Yellow face

The Adventure of the Yellow Face - Arthur Conan Doyle's story from the detective series Sherlock Holmes. The first published in The Strand Magazine in February 1893, the next in the Sherlock Holmes memoirs in 1894. The illustrations were done by Sidney Paget.

Holmes' help is available to wealthy client Grant Munro. He married Effie a few years ago, a young widow of an American lawyer dying of fever. They lived in a villa in Norbury. Munro noticed that for several weeks his wife secretly visited a neighboring cottage, where a woman was making a nasty impression. Effie responds with a twisted response. In the window of the cottage he saw a strange yellow face, which disturbed him even more.

Holmes thinks that Effie's first husband is still alive and is hiding in this house, probably blackmailing her. Upon arriving at the place, it appears that Effie hid her daughter Lucy, who she brought from America, under the mask. Effie's first husband was black and feared Munro's reaction. Munro kisses the girl like her own child with words I'm not so good again, Effie, but probably better than you thought.

After returning to Baker Street, Holmes asks Watson to remind him of the matter, if you ever notice that I'm getting too presumptuous or that I treat something a little.

The puzzle, as in the Noble bible,

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