The Adventure of the Dancing Men

“The Dancing Men” (English: The Adventure of the Dancing Men) is one of 56 short stories by English writer Arthur Conan Doyle about the detective Sherlock Holmes, included by the author in the collection of 13 stories “The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” published in the Strand magazine.

Another Holmes case is spun around strange dancing men—at first glance, an innocent children’s drawing.