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Scotland Yard

“I’d rather have you than Scotland Yard, Mr. Holmes.” (Sergeant Coventry)
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Fort Dodge or Fort Smith

Fort Dodge is actually on the De Moines River in Iowa.
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Fort Smith is on the Arkansas River in Arkansas.
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Bench

....but an unappreciative bench took a less favourable view, and the Killer returned to those shades from which he had just emerged.
  • (the bench) the office of judge or magistrate : his appointment to the civil bench.
  • a judge's seat in a court.
  • judges or magistrates collectively : rulings from the bench.
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C.I.D.

Evans had indeed done great service and caused several worthy C. I. D. men to sleep the sounder.
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Counterfeiter's outfit

Our eyes fell upon a mass of rusted machinery, great rolls of paper, a litter of bottles, and, neatly arranged upon a small table, a number of neat little bundles.
“A printing press — a counterfeiter’s outfit,” said Holmes.

Pocket-knife

He had ripped up my trousers with his pocket-knife.
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Jemmy

Drawing a jemmy from his inside pocket, he knelt down and worked vigorously upon the floor.
  • Jemmy - a short crowbar used by a burglar to force open a window or door.

Spring lock

The door shut with a spring lock.
  • A type of lock with a spring-loaded bolt that requires a key to open it, as distinct from a deadbolt.

Forger and Coiner

The dead man was identified as Rodger Prescott, famous as forger and coiner in Chicago.
  • Historically a person who coins money, in particular a maker of counterfeit coins.

Penitentiary

Killer Evans escaped from penitentiary through political influence.
  • A prison for people convicted of serious crimes.

Newgate calendar

“Ah, it is not part of your profession to carry about a portable Newgate Calendar in your memory.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Queen Anne or Georgian

“I was wondering if this was Queen Anne or Georgian.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Binders, reapers and plows

Binders, reapers, steam and hand plows, drills, harrows, farmer’s carts, buckboards, and all other appliances.
HOWARD GARRIDEB
CONSTRUCTOR OF ACRICULTURAL MACHINERY
Binders, reapers, steam and hand plows, drills, harrows, farmer’s carts, buckboards, and all other appliances.
Estimates for Artesian Wells
Apply Grosvenor Buildings, Aston

“Yes, it was bad English but good American. The printer had set it up as received. Then the buckboards. That is American also. And artesian wells are commoner with them than with us. It was a typical American advertisement, but purporting to be from an English firm.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Hans Sloane

“Why, I have the nucleus of a national collection. I shall be the Hans Sloane of my age.”(Nathan Garrideb)
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Sotheby's or Christie's

“Now and again I drive down to Sotheby’s or Christie‘s. Otherwise I very seldom leave my room.” (Nathan Garrideb)
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Alexandrian school

“At their best I hold them supreme, though some prefer the Alexandrian school.” (Nathan Garrideb)
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Syracusan

As he stood in front of us now, he held a piece of chamois leather in his right hand with which he was polishing a coin.
“Syracusan — of the best period,” he explained, holding it up. (Nathan Garrideb)
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Neanderthal, Heidelberg, Cro-Magnon

Above was a line of plaster skulls with such names as “Neanderthal,” “ Heidelberg,” “Cro-Magnon” printed beneath them.
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Early Georgian architecture

The particular house to which we were directed was a large, old-fashioned, Early Georgian edifice, with a flat brick face broken only by two deep bay windows on the ground floor.
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Tyburn tree

Within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory.
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Covert for putting up a bird

“They are my favourite covert for putting up a bird, and I would never have overlooked such a cock pheasant as that.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Wheat pit

“He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago.” (Killer Evans)
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Real estate

“He made his money in real estate.” (Killer Evans)
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Foolscap

He emerged that morning with a long foolscap document in his hand.
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South African War

Shortly after the conclusion of the South African War.
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Knighthood

The same month that Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described.
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Sherlock Holmes - Deductions

“You are, of course, the Mr. John Garrideb mentioned in this document. But surely you have been in England some time?”
“Why do you say that, Mr. Holmes?” I seemed to read sudden suspicion in those expressive eyes.
“Your whole outfit is English.”

“I was wondering, Watson, what on earth could be the object of this man in telling us such a rigmarole of lies. I nearly asked him so — for there are times when a brutal frontal attack is the best policy — but I judged it better to let him think he had fooled us. Here is a man with an English coat frayed at the elbow and trousers bagged at the knee with a year’s wear, and yet by this document and by his own account he is a provincial American lately landed in London. There have been no advertisements in the agony columns. You know that I miss nothing there. They are my favourite covert for putting up a bird, and I would never have overlooked such a cock pheasant as that. I never knew a Dr. Lysander Starr, of Topeka. Touch him where you would he was false. I think the fellow is really an American, but he has worn his accent smooth with years of London.”

Holmes pointed as we passed to the small brass plate which bore the curious name.
“Up some years, Watson,” he remarked, indicating its discoloured surface. “It’s his real name, anyhow, and that is something to note.”

“Yes, it was bad English but good American. The printer had set it up as received. Then the buckboards. That is American also. And artesian wells are commoner with them than with us. It was a typical American advertisement, but purporting to be from an English firm.”

“Anyhow, he wanted to get this good old fossil up to Birmingham. That is very clear. I might have told him that he was clearly going on a wild-goose chase, but, on second thoughts, it seemed better to clear the stage by letting him go.”

“I think we may take it that Prescott, the American criminal, used to live in the very room which our innocent friend now devotes to his museum.”

“He wanted to get our amiable friend out of his room — that is very clear, and, as the collector never went out, it took some planning to do it. The whole of this Garrideb invention was apparently for no other end. I must say, Watson, that there is a certain devilish ingenuity about it, even if the queer name of the tenant did give him an opening which he could hardly have expected. He wove his plot with remarkable cunning.’’

“It has nothing whatever to do with our client, so far as I can read the situation. It is something connected with the man he murdered — the man who may have been his confederate in crime. There is some guilty secret in the room. That is how I read it.”

Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations

Holmes had spent several days in bed, as was his habit from time to time, but he emerged that morning with a long foolscap document in his hand and a twinkle of amusement in his austere gray eyes.

“Patience! Patience, Mr. Garrideb!” said my friend in a soothing voice. “Dr. Watson would tell you that these little digressions of mine sometimes prove in the end to have some bearing on the matter."

Holmes had lit his pipe, and he sat for some time with a curious smile upon his face.

“I merely called to make your acquaintance, and there is no reason why I should interrupt your studies,” said Holmes. “I prefer to establish personal touch with those with whom I do business."

I noticed that my friend’s face cleared when the American left the room, and the look of thoughtful perplexity had vanished.

“I wish I could look over your collection, Mr. Garrideb,” said he. “In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it.”

“This is a more serious matter than I had expected, Watson,” said he. “It is fair to tell you so, though I know it will only be an additional reason to you for running your head into danger. I should know my Watson by now. But there is danger, and you should know it.”

Then my friend’s wiry arms were round me, and he was leading me to a chair.
“You’re not hurt, Watson? For God‘s sake, say that you are not hurt!”
It was worth a wound — it was worth many wounds — to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. “By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive."

"Help yourselves, gentlemen. Call it a deal and let me beat it.”
Holmes laughed.
“We don’t do things like that, Mr. Evans. There is no bolthole for you in this country."

Rodger Prescott aka Waldron

“The previous tenant was a gentleman at large named Waldron. Waldron’s appearance was well remembered at the office. He had suddenly vanished and nothing more been heard of him. He was a tall, bearded man with very dark features. Now, Prescott, the man whom Killer Evans had shot, was, according to Scotland Yard, a tall, dark man with a beard. As a working hypothesis, I think we may take it that Prescott, the American criminal, used to live in the very room which our innocent friend now devotes to his museum.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Deception practised by Killer Evans on Nathan Garrideb

“He wanted to get our amiable friend out of his room — that is very clear, and, as the collector never went out, it took some planning to do it. The whole of this Garrideb invention was apparently for no other end. I must say, Watson, that there is a certain devilish ingenuity about it, even if the queer name of the tenant did give him an opening which he could hardly have expected. He wove his plot with remarkable cunning.’’ (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...

Deception practised by Sherlock Holmes on Killer Evans

“I used to have a correspondent — he is dead now — old Dr. Lysander Starr, who was mayor in 1890.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Killer Evans aka John Garrideb

aka John Garrideb. James Winter, alias Morecroft, alias Killer Evans.

Telephone call from Dr Watson to Scotland Yard

"Please give the Yard a call, Watson. It won’t be entirely unexpected.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Advertisement placed by Killer Evans

HOWARD GARRIDEB
CONSTRUCTOR OF ACRICULTURAL MACHINERY
Binders, reapers, steam and hand plows, drills, harrows, farmer’s carts, buckboards, and all other appliances.
Estimates for Artesian Wells
Apply Grosvenor Buildings, Aston.

Telephone call from Sherlock Holmes to Nathan Garrideb

My friend took the instrument and I heard the usual syncopated dialogue.

Letter from Nathan Garrideb to Sherlock Holmes

Holmes had spent several days in bed, as was his habit from time to time, but he emerged that morning with a long foolscap document in his hand and a twinkle of amusement in his austere gray eyes.

Untold Services

I remember the date very well, for it was in the same month that Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described.

Brixton, London

Nathan Garrideb was last heard of at a nursing-home in Brixton.
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Waterloo Road, London

Killer Evans shot a man over cards in a night-club in the Waterloo Road in January, 1895.
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Chicago, U.S.A.

John Garrideb aka ‘James Winter, alias Morecroft, alias Killer Evans,’ - Native of Chicago.
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Scotland Yard, London

“I have been down to see friend Lestrade at the Yard.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Edgeware Road, London

Address of the Nathan Garrideb's house agent, Holloway and Steele.
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Grosvenor Buildings, Aston, Birmingham

Fictional address of Howard Garrideb.
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Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.

“I was in the law at Topeka, and one day I had a visit from the old man, and he was tickled to death to meet another man with his own name.” (Killer Evans)
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Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge

“Alexander Hamilton Garrideb made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.” (Killer Evans)
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Moorville, Kansas, U.S.A.

Address on the card sent up to Sherlock Holmes by John Garrideb.
‘John Garrideb, Counsellor at Law, Moorville, Kansas, U. S. A.’
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136 Little Ryder Street, London

Address of Nathan Garrideb. Read More...

Rodger Prescott

Famous as forger and coiner in Chicago. Killed by Killer Evans in 1895.
aka Waldron

Inspector Lestrade

“I have been down to see friend Lestrade at the Yard. There may be an occasional want of imaginative intuition down there, but they lead the world for thoroughness and method.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Holloway and Steele

House agents for 136 Little Ryder Street, London.

Howard Garrideb

Fictious Birmingham character invented by Killer Evans.

Mrs Saunders

Mrs. Saunders, the caretaker, was about to leave, but she had no hesitation in admitting us, for the door shut with a spring lock, and Holmes promised to see that all was safe before we left. Shortly afterwards the outer door closed, her bonnet passed the bow window.

Dr Lysander Starr

“I used to have a correspondent — he is dead now — old Dr. Lysander Starr, who was mayor in 1890.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Alexander Hamilton Garrideb

“If you came from Kansas I would not need to explain to you who Alexander Hamilton Garrideb was. He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.” (Killer Evans) Read More...

Killer Evans

“I have identified Mr. John Garrideb, Counsellor at Law. He is none other than ‘Killer’ Evans, of sinister and murderous reputation.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...

Nathan Garrideb

Mr. Nathan Garrideb proved to be a very tall, loosejointed, round-backed person, gaunt and bald, some sixty-odd years of age. He had a cadaverous face, with the dull dead skin of a man to whom exercise was unknown. Large round spectacles and a small projecting goat’s beard combined with his stooping attitude to give him an expression of peering curiosity. The general effect, however, was amiable, though eccentric.

Scotland Yard, London

“Stop! Where are you going?”
“To Scotland Yard.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Note from Sherlock Holmes to Scotland Yard

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.”

Yougal of the C.I.D.

“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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Boer War

“I find from my notebook that it was in January, 1903, just after the conclusion of the Boer War, that I had my visit from Mr. James M. Dodd.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Christie or Sotheby

“I could perhaps suggest that the set should be valued by an expert.”
“Excellent, Watson! You scintillate to-day. Suggest Christie or Sotheby.”
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Jemmy, dark lantern, chisel, revolver

Jemmy - a short crowbar used by a burglar to force open a window or door.
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Chisel-a long-bladed hand tool with a beveled cutting edge and a plain handle
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Dark lantern
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Revolver
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Foolscap

“If time hangs heavy get foolscap and a pen, and begin your narrative of how we saved the State.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Inspector Lestrade

Thin and austere.

Inspector Lestrade

It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters.

Inspector Lestrade

“The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.”

Mrs Hudson

Mrs. Hudson has made some change in that figure eight times, or once in every quarter of an hour. She works it from the front, so that her shadow may never be seen.

Mrs Hudson

“Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion,” said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken. “Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.” (Sherlock Holmes)

Inspector Lestrade

Lestrade, as wiry, as dapper, and as ferret-like as ever, was waiting for us at the station. Read More...

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.

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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Inspector Lestrade

A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking.... Read More...

Scotland Yard, London

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

Edgware Road is a major street which passes through the west of central London, in the City of Westminster.
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Dr John Watson

Companion and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes.

Mrs Hudson

Long sufferring Landlady of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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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