Summary of the case of the sharp eyed jeweller by nicolas bentley
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Shop assistant in jewellery shop displays precious antique rings to a prospective customer an American when one of the jewels goes missing. This detective story the detective is not “an extraordinary person or extraordinarily favoured by fortune” but “just an ordinary man who uses his common sense to the full”.
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William Morris is the narrator . He is highly observant and uses common sense to the fullest . He had a hobby of reading crime fiction . He was an assistant jeweller in a highly reputed shop Regnier's . Regnier's was famous for antique jewellery .
On one morning , Morris was arranging the jewellry on the display when he saw that a young woman was standing out of the Undertaker's shop and was staring at the urns and the photographs of the grave stones as if someone she loved had passed away .
After 15 - 20 minutes a man came into the shop . Morris came to know that the man was an American due to his accent and dressing sense . He was chewing a gum too. He did not have any sense of jewellery .
He asks Morris to show him some rings . Morris places the tray of rings in front of him . He asks him which was the most expensive and tells him show him the ring which were placed in the safe behind . Morris turns back and comes to know that the ring went missing . The man was taken to search in the office . Just after this , the same woman enters the shop with an excuse of repairing a cheap brooch. Morris informs him that Regnier's don't do repairs . He noticed that she was a right handed person . While packing the brooch in the paper packet she swept it off with her hand towards Morris' side . Morris bents to pick it up and everything clicked in his mind he understands everything . She took the packet with her left hand and tried to leave the shop as soon as possible . Morris stopped her and found the ring in her right pocket . They made a plan that the American would past the ring underneath the table with a gum. The lady then would take the ring away but Morris saved and restored it with hid intelligence