The Story of the Club-Footed Grocer

"The Story of the Club-Footed Grocer"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Text available at Wikisource
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publication
Published in	The Strand Magazine
Publication type	Print, magazine
Publication date	November 1898

"The Story of the Club-Footed Grocer" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in The Strand Magazine .

Plot

It is a nineteenth-century short story about a man who goes to help his wealthy uncle, once a grocer and trader of jewellery and expensive artifacts. The narrator does not know why he is called to help his uncle until he arrives and finds that his uncle has a death threat from someone who wants something the uncle possesses.

External links

• Round the Fires Stories at Project Gutenberg
• "The Story of the Club-Footed Grocer" title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database