The Man with the Watches is the third of Arthur Conan Doyle ’s five short stories about Sherlock Holmes that are not included in the canon.
Like The Disappeared Emergency Train , this story appeared in Strand magazine in 1898, and later in Round the Fire Stories and Tales of Terror and Mystery .
| Man with a clock | |
|---|---|
| The man with the watches | |
| Genre | detective |
| Author | Doyle, Arthur Conan |
| Original language | English |
| Date of first publication | 1898 |
Story
The story develops according to a similar scenario: this time the mystery consists in the appearance of a dead man in a railway carriage with six pocket watches in a jacket. An amateur detective offers an explanation of what happened, but the author notes that the explanation has flaws, as it does not include all the facts. Later, one of the participants in the incident writes a letter to the detective, in which he notes that his version is "extremely inventive", but completely incorrect, and then sets out the true course of events.