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[theblackempress]

I just finished reading the short-story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, while reading the part with the woman sitting in the window struck me as really familiar. I have a vague memory of reading about a man who saw a woman sitting in a window but when they realized he was watching they shut it. Is there another Doyle-story which tells a

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Re: Copper Beeches, window scene

[disassembly_rsn]

There's an online PDF of the complete Sherlock Holmes; searching through it for 'window' turns up the following.

You might be thinking of "The Man with the Twisted Lip". In that, the wife of the missing man sees him at a window, flailing about wildly, before he 'vanished from the window'.

In 'The Speckled Band', Holmes and Watson arrange with their client to signal them by putting a light in her window, then changing rooms. They don't see her afterward, but then they weren't supposed to.

In 'The Beryl Coronet', a woman has been meeting with someone at a window and hands something out to that person; at one point she's very nearly caught, but shuts the window behind her and acts as though she's been checking that all the windows are closed. The viewpoint there, though, is from the inside and not the outside of the building.

In 'The Yellow Face', Holmes' client sees the face at a window before it 'disappears'.

I don't think you're thinking of The Hound of the Baskervilles; there's a case of signalling *from* a window via a light,

Re: Copper Beeches, window scene

[goldvermilion87]

My first thought was Twisted Lip. I'm 99.9% certain that there's nothing like that in The Vally of Fear.

[theblackempress]

It's none of the stories in 'The adventures of SH' short story collection, I searched the pdf but couldn't find what I was looking for... Other than 'The adventures of SH' I've only read 'A study in scarlet' and 'The sign of the four'.
More detailed what I remember is there is a client outside a house, he sees a woman sitting in the window. I don't remember if it's at that time or if he comes back but the shutters of the window closes/are closed by someone) and that woman is either his wife/lover or similar... I'm starting to think it might have been something entirely different or a fanfic or something
Or I'm just going crazy xD

[hey_feygele]

The lady in the window set up makes me think of "The Adventure of the Red Circle", where their client is a landlady who thought she was renting a room to some man but it turns out there's an Italian lady living there. But that is from His Last Bow, which probably means that's not it. :(