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Foxhound
04/06/11 11:47 Filed in: Additional Information
As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded of a pure-blooded, well-trained foxhound, as it dashes backward and forward through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent.
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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...
Doctors quarter. Wimpole Street and Harley Street
17/07/08 14:41 Filed in: Locations
An area of London renowned for the number of private consulting rooms and specialist doctors.
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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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