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Jack or Trevor

Edith Presbury twice refers to her financée Trevor Bennett as 'Jack'.

Anthropoid

It is possible that the serum of anthropoid would have been better.
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Newfoundland

It (the collar) had been made for a thick-necked Newfoundland.
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Bohemian

He is in secret correspondence with a Bohemian dealer in London.
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Slavonic

“Dorak — a curious name. Slavonic, I imagine."

  • Branch of Indo-european languages spoken in most eastern european countries that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian (West Slavic), and Bulgarian, Serbo-Croat, Macedonian, and Slovene (South Slavic)
  • Of, relating to, or denoting the peoples of central and eastern Europe who speak any of these languages.

Wisteria

A charming house, girt round with lawns and covered with purple wisteria.
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Camford

Combination of Oxford and Cambridge sometimes referred to as Oxbridge.

Port

“If I remember right, an inn called the Chequers where the port used to be above mediocrity and the linen was above reproach.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Lumbago

“Lumbago, possibly. I have known a severe attack make a man walk in just such a way, and nothing would be more trying to the temper.” (Dr John Watson)
  • Pain in the muscles and joints of the lower back.

Canula

“One day, in looking for a canula, I took up the box.” (Trevor Bennett)
  • A thin tube inserted into a vein or body cavity to administer medicine, drain off fluid, or insert a surgical instrument.

Wolfhound

“Why does Professor Presbury’s wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Langur

‘Langur.’ “ he read. “ ‘the great black-faced monkey of the Himalayan slopes, biggest and most human of climbing monkeys.”
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Alienist

“Speaking as a medical man,” said I, “it appears to be a case for an alienist." (Dr John Watson)
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Small monograph proposed by Sherlock Holmes

A small monograph upon the uses of dogs in the work of the detective. Read More...

Sherlock Holmes - Deductions

“Mr. Holmes, this is the young lady I spoke of. This is my fiancee.”
“We were gradually coming to that conclusion, were we not, Watson?” Read More...

Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations

He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them. As an institution I was like the violin, the shag tobacco, the old black pipe, the index books, and others perhaps less excusable. When it was a case of active work and a comrade was needed upon whose nerve he could place some reliance, my role was obvious. But apart from this I had uses. I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him. He liked to think aloud in my presence. His remarks could hardly be said to be made to me — many of them would have been as appropriately addressed to his bedstead — but none the less, having formed the habit, it had become in some way helpful that I should register and interject. If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flame-like intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly. Such was my humble role in our alliance. Read More...

Sherlock Holmes - Sayings

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. And their passing moods may reflect the passing moods of others.” Read More...

Deception practised on Professor Presbury by Sherlock Holmes

“Possibly there is some mistake. I heard through a second person that Professor Presbury of Camford had need of my services.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Cross under the stamp

“There was a letter and there was a small packet, each with the cross under the stamp which warned me not to touch them.” (Trevor Bennett)

Nine day cycle of dates

“This excellent young man’s diary shows that there was trouble upon July 2nd, and from then onward it seems to have been at nine-day intervals, with, so far as I remember, only one exception.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Little wooden box

“The professor brought back a little wooden box from his travels. It was the one thing which suggested a Continental tour, for it was one of those quaint carved things which one associates with Germany.” (Trevor Bennett)

Letter from Lowenstein to Professor Presbury

HONOURED COLLEAGUE [it ran]:
Since your esteemed visit I have thought much of your case, and though in your circumstances there are some special reasons for the treatment, I would none the less enjoin caution, as my results have shown that it is not without danger of a kind.
It is possible that the serum of anthropoid would have been better. I have, as I explained to you, used black-faced langur because a specimen was accessible. Langur is, of course, a crawler and climber, while anthropoid walks erect and is in all ways nearer.
I beg you to take every possible precaution that there be no premature revelation of the process. I have one other client in England, and Dorak is my agent for both.
Weekly reports will oblige.
Yours with high esteem,
H. LOWENSTEIN.

Packet from Dorak to Professor Presbury

“He heard from his London correspondent to-day. There was a letter and there was a small packet, each with the cross under the stamp which warned me not to touch them.” (Trevor Bennett)

Note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson

On the following Monday evening I had a short note asking me to meet him next day at the train.

Telegram from Mercer to Sherlock Holmes

‘Have visited the Commercial Road and seen Dorak. Suave person, Bohemian, elderly. Keeps large general store.
MERCER.’

Telegram from Sherlock Holmes to Mercer

Holmes stopped at a post-office and sent off a telegram on our way.

Letter from Professor Presbury to Dorak

“I have the address of the man in London to whom the professor writes. He seems to have written this morning, and I got it from his blotting-paper.” (Trevor Bennett)

Letters from London E.C. to Professor Presbury

“He told me that certain letters might come to him from London which would be marked by a cross under the stamp. These were to be set aside for his own eyes only.” (Trevor Bennett)

Letter from fellow student to Trevor Bennett

Mr. Bennett, received a letter from a fellow-student in Prague, who said that he was glad to have seen Professor Presbury there, although he had not been able to talk to him.

Messages from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson

‘Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same. S. H.’

Cooper Beeches

“You may recollect that in the case which you, in your sensational way, coupled with the Copper Beeches, I was able, by watching the mind of the child, to form a deduction as to the criminal habits of the very smug and respectable father.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Commercial Road, London

Where Dorak had a shop.
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Home of Professor Presbury

A smart hansom swept us past a row of ancient colleges and, finally turning into a tree-lined drive, pulled up at the door of a charming house, girt round with lawns and covered with purple wistaria.

Chequers Inn

“If I remember right, an inn called the Chequers where the port used to be above mediocrity and the linen was above reproach. I think, Watson, that our lot for the next few days might lie in less pleasant places.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Prague

Mr. Bennett, received a letter from a fellow-student in Prague, who said that he was glad to have seen Professor Presbury there.
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Camford

Monday morning found us on our way to the famous university town.

Lowenstein

Lowenstein! The name brought back to me the memory of some snippet from a newspaper which spoke of an obscure scientist who was striving in some unknown way for the secret of rejuvenescence and the elixir of life. Lowenstein of Prague! Lowenstein with the wondrous strength-giving serum, tabooed by the profession because he refused to reveal its source.

Macphail

Professor Presbury's coachman.

Mercer

“Mercer is since your time,” said Holmes. “He is my general utility man who looks up routine business."

Dorak

“Dorak — a curious name. Slavonic, I imagine.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...

Fellow student

“Mr. Bennett, received a letter from a fellow-student in Prague, who said that he was glad to have seen Professor Presbury there, although he had not been able to talk to him.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Alice Morphy

A very perfect girl both in mind and body. Read More...

Edith Presbury

A bright, handsome girl of a conventional English type. Read More...

Roy the wolfhound

He was a dear, affectionate animal. Read More...

Trevor Bennett

A tall, handsome youth about thirty, well dressed and elegant, but with something in his bearing which suggested the shyness of the student rather than the self-possession of the man of the world. Read More...

Professor Presbury

“The professor, Watson, is a man of European reputation. His life has been academic. There has never been a breath of scandal. He is a widower with one daughter, Edith. He is, I gather, a man of very virile and positive, one might almost say combative, character.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...

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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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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