The Adventure of the Priory School

The Adventure of the Priory School is a detective short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1904. It is one of the Sherlock Holmes stories and belongs to the group later collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The story begins with a case connected to a private school and follows Holmes as he pieces together clues, studies relationships between people and places, and moves through the investigation by careful observation rather than by dramatic action.

This is a good fit for readers who like classic detective fiction, compact writing, and a mystery that depends on reasoning more than on spectacle. Since it is a single short story, it is easy to pick up even without deep familiarity with the wider series. Readers who want Holmes in a direct, focused form, with an English atmosphere and an investigation built from questions, clues, and deductions, will find it very much in line with the canon of Sherlock Holmes and with Doyle's classic crime-writing style.