The Adventure of the Second Stain

About “The Adventure of the Second Stain”

"The Adventure of the Second Stain" is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is part of the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and is the only unrecorded case mentioned by Watson. Doyle listed it as his eighth favorite Holmes story among his twelve favorites. The story is included in several collections, such as Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It is also available in other published works and translations.