16.06.2025 • 47 Min.

"The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, part of The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the UK in August 1904 and in Collier's in the US on November 26, 1904. The story centers on Holmes being approached by Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, to find Godfrey Staunton, a key rugby player whose sudden disappearance threatens the team's chances in an important upcoming match.