&quot;The Adventure of the Creeping Man" (1923) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published in Strand Magazine October 1921 – April 1927. A man named Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is Professor Presbury&apos;s personal secretary, and Mr. Bennett is also engaged to the professor&apos;s only daughter, Edith. Professor Presbury is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, a colleague&apos;s daughter, although he himself is already 61 years of age. Their impending marriage does not seem to have caused a great scandal, so that is not Mr Bennett&apos;s problem. Nonetheless, the trouble seems to have begun at about the time of Professor Presbury&apos;s and Alice&apos;s engagement. First, the professor suddenly left home for a fortnight without telling anyone where he was going. He returned looking rather travel-worn, and it was only through a letter from a friend sent to Mr Bennett that the family learnt that Professor Presbury had been to Prague.

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