is the murder weapon there were fires burning in both murder rooms, and people who entered them either felt ill or fainted. A lamp is lit and smoking on the table beside the dead man. The two men, along with Watson, rush to Mortimer's room. The next morning, the vicar informs Holmes that Mortimer Tregennis has died in the same way as his sister. He asks Holmes what his suspicions are, and is displeased when Holmes will not voice them. Leon Sterndale, a famous hunter-explorer and a cousin of the Tregennises, aborts his sailing from Plymouth after the vicar wires him with the tragic news. The next morning, the housekeeper found the trio still sitting in their places at the table the brothers, George and Owen, had gone insane, and the sister, Brenda, was dead.ĭr. The night before, Tregennis had gone to visit his three siblings, played whist with them, and then left. Roundhay and his lodger Mortimer Tregennis visit Holmes, asking for his assistance. The holiday ends when the local vicar Mr.
Watson find themselves at Poldhu in Cornwall one spring. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow.ĭoyle ranked "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. " The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" from 1910 is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. 1910 illustration by Gilbert Holiday - Holmes and Watson view Brenda Tregennis' body
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