The Adventure of the Three Gables

This was a strange but dated adventure. There is a decent amount of racist stereotyping and sexism, which I struggled with.

Mary Maberley asks Holmes for help. She's an elderly woman who lives in a house called the Three Gables. Holmes becomes interested as a hired thug, Steve Dixie, threatens him not to get involved. Holmes finds out a man named Haimes-Johnson has approached Mrs. Maberley. He said he was acting on behalf of someone who wanted to buy her house and all its contents. Mrs. Maberley turned down the offer. The reason: the buyer would not allow her to remove anything from the house.

Holmes suspects that Haimes-Johnson's mysterious client wants something valuable which, unknown to her, has recently come into Mrs. Maberley's possession. There is a robbery at the Three Gables. The only items that are taken are from trunks that arrived a few days earlier. These contain the personal effects of Mrs. Maberley's recently deceased son.

Not bad. But not the best.