When the visitor, Mr Grant Munro (whose name Holmes observed from his hatband) returns, Holmes and Watson hear the story of Munro's deception by his wife Effie.

None of these deductions is particularly germane to the story: they are merely Holmesian logical exercises. From it, Holmes deduces that he was disturbed of mind (because he forgot the pipe) that he valued it highly (because he had repaired, rather than replaced, it when it was broken) that he was muscular, left-handed, had excellent teeth, was careless in his habits and was well-off. Sherlock Holmes, suffering from boredom due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr Watson in the early spring of 1888 to find he has missed a visitor, but that the caller has left his pipe behind. As is evident from the story, in British society of the time, having contracted an interracial marriage and having a mixed race child was not in any way illegal - but still was treated as a shameful secret to be kept closely hidden, and one whose revelation might entail very negative reactions. The story is written and set in the United Kingdom, a country with no anti-miscegenation laws, though not without racial prejudice.

It has been remarked that Doyle's sympathetic treatment of interracial marriage could be considered extraordinarily liberal because, at that time, anti-miscegenation laws were in effect in several countries. Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered.' '.where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded. One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect (Nevertheless, the truth still comes out). It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face' is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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