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The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby union team (who plays at the three-quarters position, hence the story's title) and they will not win the important match tomorrow against Oxford if Staunton cannot be found.

Iz mnozhestva zagadochnyh telegramm, prihodivshih na Bejker-strit, mne osobenno zapomnilas' odna, kotoruju prinesli hmurym fevral'skim utrom let sem' ili vosem' nazad. Telegramma byla adresovana Sherloku Holmsu, i v nej govorilos': «Podozhdite menja. Uzhasnoe neschast'e. Ischez pravyj trehchetvertnoj. Krajne neobhodim zavtra. Overton». Celyj chas prosidel Holms, razmyshljaja nad nej v nedoumenii.»

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.