The Club-Footed Grocer
"The Clubfooted Grocer" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in The Strand Magazine.
Plot
It is a nineteenth-century short story about a man who goes to help his wealthy uncle, once a grocer and trader of jewelry and expensive artifacts. The narrator doesn’t know why he is called to help his uncle until he arrives and finds that his uncle has a death threat from someone who wants something the uncle possesses.
External links
- Telling tales - Edxcel pages 19–34
- Arthur Conan Doyle Society
References
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Arthur Conan Doyle
(canon)
- A Study in Scarlet (1887)
- The Sign of the Four (1890)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904)
- The Valley of Fear (1914)
- His Last Bow (1917)
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
- The Lost World (1912)
- The Poison Belt (1913)
- The Land of Mist (1926)
- "When the World Screamed" (1928)
- "The Disintegration Machine" (1929)
- The Narrative of John Smith (1883) [2011]
- The Mystery of Cloomber (1889)
- Micah Clarke (1889)
- The Firm of Girdlestone (1890)
- The White Company (1891)
- The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892)
- Beyond the City (1892)
- The Great Shadow (1892)
- The Refugees (1893)
- The Parasite (1894)
- The Stark Munro Letters (1895)
- The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896)
- Rodney Stone (1896)
- The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898)
- A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899)
- Adventures of Gerard (1903)
- Sir Nigel (1906)
- The Maracot Deep (1929)
- "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884)
- "Lot No. 249" (1892)
- "The Case of Lady Sannox" (1893)
- "The Club-Footed Grocer" (1898)
- "The Brown Hand" (1899)
- "The Terror of Blue John Gap" (1910)
- "The Horror of the Heights" (1913)
- Danger! and Other Stories (1918)
- "The Inner Room" (1898)
- "The Crime of the Congo" (1909)
- The Vital Message (1919)
- FairyTale: A True Story (1997 film)
- Photographing Fairies (1997 film)
- Arthur & George (2015 miniseries)
- Houdini & Doyle (2016 miniseries)
- Adrian Conan Doyle (son)
- Jean Conan Doyle (daughter)
- Charles Altamont Doyle (father)
- John Doyle (grandfather)
- The Great Wyrley Outrages
- Undershaw (home)
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