"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a Sherlock Holmes short story published in 1908. When John Scott Eccles visits Holmes to discuss something "grotesque," he becomes entangled in a murder investigation involving a mysterious disappearance from Wisteria Lodge. Holmes uncovers a web of political intrigue stretching from Central America to England, involving a fugitive dictator hiding under a false identity and a governess with a dark mission of revenge. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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