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Inspector Lestrade
21/05/11 16:20 Filed in: Main Characters
There was one little sallow, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow.
"A well-known detective. He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here.” (Sherlock Holmes)
(Lestrade) lean and ferret-like as ever, was standing by the doorway, and greeted my companion and myself.
"A well-known detective. He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here.” (Sherlock Holmes)
(Lestrade) lean and ferret-like as ever, was standing by the doorway, and greeted my companion and myself.
Jemmy
06/08/09 17:21 Filed in: Additional Information
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.
Foolscap
06/08/09 16:43 Filed in: Additional Information
Inspector Lestrade
06/08/09 14:10 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“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)
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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Jemmy, dark lantern, chisel, revolver
29/06/09 17:44 Filed in: Additional Information
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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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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Dress circle
29/06/09 14:54 Filed in: Additional Information
“There were also two dress-circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre, dated for that very evening.” (Dr Watson)
A curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra.
A curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra.
Curacao
29/06/09 14:52 Filed in: Additional Information
“Then join me in a coffee and curacao. Try one of the proprietor’s cigars.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Foolscap
29/06/09 14:41 Filed in: Additional Information
“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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Bimetallic question
29/06/09 14:38 Filed in: Additional Information
“We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Polyphonic Motets of Lassus
29/06/09 14:35 Filed in: Additional Information
As to Holmes, he returned refreshed to his monograph upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus, which has since been printed for private circulation, and is said by experts to be the last word upon the subject.
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All the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men
29/06/09 14:32 Filed in: Additional Information
“I’m afraid,” said Holmes, smiling, “that all the queen’s horses and all the queen’s men cannot avail in this matter.”
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Points on the railway line
29/06/09 14:29 Filed in: Additional Information
“Points,” he muttered, “the points.”
“What of it? What do you mean?”
“I suppose there are no great number of points on a system such as this?”
“No; there are very few.”
“And a curve, too. Points, and a curve."
"Is it a coincidence that it is found at the very point where the train pitches and sways as it comes round on the points? Is not that the place where an object upon the roof might be expected to fall off? The points would affect no object inside the train." (Sherlock Holmes)
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“What of it? What do you mean?”
“I suppose there are no great number of points on a system such as this?”
“No; there are very few.”
“And a curve, too. Points, and a curve."
"Is it a coincidence that it is found at the very point where the train pitches and sways as it comes round on the points? Is not that the place where an object upon the roof might be expected to fall off? The points would affect no object inside the train." (Sherlock Holmes)
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Plate-layer
29/06/09 14:26 Filed in: Additional Information
A workman who lays down the rails of a railway and fixes them to the sleepers or ties.
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Area
29/06/09 14:20 Filed in: Additional Information
“We would do better in the area. There is an excellent archway down yonder in case a too zealous policeman should intrude.”
- A sunken enclosure giving access to the basement of a building often used as a servants’ entrance in Victorian houses.
- These pictures of Bath, U.K. show the rails of the 'area' which in this instance was at the front of the house.
- This photograph of the Jane Austen centre clearly shows the railings round the 'area', the basement windows and the superior front door which the family and their guests would have used.
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
29/06/09 14:09 Filed in: Deductions
“Judging by its effect upon my brother, I should think it must be a most extraordinary one.” He snuggled down in his armchair. “Now, Watson, let us have the facts.”
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Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
29/06/09 14:04 Filed in: Character Illustrations
In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby — the music of the Middle Ages. But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the windowpanes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer. He paced restlessly about our sitting-room in a fever of suppressed energy, biting his nails, tapping the furniture, and chafing against inaction.
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Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
29/06/09 14:00 Filed in: Sayings
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Letter dictated by Sherlock Holmes
29/06/09 13:58 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
Letter dictated by Sherlock Holmes, written by Colonel Valentine Walter and sent to Hugo Oberstein
“DEAR SIR:
“With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing. I have a tracing which will make it complete. This has involved me in extra trouble, however, and I must ask you for a further advance of five hundred pounds. I will not trust it to the post, nor will I take anything but gold or notes. I would come to you abroad, but it would excite remark if I left the country at present. Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday. Remember that only English notes, or gold, will be taken.
“DEAR SIR:
“With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing. I have a tracing which will make it complete. This has involved me in extra trouble, however, and I must ask you for a further advance of five hundred pounds. I will not trust it to the post, nor will I take anything but gold or notes. I would come to you abroad, but it would excite remark if I left the country at present. Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday. Remember that only English notes, or gold, will be taken.
Advertisement in Agony column of Daily Telegraph
29/06/09 13:55 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
Advertisement placed in the agony column of the Daily Telegraph by Sherlock Holmes.
To-night. Same hour. Same place. Two taps. Most vitally important. Your own safety at stake.
PIERROT.
To-night. Same hour. Same place. Two taps. Most vitally important. Your own safety at stake.
PIERROT.
Emerald tie pin
26/06/09 17:09 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Some weeks afterwards I learned incidentally that my friend spent a day at Windsor, whence he returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie-pin.
Short life preserver
26/06/09 17:05 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
"Oberstein had a short life-preserver. He always carried it with him. As West forced his way after us into the house Oberstein struck him on the head. The blow was a fatal one." (Colonel Valentine Walter)
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Envelope containing slips of paper also found in Oberstein's study
26/06/09 17:02 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
There only remained an envelope with some small newspaper slips inside it. He shook them out on the table, and at once I saw by his eager face that his hopes had been raised.
“What’s this, Watson? Eh? What’s this? Record of a series of messages in the advertisements of a paper. Daily Telegraph agony column by the print and paper. Right-hand top corner of a page. No dates — but messages arrange themselves."
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“What’s this, Watson? Eh? What’s this? Record of a series of messages in the advertisements of a paper. Daily Telegraph agony column by the print and paper. Right-hand top corner of a page. No dates — but messages arrange themselves."
(See Letters, Telegrams and Notices etc.)
Cash-box found in study of Hugo Oberstein
26/06/09 16:59 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
It was a small tin cash-box which stood upon the writing-desk. Holmes pried it open with his chisel. Several rolls of paper were within, covered with figures and calculations, without any note to show to what they referred. The recurring words “water pressure” and “pressure to the square inch” suggested some possible relation to a submarine. Holmes tossed them all impatiently aside.
Items Sherlock Holmes instructed Dr Watson to bring with him to Goldini's restaurant
26/06/09 16:57 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
A jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.
Snapped twigs outside the office at the Woolwich Arsenal
26/06/09 16:54 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
There was a laurel bush outside the window, and several of the branches bore signs of having been twisted or snapped. He examined them carefully with his lens, and then some dim and vague marks upon the earth beneath.
Keys needed to obtain access to the Plans
26/06/09 16:52 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Three keys needed to obtain the Bruce Partington Plans.
The key of the outer door, the key of the office, and the key of the safe.
Sir James Walter kept all three on the same ring.
The key of the outer door, the key of the office, and the key of the safe.
Sir James Walter kept all three on the same ring.
Bruce Partington Plans
26/06/09 16:51 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“Its importance can hardly be exaggerated. It has been the most jealously guarded of all government secrets. You may take it from me that naval warfare becomes impossible within the radius of a Bruce-Partington’s operation. Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention. Every effort has been made to keep the secret. The plans, which are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the working of the whole, are kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglarproof doors and windows. Under no conceivable circumstances were the plans to be taken from the office. If the chief constructor of the Navy desired to consult them, even he was forced to go to the Woolwich office for the purpose." (Mycroft Holmes)
Additional items not mentioned in the press.
26/06/09 16:48 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Additional items found in Cadogan West's pocket which were not mentioned in the press.
"The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.” (Mycroft Holmes)
"The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.” (Mycroft Holmes)
Items found in the pocket of Cadogan West
26/06/09 16:35 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
"There is a list here of his possessions. His purse contained two pounds fifteen. He had also a cheque-book on the Woolwich branch of the Capital and Counties Bank. Through this his identity was established. There were also two dress-circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre, dated for that very evening. Also a small packet of technical papers.” (Dr John Watson)
No ticket in the pocket of Cadogan West
26/06/09 16:33 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“No ticket! Dear me, Watson, this is really very singular. According to my experience it is not possible to reach the platform of a Metropolitan train without exhibiting one’s ticket." (Sherlock Holmes)
Letter dictated by Sherlock Holmes
26/06/09 16:27 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Letter dictated by Sherlock Holmes, written by Colonel Valentine Walter and sent to Hugo Oberstein.
“DEAR SIR:
“With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing. I have a tracing which will make it complete. This has involved me in extra trouble, however, and I must ask you for a further advance of five hundred pounds. I will not trust it to the post, nor will I take anything but gold or notes. I would come to you abroad, but it would excite remark if I left the country at present. Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday. Remember that only English notes, or gold, will be taken.”
“DEAR SIR:
“With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing. I have a tracing which will make it complete. This has involved me in extra trouble, however, and I must ask you for a further advance of five hundred pounds. I will not trust it to the post, nor will I take anything but gold or notes. I would come to you abroad, but it would excite remark if I left the country at present. Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday. Remember that only English notes, or gold, will be taken.”
Advertisement placed in the agony column of the Daily Telegraph by Sherlock Holmes
26/06/09 16:25 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“To-night. Same hour. Same place. Two taps. Most vitally important. Your own safety at stake.
PIERROT.
PIERROT.
Advertisements placed in the agony column of the Daily Telegraph by Hugo Oberstein (Pierott)
26/06/09 16:22 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“Hoped to hear sooner. Terms agreed to. Write fully to address given on card.
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Note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson
26/06/09 16:20 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.
S. H.
S. H.
Note to Sherlock Holmes sent by Mycroft Holmes
26/06/09 16:18 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Surely enough, a note awaited us at Baker Street. A government messenger had brought it post-haste. Holmes glanced at it and threw it over to me.
There are numerous small fry, but few who would handle so big an affair. The only men worth considering are Adolph Meyer, of 13 Great George Street, Westminster; Louis La Rothiere, of Campden Mansions, Notting Hill; and Hugo Oberstein, 13 Caulfield Gardens, Kensington. The latter was known to be in town on Monday and is now reported as having left. Glad to hear you have seen some light. The Cabinet awaits your final report with the utmost anxiety. Urgent representations have arrived from the very highest quarter. The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.
MYCROFT.
There are numerous small fry, but few who would handle so big an affair. The only men worth considering are Adolph Meyer, of 13 Great George Street, Westminster; Louis La Rothiere, of Campden Mansions, Notting Hill; and Hugo Oberstein, 13 Caulfield Gardens, Kensington. The latter was known to be in town on Monday and is now reported as having left. Glad to hear you have seen some light. The Cabinet awaits your final report with the utmost anxiety. Urgent representations have arrived from the very highest quarter. The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.
MYCROFT.
Telegram from Sherlock Holmes to his brother Mycroft
26/06/09 16:17 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
At London Bridge, Holmes wrote a telegram to his brother, which he handed to me before dispatching it. It ran thus:
See some light in the darkness, but it may possibly flicker out. Meanwhile, please send by messenger, to await return at Baker Street, a complete list of all foreign spies or international agents known to be in England, with full address.
SHERLOCK.
See some light in the darkness, but it may possibly flicker out. Meanwhile, please send by messenger, to await return at Baker Street, a complete list of all foreign spies or international agents known to be in England, with full address.
SHERLOCK.
Telegram from Mycroft Holmes to Sherlock Holmes
26/06/09 16:15 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Must see you over Cadogan West. Coming at once.
MYCROFT.
MYCROFT.
Brooks or Woodhouse
26/06/09 16:14 Filed in: Untold Cases
“Suppose that I were Brooks or Woodhouse, or any of the fifty men who have good reason for taking my life, how long could I survive against my own pursuit?"
- Not strictly Untold Cases but obviously cases in which Holmes had been involved.
Greek Interpreter
26/06/09 16:12 Filed in: Canon Cross References
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter. A previous story in the Canon.
Windsor
26/06/09 16:07 Filed in: Locations
Some weeks afterwards I learned incidentally that my friend spent a day at Windsor, whence he returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie-pin. When I asked him if he had bought it, he answered that it was a present from a certain gracious lady in whose interests he had once been fortunate enough to carry out a small commission.
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Charing Cross Hotel
26/06/09 16:04 Filed in: Locations
Where Colonel Walter, under the direction Sherlock Holmes, arranged to meet Hugo Oberstein.
‘I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday.’
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‘I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday.’
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Hotel du Louvre, Paris
26/06/09 15:56 Filed in: Locations
Stock Exchange
26/06/09 15:52 Filed in: Locations
“A Stock Exchange debt had to be paid. I needed the money badly.” (Colonel Valentine Walter)
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Offices of the Daily Telegraph
26/06/09 15:49 Filed in: Locations
“I think we might drive round to the offices of the Daily Telegraph, and so bring a good day’s work to a conclusion.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Gloucester Road Station
26/06/09 15:42 Filed in: Locations
I began my operations at Gloucester Road Station, where a very helpful official walked with me along the track and allowed me to satisfy myself not only that the back-stair windows of Caulfield Gardens open on the line but the even more essential fact that, owing to the intersection of one of the larger railways, the Underground trains are frequently held motionless for some minutes at that very spot.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Lestrade and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station.
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Lestrade and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station.
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Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington
26/06/09 15:36 Filed in: Locations
The garish Italian restaurant where Holmes dined during the investigation and arranged for Watson to join him with various burglary tools.
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13 Caulfield Gardens, Kensington
26/06/09 15:32 Filed in: Locations
Home of Hugo Oberstein. This is a fictional address.
It is a considerable house, unfurnished, so far as I could judge, in the upper rooms. Oberstein lived there with a single valet, who was probably a confederate entirely in his confidence.
Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced, pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
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It is a considerable house, unfurnished, so far as I could judge, in the upper rooms. Oberstein lived there with a single valet, who was probably a confederate entirely in his confidence.
Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced, pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
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Campden Mansions, Notting Hill
26/06/09 15:29 Filed in: Locations
Home of Louis La Rothiere mentioned by Mycroft Holmes in his note to Sherlock Holmes. (see Letters, telegrams, notices etc.)
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13 Great George Street, Westminster
26/06/09 15:24 Filed in: Locations
Home of Adolph Meyer mentioned by Mycroft Holmes in his note of Sherlock Holmes (see Messages and Rituals)
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- This house would be have been demolished when this story was written, but still standing in 1895 when it took place.
Woolwich Station
26/06/09 15:20 Filed in: Locations
He (Sherlock Holmes) relapsed into a silent reverie, which lasted until the slow train drew up at last in Woolwich Station.
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London Bridge
26/06/09 15:18 Filed in: Locations
Barclay Square, London
26/06/09 14:34 Filed in: Locations
Where Admiral Sinclair had a house and where Sir James Walter dined on the evening of the incident.
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- (There is not a Barclay Square in London, but since Berkeley and Barclay are pronounced very much the same in English, perhaps ACD was thinking of this famous square.)
Admiralty
26/06/09 14:30 Filed in: Locations
“As to the Admiralty — it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive.” (Mycroft Holmes)
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Woolwich Theatre
26/06/09 14:25 Filed in: Locations
There were also (in the pocket of Cadogan West) two dress-circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre, dated for that very evening.
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Woolwich Branch of the Capital and Counties Bank
26/06/09 14:20 Filed in: Locations
He had also a cheque-book on the Woolwich branch of the Capital and Counties Bank.
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Metropolitan line/Willesden and outlying junctions
26/06/09 14:14 Filed in: Locations
“The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions."
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- Underground Map (Magenta or dark red line)
Aldgate Station Underground system
26/06/09 14:12 Filed in: Locations
Woolwich Arsenal
26/06/09 14:03 Filed in: Locations
Where Arthur Cadogan West worked and where the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine were kept.
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Hugo Oberstein
26/06/09 13:54 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Foreign spy and murderer of Arthur Cadogan West.
Known to be in town on Monday and is now reported as having left.
Known to be in town on Monday and is now reported as having left.
Clerk in the Ticket Office at Woolwich station
26/06/09 13:53 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Who was able to say with confidence that he saw Cadogan West — whom he knew well by sight — upon the Monday night, and that he went to London by the 8:15 to London Bridge. He was alone and took a single third-class ticket. The clerk was struck at the time by his excited and nervous manner. So shaky was he that he could hardly pick up his change, and the clerk had helped him with it.
Night watchman at the Woolwich Arsenal
26/06/09 13:51 Filed in: Incidental Characters
He is an old soldier and a most trustworthy man.
Mother of Arthur Cadogan West
26/06/09 13:50 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The old lady was too dazed with grief to be of any use to us.
Unknown passenger
26/06/09 13:48 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“A passenger who passed Aldgate in an ordinary Metropolitan train about 11:40 on Monday night declares that he heard a heavy thud, as of a body striking the line, just before the train reached the station.” ((nspector Lestrade)
Old gentleman who represented the railway company
26/06/09 13:45 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A courteous red-faced old gentleman represented the railway company.
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Mr Sidney Johnson
26/06/09 13:41 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Senior clerk and draughtsman at the Woolwich Arsenal. Read More...
Admiral Sinclair of Barclay Square
26/06/09 13:40 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Sir James Walter dined at his house on the evening the incident occurred.
Sir James Walter
26/06/09 13:39 Filed in: Incidental Characters
"The actual official guardian of the papers is the famous government expert, Sir James Walter. whose decorations and sub-titles fill two lines of a book of reference. He has grown gray in the service, is a gentleman, a favoured guest in the most exalted houses, and, above all, a man whose patriotism is beyond suspicion." (Mycroft Holmes)
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Mason, a plate-layer
26/06/09 13:33 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“His dead body was discovered by a plate-layer named Mason, just outside Aldgate Station on the Underground system in London.”
- A workman who lays down the rails of a railway and fixes them to the sleepers or ties.
Miss Violet Westbury
26/06/09 13:10 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Fiancee of Arthur Cadogan West. He left her in the fog about 7.30 on the evening of his death. Read More...
Colonel Valentine Walter
26/06/09 13:08 Filed in: Main Characters
Younger brother of Sir James Walter.
A very tall, handsome, lightbearded man of fifty.
A very tall, handsome, lightbearded man of fifty.
Arthur Cadogan West
26/06/09 12:59 Filed in: Main Characters
"The young man who was found dead on the Underground on Tuesday morning.” Read More...
Mycroft Holmes
26/06/09 12:44 Filed in: Main Characters
“Well, well! What next?” said he. “Brother Mycroft is coming round.”
“Why not?” I asked.
“Why not? It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall — that is his cycle. Once, and only once, he has been here. What upheaval can possibly have derailed him?” Read More...
“Why not?” I asked.
“Why not? It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall — that is his cycle. Once, and only once, he has been here. What upheaval can possibly have derailed him?” Read More...
An area beneath
13/10/08 16:58 Filed in: Additional Information
- A sunken enclosure giving access to the basement of a building often used as a servants’ entrance in Victorian houses.
Inspector Lestrade
02/10/08 14:39 Filed in: Main Characters
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 Martin of the Norfolk Constabulary
26/08/08 15:49 Filed in: Main Characters
A dapper little man, with a quick, alert manner and a waxed moustache.
Inspector Lestrade
23/08/08 15:57 Filed in: Main Characters
“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.”
Mycroft Holmes
21/08/08 23:33 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Holmes’ brother and his only confidant during his exile.
Mycroft Holmes - Coachman
18/08/08 18:03 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
You will find a small brougham waiting close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a heavy black cloak tipped at the collar with red. Read More...
Pall Mall, London
18/08/08 16:08 Filed in: Locations
I took a cab after that and reached my brother’s rooms in Pall Mall, where I spent the day.
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Pall Mall, London
10/08/08 21:46 Filed in: Locations
Pall Mall - site of the Diogenes Club and Mycroft Holmes’ lodgings.
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Whitehall, London
09/08/08 16:34 Filed in: Locations
Diogenes Club
09/08/08 16:13 Filed in: Locations
Famous club in Pall Mall, London of which Mycroft Holmes was a founder member. Read More...
Mycroft Holmes
09/08/08 15:59 Filed in: Main Characters
Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock. His body was absolutely corpulent, but his face, though massive, had preserved something of the sharpness of expression which was so remarkable in that of his brother. His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery gray, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock’s when he was exerting his full powers.
Inspector Lestrade
31/07/08 15:25 Filed in: Main Characters
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
19/07/08 15:51 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
Inspector Lestrade
10/07/08 17:08 Filed in: Main Characters
A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking.... Read More...
Sherlock Holmes
30/06/08 14:14 Filed in: Main Characters
“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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