How does Sherlock Holmes find out that skill and strength is needed to use a harpoon for murder?ill mark u brainliest plz ans fast.....
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Answer:
"The Adventure of Black Peter" is a
Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan
Doyle. This tale is in the collection
The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was
originally published in Collier's (US)
in February 1904 and in The Strand
Magazine (UK) in March 1904.[1]
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Explanation:
Sherlock Holmes has just returned from trying to spear a dead pig at a butcher shop (really!) when a new visitor needing his help appears. The man is Stanley Hopkins, a police detective whose respect for Holmes is likened to ''the admiration and respect of a pupil for the scientific methods of the famous amateur.''
Hopkins tells Holmes and Watson about a murder under his jurisdiction involving a man and a harpoon. The victim is 50-year-old Peter Carey, a ''silent, gloomy fellow'' and ''intermittent drunkard.'' He was not well-liked and was abusive to his wife, daughter and those aboard the ship he used to command. The man had earned the nickname ''Black Peter,'' not only for his ''swarthy features and the colour of his huge beard, but for the humours which were the terror of all around him.'' In short, he was a bad dude