Stories / The Adventure of the Dancing Men
🕹️ Story game — free, no sign-upThe Fifth Message
Decode the last dancing-men message left at Ridling Thorpe — the one that arrived before the shots.
The stick-figures are a simple substitution — each symbol one letter. The earlier messages gave up AM HERE ABE SLANEY and AT ELRIGES; this final one was chalked where Elsie would see it. Transcribed symbol for symbol:
Drawn from The Adventure of the Dancing Men (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1903) — read the summary & analysis, or try The Substitution Drill, this story's analysis tool. More at the Game Room and the tool bench.