GOLD
Between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station
18/07/09 15:49 Filed in: Locations
I think I could show you the very paving-stone upon which I stood when my eyes fell upon the placard, and a pang of horror passed through my very soul. It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers. The date was just two days after the last conversation. There, black upon yellow, was the terrible news-sheet. (Dr John Watson)
MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON SHERLOCK HOLMES
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Russian Nihilists
23/10/08 15:42 Filed in: Additional Information
Chubb key
23/10/08 15:39 Filed in: Additional Information
Spirit lamp
23/10/08 15:37 Filed in: Additional Information
“I’ll light my spirit lamp, and give you a cup of coffee before we start.”
- A lamp, used mainly for heating in laboratory work, in which alcohol is burned.
Pince-Nez
23/10/08 15:33 Filed in: Additional Information
From his pocket Stanley Hopkins drew a small paper packet. He unfolded it and disclosed a golden pince-nez, with two broken ends of black silk cord dangling from the end of it.
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Crimean
23/10/08 15:30 Filed in: Additional Information
Mortimer, the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner — an old Crimean man of excellent character.
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Bath chair
23/10/08 15:27 Filed in: Additional Information
- A kind of wheelchair for invalids, typically with a hood.
- ORIGIN early 19th cent.: named after the city of Bath , which attracted many invalids because of the supposed curative powers of its hot springs.
Palimpsest
23/10/08 15:25 Filed in: Additional Information
“I’ve done enough for one sitting. It is trying work for the eyes. So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey’s accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century.” (Sherlock Holmes)
- A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
23/10/08 15:08 Filed in: Deductions
From his pocket Stanley Hopkins drew a small paper packet. He unfolded it and disclosed a golden pince-nez, with two broken ends of black silk cord dangling from the end of it. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
23/10/08 15:04 Filed in: Character Illustrations
Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest. Read More...
Sergius - Professor Coram
23/10/08 14:52 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
"I would have you to know the whole truth. I am this man’s wife. He is not an Englishman. He is a Russian. His name I will not tell.” (Anna)
Scratch upon the bureau in Professor Coram's study
22/10/08 17:08 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
The mark which he was examining began upon the brasswork on the righthand side of the keyhole, and extended for about four inches, where it had scratched the varnish from the surface.
Alexandrian cigarettes
22/10/08 17:06 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
"I have them especially prepared by Ionides, of Alexandria. He sends me a thousand at a time, and I grieve to say that I have to arrange for a fresh supply every fortnight." (Professor Coram)
Packet of letters
22/10/08 17:04 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“These are my last words,” said she; “here is the packet which will save Alexis. I confide it to your honour and to your love of justice. Take it! You will deliver it at the Russian Embassy. “ (Anna)
Golden pince-nez
22/10/08 17:03 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
From his pocket Stanley Hopkins drew a small paper packet. He unfolded it and disclosed a golden pince-nez, with two broken ends of black silk cord dangling from the end of it.
Sealing-wax knife
22/10/08 17:01 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him. It was one of those small sealing-wax knives to be found on old-fashioned writing-tables, with an ivory handle and a stiff blade.
Willoughby Smith's dying words
22/10/08 16:59 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
‘The professor,’ he murmured — ‘it was she.’
The repulsive story of the red leech and others
22/10/08 16:55 Filed in: Untold Cases
I see my notes upon the repulsive story of the red leech and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker. Here also I find an account of the Addleton tragedy, and the singular contents of the ancient British barrow. The famous Smith-Mortimer succession case comes also within this period, and so does the tracking and arrest of Huret, the Boulevard assassin — an exploit which won for Holmes an autograph letter of thanks from the French President and the Order of the Legion of Honour.
Yoxley Old Place
22/10/08 16:37 Filed in: Locations
Alexis
22/10/08 16:34 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“The friend of my heart. He was noble, unselfish, loving — all that my husband was not. He hated violence.”
“Alexis was sent a convict to Siberia, where now, at this moment, he works in a salt mine.” (Anna)
“Alexis was sent a convict to Siberia, where now, at this moment, he works in a salt mine.” (Anna)
Wilson
22/10/08 16:33 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The Constable on duty at the gate of Yoxley Old Place.
Mortimer
22/10/08 16:31 Filed in: Incidental Characters
....the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner — an old Crimean man of excellent character.
Mrs Marker
22/10/08 16:29 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Professor Coram's elderly housekeeper.
A sad-faced, elderly woman came into the room.
A sad-faced, elderly woman came into the room.
Willoughby Smith
22/10/08 16:26 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A very young man straight from the university. Read More...
Professor Coram
22/10/08 16:20 Filed in: Main Characters
An invalid, keeping his bed half the time, and the other half hobbling round the house with a stick or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a Bath chair. He was well liked by the few neighbours who called upon him, and he has the reputation down there of being a very learned man. Read More...
Inspector Stanley Hopkins
22/10/08 16:18 Filed in: Main Characters
A promising detective, in whose career Holmes had several times shown a very practical interest.
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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- Wikipedia
- Victorian London Map (1)
- Victorian London Map (2)
- Layout of 221b Baker Street
Sign of Four
07/07/08 15:20 Filed in: Canon Cross References
The Sign of Four. Regarding the Sholto murder and the Agra Treasure and another novel in the Canon.
Charing Cross Station, London
05/07/08 16:13 Filed in: Locations
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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