The Adventure of the Second Stain [SEP] characters
The Adventure of the Second Stain
"The Adventure of the Second Stain", 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" and the only unrecorded case mentioned passively by Watson to be written.
Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Second Stain" eighth in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.
Synopsis.
Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope
Adventure of the Second Stain" is set in July 1888, in the middle of summer, whereas Watson says in the published version of "The Second Stain" that the case happened in autumn.
Watson states that, due to Holmes's retirement, the detective has been trying to avoid publicity, and only allowed Watson to publish the story because the doctor had "promised" to in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty."
A spy called Oberstein appears both in this story and in "The Adventure of