Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 1 The Adventure of the Empty House It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was inter - ested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplic - able circumstances. The public has already learned those par - ticulars of the crime which came out in the police investiga - tion; but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts. Only