Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

Holmes?'

I made up my mind that the fellow was in hiding in the house,'

When I paced one corridor, and found it six feet shorter than the corresponding one below, it was pretty clear where he was.

I thought he had not the nerve to lie quiet before an alarm of fire.

We could, of course, have gone in and taken him, but it amused me to make him reveal himself.

Besides, I owed you a little mystification, Lestrade, for your chafe in the morning."

"'Well, sir—'

"'You certainly got equal with me on that.

But how in the world did you know that he was in the house at all?'

"'The thumb-mark, Lestrade.

You said it was final, and so it was, in a very different sense.

I knew it had not been there the day before.

I pay a good deal of attention to matters of detail, as you may have observed, and I had examined the hall and was sure that the wall was clear.'

Therefore, it had been put on during the night.

"'But how?'

"'Very simply.

When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got Macfarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.

It would be done so quickly and so naturally that I dare say the young man himself has no recollection of it.

Very likely it just so happened, and Oldacre had himself no notion of the use he would put it to.'

brooding over the case in that den of his, it suddenly struck him what absolutely damning evidence he could make against Macfarlane by using that thumb-mark.

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