Guilt in The Abbey Grange

"vox populi, vox dei" [ABBE] Sir Eustace Brackenstall met with a grisly, if appropriate end in "The Abbey Grange." Ultimately, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson let his killer go free. But was Captain Crocker solely responsible for Brackenstall's death? Other individuals were involved with the calm plotting of the aftermath of the death — but whose shoulders bear the ultimate brunt of the guilt in the end?   Links "The Abbey Grange" "The game's afoot" as found in King Henry's speech "Once more unto the breach" in Henry V.