The Adventure of the Priory School - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

'Priory School' opens in a most exciting fashion!

The story opens, in the words of Dr. Watson, with "We have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at Baker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startling than the first appearance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc. His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity. And yet his first action when the door had closed behind him was to stagger against the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearthrug."

A young student at Huxtable's school has disappeared, the son of a former Cabinet Minister. Once recovered from his fainting spell, Huxtable implores Holmes to come back with him to Mackleton in the north of England to get to the bottom of this terrible occurrence.