{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5df1","title":"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman","publish_year":1926,"publish_source":"Liberty","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-retired-colourman","words":5498,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","adventure"],"description":"A painter comes to Holmes asking for help finding his wife, who he believes ran off with his neighbour and all their money. Holmes, busy with another case, sends Watson to investigate.","blurb":"“He tore up one of his wife’s photographs in my presence—tore it up furiously in a tempest of passion. ‘I never wish to see her damned face again,’ he shrieked.”","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Two men sit on chairs, one recling while smoking a pipe.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}