The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax

These are the last twelve stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s and also include some of the wittiest passages in the series.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow (1917), and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and The American Magazine in the United States in December 1911.

"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the many stories to feature the writer's most famous character: Sherlock Holmes. Indeed, Britain's most notable fictional detective is on the case with his trusty partner Watson. Doyle was the master of mystery, and this book is no different, with many citing this installment, number 56 in the series, to be one of their favorites.

Holmes' much-needed spa vacation in Cornwall is cut short when a bizarre case crops up, prompting the famed detective and his assistant Watson to get involved. Although the strange tragedy that befalls a local family is initially blamed upon the Devil himself, Holmes' clever sleuthing proves that the true perpetrator was all too human.

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The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax' is one of the stories among 56 Sherlock Holmes adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax by Arthur Conan Doyle Included in the collection His Last Bow.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: Large Print by Arthur Conan Doyle over her account. The last check but one paid her bill at Lausanne, but it was a large one and probably left her with cash in hand. Only one check has been drawn since."

"Lady Frances," he continued, "is the sole survivor of the direct family of the late Earl of Rufton. The estates went, as you may remember, in the male line. She was left with limited means, but with some very remarkable old Spanish jewellery of silver and curiously cut diamonds to which she was fondly attached--too attached, for she refused to leave them with her banker and always carried them about with her. A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange change, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet."