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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, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's. Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

V jetom pamjatnom 1895 godu Holms proizvel celyj rjad ljubopytnyh i raznoobraznyh issledovanij, nachinaja s vyjasnenija prichin vnezapnoj smerti kardinala Toski (po nastojatel'nomu zhelaniju Vatikana) i konchaja arestom prestupnika Uilsona; jetot znamenityj trener kanareek byl vmeste s tem istinnoj jazvoj londonskogo Ist-Jenda. Vsled za jetimi gromkimi delami voznikla tragedija v Vudmens-Li: kapitan Piter Kern pogib pri samyh strashnyh i tainstvennyh obstojatel'stvah.

Once again Arthur Conan Doyle presents a series of cases which baffle the police, but are no match for Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion, Dr. Watson.

El inspector Stanley Hopkins, siente admiración por Sherlock Holmes y le va a pedir que le ayude a descubrir el autor del violento asesinato del capitán Peter Carey, que es conocido como “el negro”. El capitán Carey era un antiguo cazador de focas, a bordo de su barco el Unicornio del mar, que vivía retirado con su esposa y su hija cerca de Forest Row. Era muy violento y siempre estaba borracho. Un día, apareció clavado en la pared de su cabaña con su propio arpón de pesca.

Jealous of Taug and Teeka's relationship with their baby, Tarzan kidnaps Tibo, a little boy from the neighboring village to be his own "balu". He tries with indifferent success to teach the terrified and homesick child ape ways. Meanwhile, Momaya, Tibo's mother does everything she can think of to find and recover her son, even visiting the hermit witch-doctor Bukawai, a terrible, diseased exile who keeps two fearsome hyenas as pets. He names a price for recovering Tibo she cannot afford, and she leaves disappointed.