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Inspector Lestrade

There was one little sallow, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow.

"A well-known detective. He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here.” (
Sherlock Holmes)

(
Lestrade) lean and ferret-like as ever, was standing by the doorway, and greeted my companion and myself.

Scotland Yard

“I’d rather have you than Scotland Yard, Mr. Holmes.” (Sergeant Coventry)
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Scotland Yard, London

“I have been down to see friend Lestrade at the Yard.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Arabian nights

A minute later we were in an Arabian Nights drawing-room, vast and wonderful.
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Footman

A machine-like footman took up our cards.
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Belle dame sans merci

"But she is the ‘belle dame sans merci’ of fiction." (Sherlock Holmes)
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Chloroform

“I was conscious for a moment of the chloroform rag which was thrust over my mouth.” (Mary Maberley)
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Bow window

This strange, languid creature spent his waking hours in the bow window of a St. James’s Street club.
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Annuity

“Poor Douglas had only his pay and a small annuity.” (Mary Maberley)
  • A fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life : he left her an annuity of £1,000 in his will.

Crown Derby

“No, I don’t think I have anything rarer than a Crown Derby tea-set.” (Mary Maberley)
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Post Office Bank

“Of course, when people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Paregoric

“Good-bye, Susan. Paregoric is the stuff.... " (Sherlock Holmes)
  • A medicine consisting of opium flavoured with camphor, aniseed, and benzoic acid, formerly used to treat diarrhea and coughing in children.

Attaché

"He was attache at Rome." (Mary Maberley)
  • A person on the staff of an ambassador, typically with a specialized area of responsibility.

Sherlock Holmes - Deductions

“It is this Harrow Weald case. It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone’s while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.” Read More...

Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations

Holmes knocked out the ashes of his pipe with a quiet chuckle. Read More...

Sherlock Holmes - Sayings

“You can’t play with edged tools forever without cutting those dainty hands.” Read More...

Susan Stockdale - Housemaid

“One of them got into the house as servant.” (Isadora Klein)

Burnt remains of the novel written by Douglas Maberley

She broke into a ripple of laughter and walked to the fireplace. There was a calcined mass which she broke up with the poker. “Shall I give this back?” she asked. (Isadora Klein)

Note from Sherlock Holmes to Isadora Klein

He scribbled three or four words upon a sheet of his notebook, folded it, and handed it to the man.
“I simply wrote: ‘Shall it be the police, then?’”

Final page of Douglas Maberley's novel

“There was one sheet of paper which I may have torn from the man that I grasped. It was lying all crumpled on the floor. It is in my son’s handwriting.” (Mary Maberley)

“. . . face bled considerably from the cuts and blows, but it was nothing to the bleeding of his heart as he saw that lovely face, the face for which he had been prepared to sacrifice his very life, looking out at his agony and humiliation. She smiled — yes, by Heaven! she smiled, like the heartless fiend she was, as he looked up at her. It was at that moment that love died and hate was born. Man must live for something. If it is not for your embrace, my lady, then it shall surely be for your undoing and my complete revenge.”

Telegram from Mr Sutro to Sherlock Holmes

Please come out at once. Client’s house burgled in the night. Police in possession.
SUTRO.

Messages passed between Susan and Barney Stockdale

“Your letter to me had the 10 P.M. postmark. And yet Susan passes the word to Barney. Barney has time to go to his employer and get instructions; he or she — I incline to the latter from Susan’s grin when she thought I had blundered — forms a plan. Black Steve is called in, and I am warned off by eleven o’clock next morning.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Letter from Mary Maberley to Sherlock Holmes

DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:
I have had a succession of strange incidents occur to me in connection with this house, and I should much value your advice. You would find me at home any time to-morrow. The house is within a short walk of the Weald Station. I believe that my late husband, Mortimer Maberley, was one of your early clients.
Yours faithfully, MARY MABERLEY.

The Case of Mortimer Maberley

“I believe that my late husband, Mortimer Maberley, was one of your early clients.” (Mary Maberley)

“I remember your husband well, madam,” said Holmes, “though it is some years since he used my services in some trifling matter.”

Spencer John Gang

"He is one of the Spencer John gang and has taken part in some dirty work of late which I may clear up when I have time." (Sherlock Holmes)

Pernambuco

“Her people have been leaders in Pernambuco for generations.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Scotland Yard, London

“Stop! Where are you going?”
“To Scotland Yard.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Grosvenor Square, London

Home of Isadora Klein.
It was one of the finest corner-houses of the West End.
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Cairo, Maderia, the Riviera

“Where would you like to go — Cairo, Madeira, the Riviera?” (Sherlock Holmes)
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St. James's Street club

Where Langdale Pike spent his days.
This strange, languid creature spent his waking hours in the bow window of a St. James’s Street club and was the receivingstation as well as the transmitter for all the gossip of the metropolis.
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Milano-Lucerne

As we passed through the hall Holmes’s eyes, which missed nothing, lighted upon several trunks and cases which were piled in a corner. The labels shone out upon them.
“ ‘Milano.’ ‘Lucerne.’ These are from Italy.”
“They are poor Douglas’s things.” (Mary Maberley)
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Harrow, London

“Mr. Sutro, my lawyer, who lives in Harrow.” (Mary Maberley)
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Rome, Italy

“He was attaché at Rome, and he died there of pneumonia last month.” (Mary Maberley)
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Three Gables, Harrow Weald

A brick and timber villa, standing in its own acre of undeveloped grassland. Three small projections above the upper windows made a feeble attempt to justify its name. Behind was a grove of melancholy, half-grown pines, and the whole aspect of the place was poor and depressing.
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Bull Ring, Birmingham

“ I was trainin’ at the Bull Ring in Birmingham when this boy done gone get into trouble.” (Steve Dixie)
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Holborn Bar, London

“But it was the killing of young Perkins outside the Holborn — Bar." (Sherlock Holmes)
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Footman to Isadora Klein

A machine-like footman took up our cards and returned with word that the lady was not at home.

Duke of Lomond

“I hear that she is about to marry the young Duke of Lomond, who might almost be her son.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Two burglars

“When I woke, one man was at the bedside and another was rising with a bundle in his hand from among my son’s baggage, which was partially opened and littered over the floor. Before he could get away I sprang up and seized him.” (Mary Maberley)

Mary

Maidservant to Mary Maberley.

Our friend of yesterday, looking very pale and ill, had entered the room, leaning upon a little maidservant.

Couple of Constables

Who were examining the windows and the geranium beds outside ‘Three Gables’.

Police Inspector

A bustling, rubicund inspector, who greeted Holmes as an old friend.

Langdale Pike

Langdale Pike was his human book of reference upon all matters of social scandal. This strange, languid creature spent his waking hours in the bow window of a St. James’s Street club and was the receivingstation as well as the transmitter for all the gossip of the metropolis. He made, it was said, a four-figure income by the paragraphs which he contributed every week to the garbage papers which cater to an inquisitive public. If ever, far down in the turbid depths of London life, there was some strange swirl or eddy, it was marked with automatic exactness by this human dial upon the surface. Holmes discreetly helped Langdale to knowledge, and on occasion was helped in turn.

Captain Ferguson

A retired sea captain who had owned Mary Maberley’s house before her.

Susan Stockdale

Wife of Barney Stockdale.

A great gaunt woman whom he had seized by the shoulder. She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.

Mr Sutro

Mrs Mary Maberley’s lawyer who lived in Harrow.

“Is that lawyer of yours a capable man?”
“Mr. Sutro is most capable.” (Mary Maberley)

Haines-Johnson, Auctioneer and Valuer

“Three days ago I had a call from a man who said that he was a house agent. He said that this house would exactly suit a client of his, and that if I would part with it money would be no object.” (Mary Maberley)

Mortimer Maberley

Husband of Mary Maberley. He had been one of Holmes' early clients. Read More...

Spencer John Gang

“He is one of the Spencer John gang and has taken part in some dirty work of late which I may clear up when I have time. His immediate principal, Barney, is a more astute person. They specialize in assaults, intimidation, and the like.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Barney Stockdale

It is that gang of Barney Stockdale.

“His immediate principal, Barney, is a more astute person. They specialize in assaults, intimidation, and the like.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Perkins

Who was killed outside the Holborn Bar. Read More...

Steve Dixie, the bruiser

The door had flown open and a huge negro had burst into the room. He would have been a comic figure if he had not been terrific, for he was dressed in a very loud gray check suit with a flowing salmon-coloured tie. His broad face and flattened nose were thrust forward, as his sullen dark eyes, with a smouldering gleam of malice in them, turned from one of us to the other. Read More...

Isadora Klein

Tall, queenly, a perfect figure, a lovely mask-like face, with two wonderful Spanish eyes which looked murder at us both. Read More...

Douglas Maberley

“Dear me! Are you the mother of Douglas Maberley? I knew him slightly. But of course all London knew him. What a magnificent creature he was! Where is he now?” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...

Mrs Mary Maberley

A most engaging elderly person, who bore every mark of refinement and culture.

Butler to Baron Gruner

A butler who would have adorned a bench of bishops, showed me in and handed me over to a plush-clad footman, who ushered me into the Baron’s presence.

Chloroform

With a united effort we tore off the coffin-lid. As we did so there came from the inside a stupefying and overpowering smell of chloroform. A body lay within, its head all wreathed in cotton-wool, which had been soaked in the narcotic.
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221b Baker Street, London

Home of Sherlock Holmes and at times Dr John Watson.
They (the rooms) consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
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Scotland Yard, London

Scotland Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London. Founded on 29th September 1829, on a street off Whitehall, near to the Houses of Parliament, London.
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Dr John Watson

Companion and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes

“Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault, they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent." (Sherlock Holmes) (Study in Scarlet)
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