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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.
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)
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.
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
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...
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.”
Colonels, Professors and James
22/08/08 00:16 Filed in: Additional Information
Colonel James Moriarty, brother of Professor Moriarty is referred to in FINA but in EMPT the Professor himself is referred to as Professor ‘James’ Moriarty. In FINA the Professors first name is not mentioned.
Baritsu
22/08/08 00:13 Filed in: Additional Information
Books of the bibliophile
22/08/08 00:09 Filed in: Additional Information
Among the books carried by the old bibliophile were:
- The Origin of Tree Worship
- British Birds
- The Holy War
- Catullus
Sherlock Holmes - Bibliophile
22/08/08 00:05 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. Read More...
Shikari
22/08/08 00:00 Filed in: Additional Information
“I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a shikari.”
- Shikari - hunter or guide on hunting expeditions.
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
21/08/08 23:57 Filed in: Deductions
“I confess that you had one small surprise for me,” said Holmes. “I did not anticipate that you would yourself make use of this empty house and this convenient front window. I had imagined you as operating from the street, where my friend Lestrade and his merry men were awaiting you. With that exception, all has gone as I expected.”
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Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
21/08/08 23:53 Filed in: Character Illustrations
Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
21/08/08 23:52 Filed in: Sayings
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sigerson
21/08/08 23:48 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
“You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a Norwegian named Sigerson, but I am sure that it never occurred to you that you were receiving news of your friend.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Wax bust of Sherlock Holmes
21/08/08 23:46 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“The credit of the execution is due to Monsieur Oscar Meunier of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the moulding.”
Air-gun
21/08/08 23:44 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
The famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum.
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Mrs Stewart of Lauder
21/08/08 23:43 Filed in: Untold Cases
You may have some recollection of the death of Mrs. Stewart, of Lauder, in 1887.
Morgan, Merridew and Matthews
21/08/08 23:42 Filed in: Untold Cases
Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross.
Molesley Mystery
21/08/08 23:40 Filed in: Untold Cases
The Molesley Mystery which you handled fairly well.
Final Problem
21/08/08 23:38 Filed in: Canon Cross References
The previous story and the last in the ‘Adventures’.
Parker
21/08/08 23:36 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Because I recognized their sentinel when I glanced out of my window. He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew’s harp.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Mycroft Holmes
21/08/08 23:33 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Holmes’ brother and his only confidant during his exile.
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.
Card players
21/08/08 23:26 Filed in: Incidental Characters
- Mr Murray
- Sir John Hardy
- Godfrey Milner
- Colonel Moran
- Lord Balmoral (was this the same gentleman mentioned in SILV and NOBL)
Edith Woodley
21/08/08 23:25 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Edith Woodley of Carstairs former fiancée of Ronald Adair.
Lady Maynooth
21/08/08 23:22 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Ronald Adair’s mother who had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for catarac.
Colonel Sebastian Moran
21/08/08 23:20 Filed in: Main Characters
The second most dangerous man in London.
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Honourable Ronald Adair
21/08/08 23:18 Filed in: Main Characters
Second son of the Earl of Maynooth. Read More...
Camden House, Baker Street, London
21/08/08 23:09 Filed in: Locations
“We are in Camden House, which stands opposite to our own old quarters.” Read More...
Holmes' travels in exile
21/08/08 23:06 Filed in: Locations
I took to my heels, did ten miles over the mountains in the darkness, and a week later I found myself in Florence, with the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of me.
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Card clubs
21/08/08 23:02 Filed in: Locations
The names of the Clubs where Ronald Adair was a member and regularly played cards.
- Baldwin
- Cavendish
- Bagatelle
427 Park Lane, London
21/08/08 22:54 Filed in: Locations
Temporary home of Lady Maynooth, her son Ronald Adair and his sister Hilda. Scene of the crime.
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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...
Reichenbach Falls
18/08/08 17:17 Filed in: Locations
It is, indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip. The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.
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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)
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.
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
Inspector Lestrade
10/07/08 17:08 Filed in: Main Characters
A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking.... Read More...
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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