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 (-5[1])The Name of the Rose. A naturalist in this novel steals the boot of a character whose clothes are given to the escaped convict Selden. This novel, which ends as Jack Stapleton (-5[1])drowns in Grimpen Mire, was its author’s first work after its protagonist (*) died in the 1893 story “The Final (-5[1])Problem.” (-5[1])The title creature of this novel is covered in phosphorus and scares to death a baron in Dartmoor. For 10 points, name this Arthur Conan Doyle novel in which Sherlock Holmes investigates a large dog. ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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