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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . It was originally published in Collier\'s in the United States on 26 March 1904, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1904 . It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes . In this story Holmes is hired by the debutante Lady Eva Brackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Charles Augustus Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career . Milverton is the king of blackmailers and he makes his living out of blackmail .