A Study in Scarlet, Chapter 6 summary
Chapter 6 of 14 · Part 1 · 13 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 6, Tobias Gregson announces Arthur Charpentier's arrest and explains how Drebber's abuse of Arthur's sister gives him a possible motive for murder. Holmes listens to Gregson's confident account, but Lestrade interrupts with news that Joseph Stangerson is also murdered, opening another part of the case.
What happens
- Newspapers offer political explanations for Drebber's death, while Holmes mocks their reliable praise for the police.
- Holmes pays six street boys for their search and tells Wiggins to continue investigating an unnamed point.
- Gregson announces Arthur Charpentier's arrest and explains how a hat seller leads him to Drebber's boardinghouse.
- Gregson recounts Madame Charpentier's testimony about Drebber's drunken attacks on Alice and Arthur's pursuit of him.
- Gregson proposes that Arthur kills Drebber with a club and arranges misleading evidence, despite Arthur's account of a cab and shipmate.
- Lestrade arrives looking distressed and announces Stangerson's murder at a hotel that morning.
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