Arabian nights
31/07/09 15:18 Filed in: Additional Information
Footman
31/07/09 15:16 Filed in: Additional Information
Belle dame sans merci
31/07/09 15:14 Filed in: Additional Information
Chloroform
31/07/09 15:09 Filed in: Additional Information
“I was conscious for a moment of the chloroform rag which was thrust over my mouth.” (Mary Maberley)
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Bow window
31/07/09 15:07 Filed in: Additional Information
This strange, languid creature spent his waking hours in the bow window of a St. James’s Street club.
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Annuity
31/07/09 15:05 Filed in: Additional Information
“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
31/07/09 15:03 Filed in: Additional Information
“No, I don’t think I have anything rarer than a Crown Derby tea-set.” (Mary Maberley)
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Post Office Bank
31/07/09 14:39 Filed in: Additional Information
“Of course, when people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Paregoric
31/07/09 14:38 Filed in: Additional Information
“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
31/07/09 14:32 Filed in: Additional Information
"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
31/07/09 14:29 Filed in: 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
31/07/09 14:25 Filed in: Character Illustrations
Holmes knocked out the ashes of his pipe with a quiet chuckle. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
31/07/09 14:23 Filed in: Sayings
“You can’t play with edged tools forever without cutting those dainty hands.” Read More...
Susan Stockdale - Housemaid
31/07/09 14:18 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
“One of them got into the house as servant.” (Isadora Klein)
Burnt remains of the novel written by Douglas Maberley
31/07/09 14:15 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
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
31/07/09 14:11 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
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?’”
“I simply wrote: ‘Shall it be the police, then?’”
Final page of Douglas Maberley's novel
31/07/09 14:09 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“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.”
“. . . 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
31/07/09 14:07 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Please come out at once. Client’s house burgled in the night. Police in possession.
SUTRO.
SUTRO.
Messages passed between Susan and Barney Stockdale
31/07/09 14:00 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“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
31/07/09 13:54 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
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.
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
31/07/09 13:37 Filed in: Untold Cases
“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.”
“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
31/07/09 13:33 Filed in: Untold Cases
"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
30/07/09 17:48 Filed in: Locations
Scotland Yard, London
30/07/09 17:43 Filed in: Locations
Grosvenor Square, London
30/07/09 17:34 Filed in: Locations
Home of Isadora Klein.
It was one of the finest corner-houses of the West End.
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It was one of the finest corner-houses of the West End.
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Cairo, Maderia, the Riviera
30/07/09 17:29 Filed in: Locations
St. James's Street club
30/07/09 17:26 Filed in: Locations
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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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
30/07/09 17:21 Filed in: Locations
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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“ ‘Milano.’ ‘Lucerne.’ These are from Italy.”
“They are poor Douglas’s things.” (Mary Maberley)
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Harrow, London
30/07/09 17:19 Filed in: Locations
Rome, Italy
30/07/09 17:17 Filed in: Locations
“He was attaché at Rome, and he died there of pneumonia last month.” (Mary Maberley)
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Three Gables, Harrow Weald
30/07/09 17:15 Filed in: Locations
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
30/07/09 17:13 Filed in: Locations
“ 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
30/07/09 17:12 Filed in: Locations
“But it was the killing of young Perkins outside the Holborn — Bar." (Sherlock Holmes)
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Footman to Isadora Klein
30/07/09 16:58 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A machine-like footman took up our cards and returned with word that the lady was not at home.
Duke of Lomond
30/07/09 16:54 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I hear that she is about to marry the young Duke of Lomond, who might almost be her son.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Two burglars
30/07/09 16:53 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“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
30/07/09 16:52 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Maidservant to Mary Maberley.
Our friend of yesterday, looking very pale and ill, had entered the room, leaning upon a little maidservant.
Our friend of yesterday, looking very pale and ill, had entered the room, leaning upon a little maidservant.
Couple of Constables
30/07/09 16:51 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Who were examining the windows and the geranium beds outside ‘Three Gables’.
Police Inspector
30/07/09 16:49 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A bustling, rubicund inspector, who greeted Holmes as an old friend.
Langdale Pike
30/07/09 15:21 Filed in: Incidental Characters
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
30/07/09 15:20 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A retired sea captain who had owned Mary Maberley’s house before her.
Susan Stockdale
30/07/09 15:18 Filed in: Incidental Characters
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.
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
30/07/09 15:16 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Mrs Mary Maberley’s lawyer who lived in Harrow.
“Is that lawyer of yours a capable man?”
“Mr. Sutro is most capable.” (Mary Maberley)
“Is that lawyer of yours a capable man?”
“Mr. Sutro is most capable.” (Mary Maberley)
Haines-Johnson, Auctioneer and Valuer
30/07/09 15:15 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“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
30/07/09 15:13 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Husband of Mary Maberley. He had been one of Holmes' early clients. Read More...
Spencer John Gang
30/07/09 15:11 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“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
30/07/09 15:08 Filed in: Incidental Characters
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)
“His immediate principal, Barney, is a more astute person. They specialize in assaults, intimidation, and the like.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Perkins
30/07/09 15:05 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Who was killed outside the Holborn Bar. Read More...
Steve Dixie, the bruiser
30/07/09 15:03 Filed in: Incidental Characters
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
30/07/09 14:59 Filed in: Main Characters
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
30/07/09 14:57 Filed in: Main Characters
“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
30/07/09 14:56 Filed in: Main Characters
A most engaging elderly person, who bore every mark of refinement and culture.
The Crown Diamond
26/07/09 15:31 Filed in: Trivia
Whilst the adventure of The Mazarin Stone is generally considered to be one of the weakest entries in the Holmes canon, what is less recognised is that the story exists in another form, a short one-act drama called The Crown Diamond.
The play was first performed on the stage of the Bristol Hippodrome in 1921 with Dennis Neilson-Terry as Sherlock Holmes. What remains unclear is which version was written first. Most commentators point to the play as being the originator of the story because this explains the lack of a personal narrative by Watson. Is this conclusive evidence?....
The Crown Diamond: An Evening With Mr Sherlock Holmes (1921)
"The Crown Diamond" is an alternate version of the short story ‘‘The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone’’ though it predates its counterpart by some months. The short story was adapted from the play, this is the reason that the narrative is told in third person rather than by the traditional narrator Watson.
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The play was first performed on the stage of the Bristol Hippodrome in 1921 with Dennis Neilson-Terry as Sherlock Holmes. What remains unclear is which version was written first. Most commentators point to the play as being the originator of the story because this explains the lack of a personal narrative by Watson. Is this conclusive evidence?....
The Crown Diamond: An Evening With Mr Sherlock Holmes (1921)
"The Crown Diamond" is an alternate version of the short story ‘‘The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone’’ though it predates its counterpart by some months. The short story was adapted from the play, this is the reason that the narrative is told in third person rather than by the traditional narrator Watson.
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Receiver
26/07/09 15:26 Filed in: Additional Information
“Now, what would you regard as final evidence against the receiver?” (Sherlock Holmes)
“The actual possession of the stone.” (Lord Cantlemere)
“The actual possession of the stone.” (Lord Cantlemere)
- Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods some other way.
Gramophone
26/07/09 15:24 Filed in: Additional Information
Revolver
26/07/09 15:20 Filed in: Additional Information
“Would you care to put your revolver out also? Oh, very good, if you prefer to sit upon it.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Loaded cane/stick
26/07/09 15:16 Filed in: Additional Information
....his thick stick half raised, he approached the silent figure.
For an instant he (Count Sylvius) half raised his loaded cane once more.
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For an instant he (Count Sylvius) half raised his loaded cane once more.
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Shark and Gudgeon
26/07/09 15:14 Filed in: Additional Information
“Yes, and he’s a shark. He bites. The other is Sam Merton the boxer. Not a bad fellow, Sam, but the Count has used him. Sam’s not a shark. He is a great big silly bull-headed gudgeon. But he is flopping about in my net all the same.”
“I told him that I had a shark and a gudgeon in my net; now I am drawing the net and up they come together.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“I told him that I had a shark and a gudgeon in my net; now I am drawing the net and up they come together.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Madam Tussaud
26/07/09 15:10 Filed in: Additional Information
“Well, strike me! Madame Tussaud ain’t in it. It’s the living spit of him, gown and all.” (Sam Merton)
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Hoffman 'Barcarole'
26/07/09 15:01 Filed in: Additional Information
Gasogene and cigars
26/07/09 14:58 Filed in: Additional Information
Sitting room at Baker Street, London
26/07/09 14:52 Filed in: Additional Information
He (Watson) looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case leaning in the corner, the coal-scuttle, which contained of old the pipes and tobacco.
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Mazarin diamonds
26/07/09 14:48 Filed in: Additional Information
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
26/07/09 14:40 Filed in: Deductions
“Count me in, Holmes. I have nothing to do for a day or two.”
“Your morals don’t improve, Watson. You have added fibbing to your other vices. You bear every sign of the busy medical man, with calls on him every hour.” Read More...
“Your morals don’t improve, Watson. You have added fibbing to your other vices. You bear every sign of the busy medical man, with calls on him every hour.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
26/07/09 14:36 Filed in: Character Illustrations
“I think he’s in bed and asleep,” he said.
It was seven in the evening of a lovely summer’s day, but Dr. Watson was sufficiently familiar with the irregularity of his old friend’s hours to feel no surprise at the idea.
“That means a case, I suppose?” Read More...
It was seven in the evening of a lovely summer’s day, but Dr. Watson was sufficiently familiar with the irregularity of his old friend’s hours to feel no surprise at the idea.
“That means a case, I suppose?” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
26/07/09 14:33 Filed in: Sayings
“But why not eat?”
“Because the faculties become refined when you starve them. Why, surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.” Read More...
“Because the faculties become refined when you starve them. Why, surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.” Read More...
Deception practised on Lord Cantlemere
26/07/09 14:30 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
Deception practised upon Lord Cantlemere by Sherlock Holmes.
“One moment, sir,” said he. “To actually go off with the Mazarin stone would be a more serious offence than to be found in temporary possession of it.”
“Sir, this is intolerable! Let me pass.”
“Put your hand in the right-hand pocket of your overcoat.”
“What do you mean, sir?”
“Come — come, do what I ask.”
An instant later the amazed peer was standing, blinking and stammering, with the great yellow stone on his shaking palm.
“What! What! How is this, Mr. Holmes?”
I took the liberty — the very great liberty, I admit — of putting the stone into your pocket at the beginning of our interview.”
“One moment, sir,” said he. “To actually go off with the Mazarin stone would be a more serious offence than to be found in temporary possession of it.”
“Sir, this is intolerable! Let me pass.”
“Put your hand in the right-hand pocket of your overcoat.”
“What do you mean, sir?”
“Come — come, do what I ask.”
An instant later the amazed peer was standing, blinking and stammering, with the great yellow stone on his shaking palm.
“What! What! How is this, Mr. Holmes?”
I took the liberty — the very great liberty, I admit — of putting the stone into your pocket at the beginning of our interview.”
Sherlock Holmes - Old sporting man
26/07/09 14:28 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
“Yesterday there was an old sporting man.” (Count Sylvius)
Sherlock Holmes - Old woman
26/07/09 14:26 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
“You‘ve seen me as an old lady, Watson. I was never more convincing. He actually picked up my parasol for me once.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - Workman
26/07/09 14:24 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
“Yesterday he was out as a workman looking for a job.” (Billy)
Violin
26/07/09 14:19 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Holmes withdrew, picking up his violin from the corner as he passed. A few moments later the long-drawn, wailing notes of that most haunting of tunes came faintly through the closed door of the bedroom.
Notebook
26/07/09 14:16 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Then he threw open the table drawer and drew out a squat notebook.
“Do you know what I keep in this book?”
“No, sir, I do not!” (Count Sylvius)
“You!”
“Me!”
“Yes, sir, you! You are all here — every action of your vile and dangerous life.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“Do you know what I keep in this book?”
“No, sir, I do not!” (Count Sylvius)
“You!”
“Me!”
“Yes, sir, you! You are all here — every action of your vile and dangerous life.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Wax facsimile of Sherlock Holmes
26/07/09 14:13 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Dr. Watson could not restrain a cry of amazement. There was a facsimile of his old friend, dressing-gown and all, the face turned three-quarters towards the window and downward, as though reading an invisible book, while the body was sunk deep in an armchair.
Note from Sherlock Holmes to Scotland Yard
26/07/09 14:10 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Holmes took out his notebook and scribbled a few lines. “Take a cab to Scotland Yard and give this to Youghal of the C. I. D. Come back with the police.”
Forged cheque on the Credit Lyonnais
26/07/09 14:05 Filed in: Untold Cases
“Here is the forged cheque in the same year on the Credit Lyonnais.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Robbery in the train de-luxe
26/07/09 14:01 Filed in: Untold Cases
“Here is the robbery in the train de-luxe to the Riviera on February 13, 1892.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Miss Minnie Warrender
26/07/09 14:00 Filed in: Untold Cases
“And the complete life history of Miss Minnie Warrender.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Old Mrs Harold
26/07/09 13:59 Filed in: Untold Cases
“It’s all here, Count. The real facts as to the death of old Mrs. Harold, who left you the Blymer estate, which you so rapidly gambled away.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Old Baron Dowson
26/07/09 13:57 Filed in: Untold Cases
“Really, sir, you compliment me. Old Baron Dowson said the night before he was hanged that in my case what the law had gained the stage had lost. And now you give my little impersonations your kindly praise?” (Sherlock Holmes)
Lime Street, London
26/07/09 13:40 Filed in: Locations
“One or other of us must slip round with the stone to Lime Street and tell him.” (Count Negretto Sylvius)
The street got its name from the lime burners who sold lime for use in building.
The street got its name from the lime burners who sold lime for use in building.
Amsterdam, Holland
26/07/09 13:35 Filed in: Locations
“It can be out of England to-night and cut into four pieces in Amsterdam before Sunday.” (Count Negretto Sylvius)
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Whitehall, London
26/07/09 13:30 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I have the cabman who took you to Whitehall and the cabman who brought you away.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“If we could take it out of Whitehall someone else could surely take it out of my lodgings.” (Count Negretto Sylvius)
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“If we could take it out of Whitehall someone else could surely take it out of my lodgings.” (Count Negretto Sylvius)
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Minories
26/07/09 13:23 Filed in: Locations
“I followed him to old Straubenzee’s workshop in the Minories.” (Sherlock Holmes)
The Minories: a street between Aldgate and the Tower Of London; used to be occupied by gunsmiths, armourers, etc.; it takes its name from an old Abbey that used to be there, called the Minories.
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The Minories: a street between Aldgate and the Tower Of London; used to be occupied by gunsmiths, armourers, etc.; it takes its name from an old Abbey that used to be there, called the Minories.
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Van Seddar
26/07/09 13:12 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“He knows nothing of Van Seddar.”
“I thought Van Seddar was going next week.”
“He was. But now he must get off by the next boat. One or other of us must slip round with the stone to Lime Street and tell him.”
“I thought Van Seddar was going next week.”
“He was. But now he must get off by the next boat. One or other of us must slip round with the stone to Lime Street and tell him.”
Ikey Saunders
26/07/09 13:07 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I have Ikey Sanders, who refused to cut it up for you. Ikey has peached, and the game is up.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Commissionaire
26/07/09 12:48 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I have the commissionaire who saw you near the case.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Cabmen
26/07/09 12:46 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I have the cabman who took you to Whitehall and the cabman who brought you away.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Tavernier
26/07/09 12:42 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Tavernier, the French modeller, made it. He is as good at waxworks as your friend Straubenzee is at air-guns.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Yougal of the C.I.D.
26/07/09 12:37 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Take a cab to Scotland Yard and give this to Youghal of the C. I. D. Come back with the police.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Straubenzee
25/07/09 17:30 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I followed him to old Straubenzee’s workshop in the Minories. Straubenzee made the air-gun — a very pretty bit of work, as I understand.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Home Secretary
25/07/09 17:28 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Prime Minister
25/07/09 17:23 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Why, we had the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary both sitting on that very sofa. Mr. Holmes was very nice to them. He soon put them at their ease and promised he would do all he could.” (Billy)
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Billy the page
25/07/09 17:18 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective.
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Dr John Watson
25/07/09 17:16 Filed in: Incidental Characters
It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures.
Lord Cantlemere
25/07/09 17:13 Filed in: Main Characters
A thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.
Sam Merton the boxer
25/07/09 17:12 Filed in: Main Characters
The prize-fighter, a heavily built young man with a stupid, obstinate, slab-sided face, stood awkwardly at the door, looking about him with a puzzled expression.
Count Negretto Sylvius
25/07/09 17:11 Filed in: Main Characters
“Half-ltalian, you know, and with the Southern graces of manner when in the mood, but a devil incarnate in the other mood.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Lancet or the British Medical Journal
22/07/09 14:35 Filed in: Additional Information
Lord Roberts
22/07/09 14:33 Filed in: Additional Information
“The prospect of an interview with Lord Roberts would not have excited greater wonder and pleasure in a raw subaltern than was now reflected upon the face of Mr. Kent.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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The Spectator
22/07/09 14:29 Filed in: Additional Information
Veldt
22/07/09 14:27 Filed in: Additional Information
“After a year of sleeping upon the veldt, Mr. Holmes, one is not too particular about one’s quarters.” (James M. Dodd)
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Tuxbury Old Park
22/07/09 14:21 Filed in: Additional Information
Starting on a half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and ending in a Victorian portico.
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Middlesex Corps
22/07/09 14:11 Filed in: Additional Information
Imperial Yeomanry
22/07/09 14:08 Filed in: Additional Information
Boer War
22/07/09 14:03 Filed in: Additional Information
Pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis
22/07/09 14:00 Filed in: Additional Information
“A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scalelike affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly noninfective.” (Sir James Saunders)
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Leprosy
22/07/09 13:58 Filed in: Additional Information
“There remained the third possibility, into which, rare and unlikely as it was, everything seemed to fit. Leprosy is not uncommon in South Africa.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Trap
22/07/09 13:55 Filed in: Additional Information
Crimean V.C.
22/07/09 13:49 Filed in: Additional Information
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
21/07/09 17:15 Filed in: Deductions
“From South Africa, sir, I perceive.”
“Yes, sir,” he answered, with some surprise.
“Imperial Yeomanry, I fancy.”
“Exactly.”
“Middlesex Corps, no doubt.”
“That is so. Mr. Holmes, you are a wizard.”
I smiled at his bewildered expression.
“When a gentleman of virile appearance enters my room with such tan upon his face as an English sun could never give, and with his handkerchief in his sleeve instead of in his pocket, it is not difficult to place him. You wear a short beard, which shows that you were not a regular. You have the cut of a riding-man. As to Middlesex, your card has already shown me that you are a stockbroker from Throgmorton Street. What other regiment would you join?” Read More...
“Yes, sir,” he answered, with some surprise.
“Imperial Yeomanry, I fancy.”
“Exactly.”
“Middlesex Corps, no doubt.”
“That is so. Mr. Holmes, you are a wizard.”
I smiled at his bewildered expression.
“When a gentleman of virile appearance enters my room with such tan upon his face as an English sun could never give, and with his handkerchief in his sleeve instead of in his pocket, it is not difficult to place him. You wear a short beard, which shows that you were not a regular. You have the cut of a riding-man. As to Middlesex, your card has already shown me that you are a stockbroker from Throgmorton Street. What other regiment would you join?” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
21/07/09 17:12 Filed in: Character Illustrations
“Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
21/07/09 17:09 Filed in: Sayings
“A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.” Read More...
Brown leather gloves worn by Ralph the butler
21/07/09 17:07 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
He wore brown leather gloves, which at sight of us he instantly shuffled off, laying them down on the hall-table as we passed in.
it was undoubtedly from them that the curious tarry odour was oozing.
I noticed that Ralph, who carries out the meals, had gloves which are impregnated with disinfectants.
it was undoubtedly from them that the curious tarry odour was oozing.
I noticed that Ralph, who carries out the meals, had gloves which are impregnated with disinfectants.
Word written by Sherlock Holmes and handed to Col. Emsworth
21/07/09 17:05 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“He unfolded the scrap of paper on which I had written the word ‘Leprosy.’” (Sherlock Holmes)
Letter from James M. Dodd to Sherlock Holmes
21/07/09 17:04 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“Your letter came with that heading, and as you fixed this appointment in very pressing terms it was clear that something sudden and important had occurred.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Letters from Godfrey Emsworth to James M. Dodd
21/07/09 17:02 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“I got one letter from the hospital at Cape Town and one from Southampton.” (James M. Dodd)
Commission from the Sultan of Turkey
21/07/09 16:58 Filed in: Untold Cases
“I also had a commission from the Sultan of Turkey which called for immediate action, as political consequences of the gravest kind might arise from its neglect.” (Sherlock Holmes)
The Case of the Abbey School
21/07/09 16:55 Filed in: Untold Cases
“I was clearing up the case which my friend Watson has described as that of the Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster was so deeply involved.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Sir James Saunders
21/07/09 16:54 Filed in: Untold Cases
“I was able once to do him a professional service, and he is ready to advise as a friend rather than as a specialist. His name is Sir James Saunders.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Buffelsspruit, outside Pretoria
21/07/09 16:51 Filed in: Locations
“You remember that morning fight at Buffelsspruit, outside Pretoria, on the Eastern railway line? It was very broken country, you may remember.” (Godfrey Emsworth)
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Euston Railway Station
21/07/09 16:48 Filed in: Locations
As we drove to Euston we picked up a grave and tacitum gentleman of iron-gray aspect, with whom I had made the necessary arrangements.
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Cottage in the grounds of Tuxbury Old Park
21/07/09 16:46 Filed in: Locations
Where Godfrey Emsworth and Mr Kent lived. Read More...
Cape Town and Southampton
21/07/09 16:43 Filed in: Locations
“ I got one letter from the hospital at Cape Town and one from Southampton.” (James M. Dodd)
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Diamond Hill, outside Pretoria
21/07/09 16:36 Filed in: Locations
Throgmorton Street, London
21/07/09 16:20 Filed in: Locations
“As to Middlesex, your card has already shown me that you are a stockbroker from Throgmorton Street.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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South Africa
21/07/09 16:17 Filed in: Locations
Where during the Boer War, James M Dodd and Godfrey Emsworth had become close friends.
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Tuxbury Old Park, Nr. Bedford
21/07/09 15:41 Filed in: Locations
“The house was so large and so rambling that a regiment might be hid away in it and no one the wiser.” (James M, Dodd) Read More...
Medical Superintendent
21/07/09 15:38 Filed in: Incidental Characters
An elderly man who was clearly in authority been attracted to the room by the hubbub; He said a few stern words in Dutch.
Lepers
21/07/09 15:35 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“In front of me was standing a small, dwarf-like man with a huge, bulbous head, who was jabbering excitedly in Dutch, waving two horrible hands which looked to me like brown sponges. Behind him stood a group of people who seemed to be intensely amused by the situation, but a chill came over me as I looked at them. Not one of them was a normal human being. Every one was twisted or swollen or disfigured in some strange way. The laughter of these strange monstrosities was a dreadful thing to hear.” (Godfrey Emsworth) Read More...
Simpson and Anderson
21/07/09 15:33 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“There was Simpson — the fellow we called Baldy Simpson — and Anderson, and I. We were clearing brother Boer, but he lay low and got the three of us. The other two were killed.” (Godfrey Emsworth)
Sir James Saunders
21/07/09 15:30 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A grave and tacitum gentleman of iron-gray aspect. Read More...
Mr Kent
21/07/09 15:29 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A small, brisk, bearded man in a black coat and bowler hat. Read More...
Godfrey Emsworth's mother
21/07/09 15:28 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“The mother I liked also — a gentle little white mouse of a woman.” (James M. Dodd)
Ralph's wife
21/07/09 15:26 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“....and there was his wife, who might have been older. She had been Godfrey’s nurse, and I had heard him speak of her as second only to his mother in his affections, so I was drawn to her in spite of her queer appearance.” (James M. Dodd)
Old Ralph the butler
21/07/09 15:25 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Who seemed about the same age as the house. Read More...
Dr John Watson
21/07/09 15:21 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Godfrey Emsworth
21/07/09 15:18 Filed in: Main Characters
He was Colonel Emsworth’s only son. Read More...
Colonel Emsworth
21/07/09 15:15 Filed in: Main Characters
The greatest martinet in the Army in his day, and it was a day of rough language, too. Read More...
Mr James M. Dodd
21/07/09 15:14 Filed in: Main Characters
A big, fresh, sunburned, upstanding Briton. Read More...
Hansom
19/07/09 16:24 Filed in: Additional Information
I need not say that my eyes had hardly glanced over the paragraph before I had sprung into a hansom and was on my way to Baker Street.
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Morning Post
19/07/09 15:43 Filed in: Additional Information
Three days later appeared a paragraph in the Morning Post to say that the marriage between Baron Adelbert Gruner and Miss Violet de Merville would not take place. The same paper had the first police-court hearing of the proceedings against Miss Kitty Winter on the grave charge of vitriol-throwing.
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Cockaded coachman/Armorial bearings
19/07/09 15:40 Filed in: Additional Information
Murderers mouth
19/07/09 15:20 Filed in: Additional Information
If ever I saw a murderer’s mouth it was there — a cruel, hard gash in the face, compressed, inexorable, and terrible. He was ill-advised to train his moustache away from it, for it was Nature’s danger-signal, set as a warning to his victims.
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District messenger
19/07/09 15:16 Filed in: Additional Information
Barrister
19/07/09 15:13 Filed in: Additional Information
It is said that the barrister who crams up a case with such care that he can examine an expert witness upon the Monday has forgotten all his forced knowledge before the Saturday.
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Tobacco-slipper
19/07/09 14:54 Filed in: Additional Information
Brougham
19/07/09 14:43 Filed in: Additional Information
I found Sir Leslie Oakshott, the famous surgeon, in the hall and his brougham waiting at the curb. (Dr John Watson)
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Middle Ages
19/07/09 14:37 Filed in: Additional Information
“ I have seen such faces in the pictures of the old masters of the Middle Ages.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Parish
19/07/09 14:33 Filed in: Additional Information
“Well, you surely know enough about this devil to prevent any decent girl in her senses wanting to be in the same parish with him.” (Kitty Winter)
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Post-hypnotic suggestion
19/07/09 14:29 Filed in: Additional Information
“I thought of what the rascal had said about a post-hypnotic influence. One could really believe that she was living above the earth in some ecstatic dream. Yet there was nothing indefinite in her replies.” (Sherlock Holmes)
- The giving of ideas or instructions to a subject under hypnosis that are intended to affect behavior after the hypnotic trance ends.
Nark
19/07/09 14:26 Filed in: Additional Information
Had Johnson been a “nark” of the police he would soon have been exposed, but as he dealt with cases which never came directly into the courts, his activities were never realized by his companions.
- A nark is someone to informs on other people, usually to the police.
Single-stick
19/07/09 14:22 Filed in: Additional Information
Erysipelas
19/07/09 14:18 Filed in: Additional Information
On the seventh day the stitches were taken out, in spite of which there was a report of erysipelas in the evening papers.
- An acute, sometimes recurrent disease caused by a bacterial infection. It is characterized by large, raised red patches on the skin, esp. that of the face and legs, with fever and severe general illness.
Rattle
19/07/09 14:13 Filed in: Additional Information
Wainwright
19/07/09 14:06 Filed in: Additional Information
“My old friend Charlie Peace was a violin virtuoso. Wainwright was no mean artist.”
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Charlie Peace
19/07/09 14:02 Filed in: Additional Information
“My old friend Charlie Peace was a violin virtuoso. Wainwright was no mean artist.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Short frocks
19/07/09 13:53 Filed in: Additional Information
“My client however is an old friend, one who has known the General intimately for many years and taken a paternal interest in this young girl since she wore short frocks.” (Sir James Damery)
Spats
18/07/09 18:32 Filed in: Additional Information
Christie or Sotheby
18/07/09 18:18 Filed in: Additional Information
Ruritania - Cunard Line
18/07/09 18:15 Filed in: Additional Information
It was simply that among the passengers on the Cunard boat Ruritania, starting from Liverpool on Friday, was the Baron Adelbert Gruner, who had some important financial business to settle in the States.
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Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
18/07/09 18:07 Filed in: Deductions
“I knew, also, that he (Baron Gruner) had come to England and had a presentiment that sooner or later he would find me some work to do.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
18/07/09 18:03 Filed in: Character Illustrations
Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
18/07/09 17:23 Filed in: Sayings
“A complex mind,” said Holmes. “All great criminals have that.” Read More...
Dr Watson - Dr Hill Barton
18/07/09 16:41 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
Holmes handed me a card upon which was printed:
‘Dr. Hill Barton, 369 Half Moon Street.’
“That is your name for the evening, Watson.”
“You may as well be a medical man, since that is a part which you can play without duplicity. You are a collector this set has come your way, you have heard of the Baron’s interest in the subject, and you are not averse to selling at a price.” (Sherlock Holmes)
‘Dr. Hill Barton, 369 Half Moon Street.’
“That is your name for the evening, Watson.”
“You may as well be a medical man, since that is a part which you can play without duplicity. You are a collector this set has come your way, you have heard of the Baron’s interest in the subject, and you are not averse to selling at a price.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Book written by Baron Gruner on the subject of Chinese Pottery
18/07/09 16:36 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“Who told you I was a connoisseur?”
“I was aware that you had written a book upon the subject.”
“Have you read the book?”
“No.”
“Dear me, this becomes more and more difficult for me to understand! You are a connoisseur and collector with a very valuable piece in your collection, and yet you have never troubled to consult the one book which would have told you of the real meaning and value of what you held.”
“I was aware that you had written a book upon the subject.”
“Have you read the book?”
“No.”
“Dear me, this becomes more and more difficult for me to understand! You are a connoisseur and collector with a very valuable piece in your collection, and yet you have never troubled to consult the one book which would have told you of the real meaning and value of what you held.”
Book of Baron Gruner
18/07/09 16:34 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“It‘s a book he has — a brown leather book with a lock, and his arms in gold on the outside." (Kitty Winter) Read More...
Vitriol
18/07/09 16:31 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
I knelt by the injured man and turned that awful face to the light of the lamp. The vitriol was eating into it everywhere and dripping from the ears and the chin. One eye was already white and glazed. The other was red and inflamed. The features which I had admired a few minutes before were now like some beautiful painting over which the artist has passed a wet and foul sponge. They were blurred, discoloured, inhuman, terrible.
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Ming saucer
18/07/09 16:28 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
He opened the lid and took out a small object most carefully wrapped in some fine Eastern silk. This he unfolded, and disclosed a delicate little saucer of the most beautiful deep-blue colour. Read More...
Letter from Dr Watson aka Dr Hill Barton to Baron Gruner
18/07/09 16:26 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“You will merely say that you are coming, and why.”
It was an admirable document, short, courteous, and stimulating to the curiosity of the connoisseur. A district messenger was duly dispatched with it.
It was an admirable document, short, courteous, and stimulating to the curiosity of the connoisseur. A district messenger was duly dispatched with it.
Note from Sir James Damery to Sherlock Holmes
18/07/09 16:24 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
It was from the Carlton Club and dated the evening before. This is what I read:
‘Sir James Damery presents his compliments to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and will call upon him at 4:30 to-morrow. Sir James begs to say that the matter upon which he desires to consult Mr. Holmes is very delicate and also very important. He trusts, therefore, that Mr. Holmes will make every effort to grant this interview, and that he will confirm it over the telephone to the Carlton Club.’
‘Sir James Damery presents his compliments to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and will call upon him at 4:30 to-morrow. Sir James begs to say that the matter upon which he desires to consult Mr. Holmes is very delicate and also very important. He trusts, therefore, that Mr. Holmes will make every effort to grant this interview, and that he will confirm it over the telephone to the Carlton Club.’
Professor Moriarty and Colonel Sebastian Moran
18/07/09 16:17 Filed in: Canon Cross References
“If your man is more dangerous than the late Professor Moriarty, or than the living Colonel Sebastian Moran, then he is indeed worth meeting.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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- The Adventure of the Final Problem
- The Adventure of the Empty House
369 Half Moon Street, London
18/07/09 16:14 Filed in: Locations
Address of the fictional Dr Hill Barton.
Imperial Palace, Peking
18/07/09 16:13 Filed in: Locations
“A complete set of this would be worth a king‘s ransom — in fact, it is doubtful if there is a complete set outside the imperial palace of Peking.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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London Library, St. James's Square, London
18/07/09 16:08 Filed in: Locations
Glasshouse Street, London
18/07/09 16:04 Filed in: Locations
The miscreants who attacked him appear to have been respectably dressed men, who escaped from the bystanders by passing through the Cafe Royal and out into Glasshouse Street behind it.
Charing Cross Hospital, London
18/07/09 16:00 Filed in: Locations
Cafe Royal, Regent Street, London
18/07/09 15:56 Filed in: Locations
There are no exact details to hand, but the event seems to have occurred about twelve o’clock in Regent Street, outside the Cafe Royal.
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Between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station
18/07/09 15:49 Filed in: Locations
I think I could show you the very paving-stone upon which I stood when my eyes fell upon the placard, and a pang of horror passed through my very soul. It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers. The date was just two days after the last conversation. There, black upon yellow, was the terrible news-sheet. (Dr John Watson)
MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON SHERLOCK HOLMES
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MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON SHERLOCK HOLMES
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104 Berkeley Square, London
18/07/09 15:46 Filed in: Locations
London home of General de Merville and his daughter Violet.
“One of those awful gray London castles which would make a church seem frivolous.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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“One of those awful gray London castles which would make a church seem frivolous.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Simpson's Restaurant
18/07/09 15:36 Filed in: Locations
Parkhurst Prison
18/07/09 15:34 Filed in: Locations
Hurlingham
18/07/09 15:32 Filed in: Locations
For a short time he played polo at Hurlingham, but then this Prague affair got noised about and he had to leave.
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Vernon Lodge, Nr. Kingston
18/07/09 15:30 Filed in: Locations
Present address of Baron Gruner.
The beautiful house and grounds indicated that Baron Gruner was, as Sir James had said, a man of considerable wealth. A long winding drive, with banks of rare shrubs on either side, opened out into a great gravelled square adorned with statues. The place had been built by a South African gold king in the days of the great boom, and the long, low house with the turrets at the corners, though an architectural nightmare, was imposing in its size and solidity.
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The beautiful house and grounds indicated that Baron Gruner was, as Sir James had said, a man of considerable wealth. A long winding drive, with banks of rare shrubs on either side, opened out into a great gravelled square adorned with statues. The place had been built by a South African gold king in the days of the great boom, and the long, low house with the turrets at the corners, though an architectural nightmare, was imposing in its size and solidity.
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Khyber Pass
18/07/09 15:26 Filed in: Locations
Splugen Pass
18/07/09 15:21 Filed in: Locations
“It is my business to follow the details of Continental crime. Who could possibly have read what happened at Prague and have any doubts as to the man’s guilt! It was a purely technical legal point and the suspicious death of a witness that saved him! I am as sure that he killed his wife when the socalled ‘accident’ happened in the Splugen Pass as if I had seen him do it .” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Queen Anne Street, London
18/07/09 15:17 Filed in: Locations
Dr Watson had rooms in Queen Anne Street at the time.
Carlton Club, London
18/07/09 14:53 Filed in: Locations
Sir James Damery was a member of this Club and the note he sent to Sherlock Holmes was from this address.
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Turkish bath, Northumberland Avenue
18/07/09 14:45 Filed in: Locations
Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins.
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- Map (Bottom lefthand corner)
- Northumberland Avenue
Two armed men
18/07/09 14:43 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Two armed men with sticks who attacked Sherlock Holmes outside the Cafe Royal.
The Client
18/07/09 14:39 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“It is a loyal friend and a chivalrous gentleman,” said Holmes, holding up a restraining hand. “Let that now and forever be enough for us.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Le Brun, the French agent
18/07/09 14:39 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I heard that he was beaten by some Apaches in the Montmartre district and crippled for life.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Butler to Baron Gruner
18/07/09 14:38 Filed in: Incidental Characters
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.
Lomax
18/07/09 14:35 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Sublibrarian at the London Library in St. James’s Square.
Finally I drove to the London Library in St. James’s Square, put the matter to my friend Lomax, the sublibrarian, and departed to my rooms with a goodly volume under my arm. (Dr John Watson)
Finally I drove to the London Library in St. James’s Square, put the matter to my friend Lomax, the sublibrarian, and departed to my rooms with a goodly volume under my arm. (Dr John Watson)
Sir Leslie Oakshott
18/07/09 14:34 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The famous surgeon who attended Sherlock Holmes after the murderous attack on his person. Read More...
General de Merville
18/07/09 14:31 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Father of Violet de Merville. Read More...
Shinwell Johnson
18/07/09 14:29 Filed in: Main Characters
A huge, coarse, red-faced, scorbutic man, with a pair of vivid black eyes which were the only external sign of the very cunning mind within. Read More...
Kitty Winter
18/07/09 14:27 Filed in: Main Characters
A slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face, youthful, and yet so worn with sin and sorrow that one read the terrible years which had left their leprous mark upon her. Read More...
Violet de Merville
18/07/09 14:24 Filed in: Main Characters
Young, rich, beautiful, accomplished, a wonder-woman in every way. Read More...
Sir James Damery
18/07/09 14:00 Filed in: Main Characters
He has rather a reputation for arranging delicate matters which are to be kept out of the papers. Read More...
General additional information
16/07/09 15:27 Filed in: Additional Information
Poldhu Cove to Predannack Wollas
16/07/09 15:23 Filed in: Additional Information
Poldhu Cove to Predannack Wollas is about two miles along country lanes.
It was marked, however, at the outset by an incident which left the most sinister impression upon my mind. The approach to the spot at which the tragedy occurred is down a narrow, winding, country lane. While we made our way along it we heard the raffle of a carriage coming towards us and stood aside to let it pass. As it drove by us I caught a glimpse through the closed window of a horribly contorted, grinning face glaring out at us. Those staring eyes and gnashing teeth flashed past us like a dreadful vision.
It was marked, however, at the outset by an incident which left the most sinister impression upon my mind. The approach to the spot at which the tragedy occurred is down a narrow, winding, country lane. While we made our way along it we heard the raffle of a carriage coming towards us and stood aside to let it pass. As it drove by us I caught a glimpse through the closed window of a horribly contorted, grinning face glaring out at us. Those staring eyes and gnashing teeth flashed past us like a dreadful vision.
View-halloa
16/07/09 15:16 Filed in: Additional Information
Like an old hound who hears the view-halloa.
- The shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
Chaldean/Ancient Cornish language
16/07/09 15:06 Filed in: Additional Information
“A study of those Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech.”
The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phoenician traders in tin. He had received a consignment of books upon philology and was settling down to develop this thesis.
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The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phoenician traders in tin. He had received a consignment of books upon philology and was settling down to develop this thesis.
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Talc shield
16/07/09 14:18 Filed in: Additional Information
A small plate, often metal, above the wick in a oil lamp which acted as a smoke guard or shield. The metal plate shown in the picture below would serve the purpose.
Foxhound drawing a cover
15/07/09 16:43 Filed in: Additional Information
Covert (pronounced 'cover') - Generally used to describe a wood but also encompasses any copse, thicket, hedge or field where a fox may lie for shelter.
- Draw - The act of encouraging the hounds through a covert in search of a quarry.
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Dog cart
15/07/09 16:33 Filed in: Additional Information
I heard the rattle of hoofs and, looking up, saw a dog-cart coming at a gallop down the road.
“Can you fit us both into your dog-cart?” (Sherlock Holmes)
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“Can you fit us both into your dog-cart?” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Flint arrows
15/07/09 16:30 Filed in: Additional Information
“Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows.”
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
15/07/09 16:24 Filed in: Character Illustrations
In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity. To his sombre and cynical spirit all popular applause was always abhorrent, and nothing amused him more at the end of a successful case than to hand over the actual exposure to some orthodox official, and to listen with a mocking smile to the general chorus of misplaced congratulation. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
15/07/09 16:17 Filed in: Deductions
“Well, as you seem to have made the discovery, whatever it may be, and the vicar to have had it second-hand, perhaps you had better do the speaking,” said Holmes. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
15/07/09 16:14 Filed in: Sayings
“I fear,” said Holmes, “that if the matter is beyond humanity it is certainly beyond me. Yet we must exhaust all natural explanations before we fall back upon such a theory as this.” Read More...
Radix pedis Diaboli. Devil's-foot root
15/07/09 16:09 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“It is no reflection upon your professional knowledge,” said he, “for I believe that, save for one sample in a laboratory at Buda, there is no other specimen in Europe. It has not yet found its way either into the pharmacopaeia or into the literature of toxicology. The root is shaped like a foot, half human, half goatlike; hence the fanciful name given by a botanical missionary. It is used as an ordeal poison by the medicine-men in certain districts of West Africa and is kept as a secret among them.”
“It stimulates those brain centres which control the emotion of fear, and how either madness or death is the fate of the unhappy native who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe.” (Dr Leon Sterndale)
“It stimulates those brain centres which control the emotion of fear, and how either madness or death is the fate of the unhappy native who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe.” (Dr Leon Sterndale)
Telegram from Plymouth Hotel
15/07/09 16:06 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Telegram from Plymouth Hotel in reply to the one which Holmes had sent them.
“From the Plymouth hotel, Watson,” he said. “I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true. It appears that he did indeed spend last night there, and that he has actually allowed some of his baggage to go on to Africa, while he returned to be present at this investigation.”
“From the Plymouth hotel, Watson,” he said. “I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true. It appears that he did indeed spend last night there, and that he has actually allowed some of his baggage to go on to Africa, while he returned to be present at this investigation.”
Telegram from Mr Roundhay to Dr Leon Sterndale
15/07/09 16:03 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“It was Mr. Roundhay, the vicar, who sent me the telegram which recalled me.” (Dr Leon Sterndale)
Telegram from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson
15/07/09 15:58 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
‘Why not tell them of the Cornish horror — strangest case I have handled.‘
Dr Moore Agar of Harley Street
15/07/09 15:55 Filed in: Untold Cases
“Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount.” (Dr John Watson)
Africa
15/07/09 15:52 Filed in: Locations
“I had intended to bury myself in central Africa. My work there is but half finished.” (Dr Leon Sterndale)
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Plymouth Hotel
15/07/09 15:48 Filed in: Locations
Dr Leon Sterndale spent the night at this Hotel.
“I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Plymouth, Devon
15/07/09 15:44 Filed in: Locations
Beauchamp Arriance
15/07/09 15:35 Filed in: Locations
A small bungalow buried in the lonely wood of Beauchamp Arriance. Here, amid his books and his maps, he ( Dr Leon Sterndale) lived an absolutely lonely life, attending to his own simple wants and paying little apparent heed to the affairs of his neighbours.
Helston, Cornwall
15/07/09 15:32 Filed in: Locations
Redruth, Cornwall
15/07/09 15:26 Filed in: Locations
Tredannick Wollas, Cornwall
15/07/09 15:15 Filed in: Locations
The nearest hamlet to the cottage rented by Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
There is no Tredannick Wollas but there is a Predannick Wollas.
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There is no Tredannick Wollas but there is a Predannick Wollas.
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Poldhu Bay, Cornwall
15/07/09 15:06 Filed in: Locations
Thus it was that in the early spring of that year we found ourselves together in a small cottage near Poldhu Bay, at the further extremity of the Cornish peninsula.
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Wife of Dr Leon Sterndale
15/07/09 15:03 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“I have a wife who has left me for years and yet whom, by the deplorable laws of England, I could not divorce.” (Dr Leon Sterndale)
Servant to Mr Roundhay
15/07/09 15:01 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“That servant, I found upon inquiry, was so ill that she had gone to her bed.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Farm lad
15/07/09 14:59 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Farm lad sent by Mrs Porter to fetch the Doctor.
Mrs Porter
15/07/09 14:46 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The old cook and housekeeper. Elderly Cornish housekeeper to the Tregennis family.
Dr Richards
15/07/09 14:45 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Dr. Richards, who explained that he had just been sent for on a most urgent call to Tredannick Wartha.
Mr Roundhay, Vicar of Tredannick Wollas
15/07/09 14:43 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The vicar of the parish, Mr. Roundhay, was something of an archaeologist, and as such Holmes had made his acquaintance. He was a middle-aged man, portly and affable, with a considerable fund of local lore. At his invitation we had taken tea at the vicarage.
Dr Moore Agar of Harley Street
15/07/09 14:42 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.
Brenda Tregennis
15/07/09 14:38 Filed in: Main Characters
Sister of Mortimer, Owen and George Tregennis. Read More...
Mortimer Tregennis
15/07/09 14:20 Filed in: Main Characters
Brother of Brenda, Owen and George Tregennis.
A thin, dark, spectacled man, with a stoop which gave the impression of actual, physical deformity. Read More...
A thin, dark, spectacled man, with a stoop which gave the impression of actual, physical deformity. Read More...
Chloroform
05/07/09 14:37 Filed in: Additional Information
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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Sovereign
05/07/09 14:36 Filed in: Additional Information
“A sovereign if the lid comes off in a minute!” (Sherlock Holmes)
- A former British gold coin worth one pound sterling.
Big Ben
05/07/09 14:34 Filed in: Additional Information
But even so it was twenty-five to eight as we passed Big Ben, and eight struck as we tore down the Brixton Road.
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Hansom
05/07/09 14:33 Filed in: Additional Information
Workhouse
05/07/09 14:31 Filed in: Additional Information
“Rose Spender by name, whom we found in the Brixton Workhouse Infirmary.” (Dr Shlessinger)
First we drove to Brixton Workhouse Infirmary, where we found that it was indeed the truth that a charitable couple had called-some days before, that they had claimed an imbecile old woman as a former servant, and that they had obtained permission to take her away with them.
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First we drove to Brixton Workhouse Infirmary, where we found that it was indeed the truth that a charitable couple had called-some days before, that they had claimed an imbecile old woman as a former servant, and that they had obtained permission to take her away with them.
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Warrant
05/07/09 14:30 Filed in: Additional Information
“We can do nothing legal without a warrant, and you can serve the cause best by taking this note down to the authorities and getting one.”
- A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice.
Pawnbroker
05/07/09 14:25 Filed in: Additional Information
Salver
05/07/09 14:23 Filed in: Additional Information
Honourable Philip Green
05/07/09 14:19 Filed in: Additional Information
He was, I may mention the son of the famous admiral of that name who commanded the Sea of Azof fleet in the Crimean War.
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Cudgel
05/07/09 14:16 Filed in: Additional Information
French ouvrier in a blue blouse darted out from a cabaret opposite, with a cudgel in his hand, and struck my assailant a sharp crack over the forearm, which made him leave go his hold.
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Cook's local office
05/07/09 14:13 Filed in: Additional Information
Governess
05/07/09 14:11 Filed in: Additional Information
Mob cap
05/07/09 14:04 Filed in: Additional Information
Turkish bath
05/07/09 14:01 Filed in: Additional Information
“Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?”
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Sherlock Holmes quotation
05/07/09 13:57 Filed in: Additional Information
‘Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.’ Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
05/07/09 13:53 Filed in: Deductions
“But why Turkish?” asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a cane-backed chair at the moment, and my protruded feet had attracted his ever-active attention.
“English,” I answered in some surprise. “I got them at Latimer’s, in Oxford Street.”
Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patience.
“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?” Read More...
“English,” I answered in some surprise. “I got them at Latimer’s, in Oxford Street.”
Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patience.
“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
05/07/09 13:49 Filed in: Character Illustrations
Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patience.
“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?” Read More...
“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
05/07/09 13:46 Filed in: Sayings
“The situation strikes me as so desperate that the most extreme measures are justified.” Read More...
Dr Shlessinger and his wife - Holy Peters
05/07/09 13:44 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
“The Rev. Dr. Shlessinger, missionary from South America, is none other than Holy Peters, one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved. His particular specialty is the beguiling of lonely ladies by playing upon their religious feelings, and his so-called wife, an Englishwoman named (Annie) Fraser, is a worthy helpmate.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Sherlock Holmes - French Ouvrier (Worker)
05/07/09 13:25 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
An unshaven French ouvrier in a blue blouse darted out from a cabaret opposite, with a cudgel in his hand, and struck my assailant a sharp crack over the forearm, which made him leave go his hold.
In the disguise of a workingman he had sat in the cabaret waiting for my appearance.
In the disguise of a workingman he had sat in the cabaret waiting for my appearance.
£50 cheque
05/07/09 13:23 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Cheque for £50 given by Lady Frances to her maid Marie Devine as a wedding present.
Monograph supposedly being written by Dr Shlessinger
05/07/09 13:20 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Map of the Holy Land with special reference to the kingdom of the Midianites.
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Coffin built to unusual specifications
05/07/09 13:18 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
‘It took longer, being out of the ordinary.’ Read More...
Spanish Jewellery
05/07/09 13:15 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Spanish jewellery belonging to Lady Frances Carfax.
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Telegram from Sherlock Holmes to the manager of the Englischer Hof
04/07/09 17:34 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“I sent a duplicate to the manager of the Englischer Hof, whose answer lies here.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“Jagged or torn.”
“Jagged or torn.”
Telegram from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson
04/07/09 17:32 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
I had a telegram asking for a description of Dr. Shlessinger’s left ear.
Further Report from Dr Watson
04/07/09 17:31 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
To Holmes I wrote showing how rapidly and surely I had got down to the roots of the matter.
Report from Dr Watson to Sherlock Holmes
04/07/09 17:29 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
So to Baden I went, after dispatching to Holmes an account of all my proceedings and receiving in reply a telegram of half-humorous commendation.
Abrahams
04/07/09 17:28 Filed in: Untold Cases
“You know that I cannot possibly leave London while old Abrahams is in such mortal terror of his life.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Brixton Workhouse Infirmary
04/07/09 17:19 Filed in: Locations
“Well, if you really must know, she is an old nurse of my wife’s, Rose Spender by name, whom we found in the Brixton Workhouse Infirmary.” (Dr Shlessinger)
Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge
04/07/09 17:17 Filed in: Locations
“Let us try to reconstruct the situation,” said he as we drove swiftly past the Houses of Parliament and over Westminster Bridge.
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36 Poultney Square, Brixton
04/07/09 17:14 Filed in: Locations
Residence of Dr. Shlessinger and his wife.
He had rung loudly at the door of a great dark house in the centre of Poultney Square.
He had rung loudly at the door of a great dark house in the centre of Poultney Square.
Stimson & Co, Kennington Road
04/07/09 17:09 Filed in: Locations
Undertakers shop in the Kennington Road. Read More...
Bovington's, Westminster Road. (Pawnbrokers)
04/07/09 17:07 Filed in: Locations
A silver-and-brilliant pendant of old Spanish design had been pawned at Bovington’s, in Westminster Road.
Adelaide, Australia
04/07/09 17:05 Filed in: Locations
Rev. Shlessinger aka Holy Peters he was badly bitten in a saloon-fight at Adelaide in ‘89.
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Langham Hotel, London
04/07/09 16:58 Filed in: Locations
London address of the Hon. Philip Green. Read More...
Englischer Hof, Baden
04/07/09 16:55 Filed in: Locations
Lady Frances stayed at the Englischer Hof for a fortnight and met Dr Shlessinger and his wife there.
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11 Rue de Trajan, Montpellier
04/07/09 15:40 Filed in: Locations
Address of Marie Devine since she left the service of Lady Frances Carfax.
Credit Lyonnais Bank, Montpellier
04/07/09 15:36 Filed in: Locations
Marie Devine cashed her cheque for £50 at the Credit Lyonnaise Bank. The cheque had been given to her as a wedding present by Lady Frances Carfax.
Silvester's Bank
04/07/09 15:33 Filed in: Locations
“She banks at Silvester’s. I have glanced over her account.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Hotel National, Lusanne, Switzerland
04/07/09 15:28 Filed in: Locations
Lady Frances Carfax stayed there for several weeks with her maid. Read More...
Latimer's, Oxford Street, London
04/07/09 15:26 Filed in: Locations
Barberton
04/07/09 15:24 Filed in: Locations
“When the years had passed and I had made my money at Barberton I thought perhaps I could seek her out and soften her. I had heard that she was still unmarried.” (Hon. Philip Green)
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Late Earl of Rufton
04/07/09 15:20 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Lady Frances,” he continued, “is the sole survivor of the direct family of the late Earl of Rufton.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Police Sergeant and Police Constable
04/07/09 15:17 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A sergeant and a constable stood in the doorway.
Dr Horsom
04/07/09 15:14 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“....and had her (Rose Spender) carefully tended, as Christian folk should. On the third day she died — certificate says senile decay — but that’s only the doctor’s opinion, and of course you know better.” (Dr Shlessinger) Read More...
Rose Spender
04/07/09 15:12 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“She is an old nurse of my wife’s, Rose Spender by name, whom we found in the Brixton Workhouse Infirmary.” (Dr Shlessinger)
Jules Vibart
04/07/09 14:39 Filed in: Incidental Characters
One of the head waiters at the Hotel National, Lausanne and engaged to Marie Devine, maid of Lady Frances Carfax.
Monsieur Moser
04/07/09 14:36 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Manager of the Hotel National at Lausanne.
Miss Marie Devine
04/07/09 14:34 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The maid of Lady Frances Carfax, and engaged to one of the head waiters of the Hotel National at Lausanne. Read More...
Miss Susan Dobney
04/07/09 14:32 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Old Susan Dobney with the mob cap! I remember her well.” (Hon. Philip Green) Read More...
Dr Watson's unknown companion
04/07/09 14:30 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“You observe that you have some splashes on the left sleeve and shoulder of your coat. Had you sat in the centre of a hansom you would probably have had no splashes, and if you had they would certainly have been symmetrical. Therefore it is clear that you sat at the side. Therefore it is equally clear that you had a companion.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Hon. Philip Green
04/07/09 14:25 Filed in: Main Characters
He was an Englishman, though of an unusual type. Read More...
Wife of Dr Shlessinger
04/07/09 14:22 Filed in: Main Characters
Annie his so-called wife, an Englishwoman named Fraser, is a worthy helpmate.
A tall, pale woman, with ferret eyes.
A tall, pale woman, with ferret eyes.
Dr Shlessinger
04/07/09 14:12 Filed in: Main Characters
A Dr. Shlessinger and his wife, a missionary from South America. Read More...
Lady Frances Carfax
04/07/09 14:00 Filed in: Main Characters
“Lady Frances,” he continued, “is the sole survivor of the direct family of the late Earl of Rufton. The estates went, as you may remember, in the male line. She was left with limited means, but with some very remarkable old Spanish jewellery of silver and curiously cut diamonds to which she was fondly attached — too attached, for she refused to leave them with her banker and always carried them about with her. A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.” Read More...
Reversion
01/07/09 15:49 Filed in: Additional Information
“I dare say it was by some such device that poor Savage, who stood between this monster and a reversion, was done to death.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Half-crowns
01/07/09 15:43 Filed in: Additional Information
Beeswax
01/07/09 15:39 Filed in: Additional Information
“With vaseline upon one’s forehead, belladonna in one’s eyes, rouge over the cheek-bones, and crusts of beeswax round one’s lips, a very satisfying effect can be produced. Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.”
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Rouge
01/07/09 15:38 Filed in: Additional Information
“With vaseline upon one’s forehead, belladonna in one’s eyes, rouge over the cheek-bones, and crusts of beeswax round one’s lips, a very satisfying effect can be produced. Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.”
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Belladonna
01/07/09 15:36 Filed in: Additional Information
“With vaseline upon one’s forehead, belladonna in one’s eyes, rouge over the cheek-bones, and crusts of beeswax round one’s lips, a very satisfying effect can be produced. Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.”
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Vaseline
01/07/09 15:34 Filed in: Additional Information
“With vaseline upon one’s forehead, belladonna in one’s eyes, rouge over the cheek-bones, and crusts of beeswax round one’s lips, a very satisfying effect can be produced. Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.”
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Sugar tongs
01/07/09 15:25 Filed in: Additional Information
"Excellent, Watson! There is a sugar-tongs there. Kindly raise that small ivory box with its assistance. Place it here among the papers.”
Cautions
01/07/09 15:21 Filed in: Additional Information
Turn up the gas
01/07/09 15:19 Filed in: Additional Information
“What is that?” said Smith. “Turn up the gas? Ah, the shadows begin to fall, do they? Yes, I will turn it up, that I may see you the better.” He crossed the room and the light suddenly brightened.
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Coolies
01/07/09 15:16 Filed in: Additional Information
“Yes, the coolies used to do some squealing towards the end. Takes you as cramp, I fancy.” (Culverton Smith)
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Coals of fire
01/07/09 15:13 Filed in: Additional Information
“And yet, you see, I am here. Coals of fire, Holmes — coals of fire!” (Culverton Smith)
- To heap coals of fire on the head of a foe. To melt down his animosity by deeds of kindness.
- “If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink, for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.” Prov. xxv. 21, 22.
Tapanuli fever and black Formosa corruption
01/07/09 15:07 Filed in: Additional Information
“Shall I demonstrate your own ignorance? What do you know, pray, of Tapanuli fever? What do you know of the black Formosa corruption?”
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Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
01/07/09 14:53 Filed in: Character Illustrations
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. On the other hand, his payments were princely. I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms during the years that I was with him. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
01/07/09 14:51 Filed in: Sayings
“Strange how the brain controls the brain!”
Sherlock Holmes - The Dying Detective
01/07/09 14:47 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
He was indeed a deplorable spectacle. In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart. His eyes had the brightness of fever, there was a hectic flush upon either cheek, and dark crusts clung to his lips; the thin hands upon the coverlet twitched incessantly, his voice was croaking and spasmodic. Read More...
Pictures on walls of Holmes' bedroom
01/07/09 14:42 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
I walked slowly round the room, examining the pictures of celebrated criminals with which every wall was adorned.
Litter on mantlepiece in Holmes' bedroom
01/07/09 14:39 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Finally, in my aimless perambulation, I came to the mantelpiece. A litter of pipes, tobacco-pouches, syringes, penknives, revolver-cartridges, and other debris was scattered over it.
Small black and white ivory box
01/07/09 14:36 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
A small black and white ivory box with a sliding lid. It was a neat little thing.
“The spring! It drew blood. This box — this on the table.”
“No, Watson, I would not touch that box. You can just see if you look at it sideways where the sharp spring like a viper’s tooth emerges as you open it.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“The spring! It drew blood. This box — this on the table.”
“No, Watson, I would not touch that box. You can just see if you look at it sideways where the sharp spring like a viper’s tooth emerges as you open it.” (Sherlock Holmes)