What did Holmes and Watson see through the keyhole?

A face with a horrible smile. (Bartholomeu’s dead body).

How did Bartholomew Sholto die?

With a poisonous thorn stuck in his ear.

What else made Thaddeus Sholto upset?

The Great Agra Treasure had gone.

How did Holmes know that a man with a wooden leg had been in the room?

He saw some marks on the window-sill and on the floor. Some were footprints but some were in the shape of small circles. The circles were the marks of a wooden.

How did Watson think the wooden-legged man had got into the room?

He said that someone else had got into the room first. Then he had thrown a rope out of the window to the wooden-legged man climb up the rope.

What was strange about the footprints in the thick dust?

They were the prints of bare feet. And they were very small.

Describe murderer Number One.

He was a very small man – a pygmy from some foreign land. He was very strong and could climb great heights easily