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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.

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.

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.