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Scotland Yard
11/08/09 14:09 Filed in: Locations
Scotland Yard, London
06/08/09 15:20 Filed in: Locations
Scotland Yard, London
30/07/09 17:43 Filed in: Locations
Simpson's Restaurant
18/07/09 15:36 Filed in: Locations
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)
Sumatra - a coolie disease from Sumatra
30/06/09 18:13 Filed in: Locations
A planter. Mr. Culverton Smith is a well-known resident of Sumatra, now visiting London.
It is a coolie disease from Sumatra — a thing that the Dutch know more about than we, though they have made little of it up to date.
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It is a coolie disease from Sumatra — a thing that the Dutch know more about than we, though they have made little of it up to date.
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Rotherhithe, London
30/06/09 18:12 Filed in: Locations
He has been working at a case down at Rotherhithe, in an alley near the river, and he has brought this illness back with him.
Simpson's Restaurant, Strand
30/06/09 18:08 Filed in: Locations
One of Holmes and Watson’s favourite restaurants.
“When we have finished at the police-station I think that something nutritious at Simpson’s would not be out of place.”
(Sherlock Holmes)
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“When we have finished at the police-station I think that something nutritious at Simpson’s would not be out of place.”
(Sherlock Holmes)
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Staples, butler to Culverton Smith
30/06/09 18:01 Filed in: Incidental Characters
All was in keeping with a solemn butler who appeared framed in the pink radiance of a tinted electric light behind him.
Victor Savage
30/06/09 18:00 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Nephew of Culverton Smith who stood between Smith and a reversion. Read More...
Inspector Morton of Scotland Yard
30/06/09 17:57 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Below, as I stood whistling for a cab, a man came on me through the fog.
“How is Mr. Holmes, sir?” he asked.
It was an old acquaintance, Inspector Morton, of Scotland Yard, dressed in unofficial tweeds.
“How is Mr. Holmes, sir?” he asked.
It was an old acquaintance, Inspector Morton, of Scotland Yard, dressed in unofficial tweeds.
Dr Aintree
30/06/09 17:54 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Dr Watson wanted to fetch Dr Aintree to attend Sherlock Holmes as he was considered the greatest living authority upon tropical disease.
Sir Jasper Meek and Penrose Fisher
30/06/09 17:45 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Two of the best Doctors in London. Dr Watson wanted to fetch one of them to attend Sherlock Holmes.
Culverton Smith
30/06/09 17:42 Filed in: Main Characters
“It may surprise you to know that the man upon earth who is best versed in this disease is not a medical man, but a planter. Mr. Culverton Smith is a well-known resident of Sumatra, now visiting London. An outbreak of the disease upon his plantation, which was distant from medical aid, caused him to study it himself, with some rather far-reaching consequences.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Mrs Hudson
21/08/08 23:30 Filed in: Incidental Characters
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
10/08/08 21:01 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“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)
221b Baker Street, London
13/07/08 15:58 Filed in: Locations
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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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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- 221b Baker Street
- Wikipedia
- Victorian London Map (1)
- Victorian London Map (2)
- Layout of 221b Baker Street
Scotland Yard, London
07/07/08 15:01 Filed in: Locations
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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Mrs Hudson
02/07/08 16:41 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Long sufferring Landlady of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
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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