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The Adventure Of The Wax GamblersThe Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr is a Sherlock Holmes story. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. While waiting up late one night, Holmes and Watson are visited by the night watchman of a famous waxworks and his daughter. The watchman has noticed that the playing cards in the hand of a wax figure in a Chamber of Horrors exhibit have changed. Holmes becomes immediately interested in this mystery and sends Watson to the exhibit to remove the cards in an orderly fashion and to bring them back to him in some envelopes. Holmes then demonstrates that the altered cards are related to the scandalous behavior of a gentleman and his wagering on horse races. Wax Gamblers
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