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DERLETH, August - The Adventure of the Seven Passengers (A Solar Pons story)文档

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEVEN PASSENGERS A Solar Pons story By August Derleth (From Regarding Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons, Copyright 1945 by August Derleth) Version 1.0 - January 26, 2002 THERE IS a certain name which, when mentioned in his presence, invariably causes my friend Solar Pons to look up with a challenging glint in his eyes but a certain grim tightness of his lips, starting in his mind a reminiscence which embraces some of the most interesting cases of his entire career as an investigator of those curious manifestations of criminal activity which reveal the workings of the human mind. Pons had several encounters with the work of the Baron Ennesfred Kroll, who first came to Pons attention in a social capacity, for Pons had met him at a ball given at the German Embassy late in 1929, where Kroll, who was a social lion, was a compelling figure, despite his stooped shoulders and his sinister appearance, moving among the throngs at the Embassy ball with a singular ability to attract people to him. Pons regarded Baron Ennesfred Kroll as the prototype of the arch-criminal, and found himself ultimately involved in several adventures in which he recognized the hand of the baron, before he was enabled to trap him. Of these, perhaps two--those chronicled in my notes under the headings of The Adventure of the Seven Passengers, and The Adventure of the Lost Holiday,--are most fascinating. The curious affair of the seven passengers was brought to Pons attention early one morning in January, 1930. Pons had preceded me to the breakfast table that morning, and was engaged in reading the reports in the Times relating to the Naval Limitations Conference then in progress in London. Anything new? I asked, as I sat down opposite him. Pons shrugged. Not in the city. An interesting murder in Kent, a robbery of some ingenuity in a small village south of London; beyond those, nothing. But here, he continued, tapping the paper at his elbow, is an admirable opening f