The Copper Beeches is a country house located in rural Hampshire in southern England, five miles outside of the county town of Winchester. Miss Violet Hunter was offered a position at this house providing child care for the son of Jephro Rucastle, and consulted with Sherlock Holmes about whether to take it; after accepting the job, however, she again found herself in need of Holmes' help to solve the mystery in which she found herself entangled.