In 1888, a client Mary Morstan comes with, two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father, also British. Indian Army), Captain Arthur Morstan in December 1878. According, to Mary her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return. From India and requested her to meet him at the) Langham Hotel) in London. When Mary arrived at, the hotelShe was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite, all efforts no trace has ever been found. Of him. Mary contacted her father 's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England one Major,, John Sholto but he, denied knowing her father had returned.The second puzzle is that she has received six pearls in the mail from an, anonymous benefactor one per year since 1882 after. Answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she received a letter remarking that she has. Been a wronged woman and asking for a meeting.Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began. To receive the pearls implying a, connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father s. ' Desk with the names of Jonathan Small and. "Three Sikhs named Kartar Singh Jagodish Singh, and Inderjeet Singh.
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