GOLD

Charing Cross, London

Dr Watson’s Bank. Read More...

Between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station

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

“We were reformers — revolutionists — Nihilists, you understand.”
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Chubb key

“Is it a simple key?”
“No, sir, it is a Chubb’s key.”
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Spirit lamp

“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

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

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

  • 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.
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Palimpsest

“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

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

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

"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

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

"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

“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

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

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

‘The professor,’ he murmured — ‘it was she.’

The repulsive story of the red leech and others

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

Yoxley Old Place, Chatham, Kent (seven miles from Chatham and three from the railway line).
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Alexis

“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)

Wilson

The Constable on duty at the gate of Yoxley Old Place.

Mortimer

....the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner — an old Crimean man of excellent character.

Susan Tarleton

Professor Coram’s maidservant.

Mrs Marker

Professor Coram's elderly housekeeper.
A sad-faced, elderly woman came into the room.

Willoughby Smith

A very young man straight from the university. Read More...

Anna

Professor Coram’s wife. Read More...

Professor Coram

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

A promising detective, in whose career Holmes had several times shown a very practical interest.

221b Baker Street, London

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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Sign of Four

The Sign of Four. Regarding the Sholto murder and the Agra Treasure and another novel in the Canon.

Charing Cross Station, London

Main London station opened on 11th January 1864.
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Dr John Watson

Companion and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes

“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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