The Case of the King of Scandinavia

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Fictional case.


In the Sherlock Holmes stories

Untold Story


'A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Mr Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand you have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of society.'
'No, I am descending.'
'I beg pardon?'
'My last client of the sort was a king.'
'Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?'
'The King of Scandinavia.
'What! Had he lost his wife?'
'You can understand,' said Holmes suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.'
— Lord St. Simon & Sherlock Holmes.