The Naval Treaty
Complete textWatson brings Holmes the case of Percy Phelps, whose loss of a sensitive diplomatic document has endangered his career. The disappearance occurred under circumstances that leave him distressed and investigators uncertain. Holmes examines the office events and the household arrangements surrounding Phelps’s subsequent illness.
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Professional catastrophe makes the client both an important witness and a person under severe emotional pressure. The narrative asks readers to distinguish an absence of apparent opportunity from proof that something could not happen. Compare official explanations with Holmes’s attention to ordinary movements, and notice how trust within a household can direct suspicion away from facts that still require examination.
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Follow the missing document through office routines and household assumptions, testing apparent impossibilities against the movements people take for granted.
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods. I find them recorded in my notes under the headings of “The Adventure of the Second Stain,” “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty,” and “The Adventure of the Tired Captain.” The first of these, however, deals with interest of such importance and implicates so many of the first families in the kingdom that for many years it will be impossible to make it public. No case, however, in which Holmes was engaged has ever illustrated the value of his analytical methods so clearly or has impressed those who…
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