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The Six Napoleons

"We have not discovered who he was," said Lestrade. "You shall see the body at the mortuary, but we have not found out anything about it yet. He is a tall man, sunburned, very strong, not more than thirty years old. He is has cheap clothes, and yet he does not appear to be a labourer. A clasp knife was lying beside him in a pool of blood. I do not know whether it was the weapon which killed the man, or whether it belonged to him. There was no name on the man's clothing, and nothing in his pockets except an apple, some string, a shilling map of London, and a photograph. Here it is."