The Adventure of the Dark Angels

The Adventure of the Dark Angels is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.

Plot

Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive at their residence to discover that Daphne Ferrers is waiting to consult with Holmes about the behavior of her father, Josua Ferrers of Abbotstanding in Hampshire. Not only has her father selected the most isolated abode after retiring from his business interests in Sicily, but he has become even more reclusive and agitated due to the appearance of pictures of angels of death on his property. After a few calculations, Holmes knows that he must move quickly to prevent a tragedy, but arrives too late to save Josua Ferrers' life.^[1]

Holmes scrambled into the fork of the tree and, supporting himself by the branches, peered about him. "Ha, what have we here!" he chuckled. "A fresh scrape on the trunk, traces of mud in the fork and another small thread from some coarse brownish material clinging to the bark where a man might lean his back. Quite a treasure–trove."

References

↑ The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, Chapter 9

Sherlock Holmes Novels by people other than Arthur Conan Doyle

Young Sherlock Holmes by Andy Lane	Death Cloud (2010) Red Leech (2010) Black Ice (2011) Fire Storm (2011)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr	"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1954) "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1954) "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1954) "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1954) "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1954) "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1954 "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1954) "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1954) "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1954) "The Adventure of the Two Women" (1954) "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1954) "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1954)

by Nicholas Meyer	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) The West End Horror (1976) The Canary Trainer (1993)

Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King	The Beekeeper's Apprentice A Monstrous Regiment of Women A Letter of Mary The Moor O Jerusalem Justice Hall The Game Locked Rooms The Language of Bees The God of the Hive Pirate King Garment of Shadows Dreaming Spies

The Boy Sherlock Holmes by Shane Peacock	Death in the Air (2008)

by Barrie Roberts	Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac

by Anthony Horowitz	The House of Silk (2011) Moriarty (2014)

Other works	Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) The Ultimate Crime (1976) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) "The Doctor's Case" (1987) All-Consuming Fire (1994) The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat (1997) The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) "A Study in Emerald" (2003) Sherlock Holmes: The Way of All Flesh (2004) A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) The Italian Secretary (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2006) Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2007) The Boy Sherlock Holmes (2007–12) Gaslight series (2008) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (2010) Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011) Dead Man's Land (2013)

Parody	The Enola Holmes Mysteries Everybody's Favorite Duck The Final Solution The Fossil Island Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries Sherlock Bones Stoker and Holmes Thuppariyum Sambu

Related	Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes