“The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk” is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A young clerk, Hall Pycroft, consults Holmes with his suspicions concerning a company that has offered him a very well-paid job. Holmes, Watson and Pycroft travel by train to Birmingham, where the job is initially to be based, and Pycroft explains that he was recently made redundant from a stockbroking house.