Round 3: Tossup 9

A butler in this novel uses a candle to signal to a character who hides in a crevice of rocks. A combination of William of Ockham and this novel’s title inspired the name of a friar in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. A (-5[1])naturalist in this novel steals (-5[1])the boot (-5[1])of a character whose clothes are given to the escaped convict Selden. This novel, which ends as Jack Stapleton drowns in Grimpen Mire, was its author’s first work after its protagonist (*) died in the 1893 story “The Final Problem.” (-5[2])The title creature (-5[1])of this (-5[1])novel is covered in phosphorus (10[1])and scares (-5[1])to death a baron in Dartmoor. For 10 points, name this Arthur Conan Doyle novel in which (-5[1])Sherlock Holmes (10[1])investigates (10[1]-5[1])a large dog. ■END■ (10[6])

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