THOR
Grappling hook
12/08/09 13:45 Filed in: Additional Information
“You will, of course, get a grappling-hook and you will easily restore my friend’s revolver.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Barrister
12/08/09 13:42 Filed in: Additional Information
Sixpence
12/08/09 13:37 Filed in: Additional Information
The stonework was gray, but at this one point it showed white for a space not larger than a sixpence.
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- A small coin approximately 19.5mm in diameter
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Amazon
12/08/09 12:52 Filed in: Additional Information
Mere
12/08/09 12:40 Filed in: Additional Information
A long, deep, reed-girt sheet of water. Thor Mere it is called.
Balustraded bridge
12/08/09 12:28 Filed in: Additional Information
A single broad span of stone with balustraded sides.
- A railing supported by balusters, esp. an ornamental parapet on a balcony, bridge, or terrace.
Governess
11/08/09 17:50 Filed in: Additional Information
“A very attractive governess superintended the education of two young children.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Gamekeeper
11/08/09 17:47 Filed in: Additional Information
American Senator
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Plane Tree
11/08/09 17:36 Filed in: Additional Information
“The last remaining leaves were being whirled from the solitary plane tree which graces the yard behind our house.” (Dr John Watson)
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Assizes
11/08/09 17:30 Filed in: Additional Information
Coroner's jury
11/08/09 17:22 Filed in: Additional Information
Family Herald
11/08/09 17:19 Filed in: Additional Information
“The copy of the Family Herald which I observed yesterday upon the hall-table.” (Sherlock Holmes)
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Abraham Lincoln
11/08/09 17:14 Filed in: Additional Information
An Abraham Lincoln keyed to base uses instead of high ones would give some idea of the man.
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Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
11/08/09 17:08 Filed in: Deductions
“For example, there is this revolver. Miss Dunbar disclaims all knowledge of it. On our new theory she is speaking truth when she says so. Therefore, it was placed in her wardrobe. Who placed it there? Someone who wished to incriminate her. Was not that person the actual criminal?” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
11/08/09 17:04 Filed in: Character Illustrations
I descended to breakfast prepared to find my companion in depressed spirits, for, like all great artists, he was easily impressed by his surroundings. On the contrary, I found that he had nearly finished his meal, and that his mood was particularly bright and joyous, with that somewhat sinister cheerfulness which was characteristic of his lighter moments. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
11/08/09 16:58 Filed in: Sayings
“Even so trivial a matter as cooking an egg demands an attention which is conscious of the passage of time.” Read More...
Ten yards of string
11/08/09 16:56 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Now, officer, can you give me ten yards of string?” (Sherlock Holmes)
The village shop provided a ball of stout twine.
The village shop provided a ball of stout twine.
Chip on the parapet of Thor Bridge
11/08/09 16:46 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“This is curious,” said he.
“Yes, sir, we saw the chip on the ledge. I expect it’s been done by some passer-by.” (Sergeant Coventry) Read More...
“Yes, sir, we saw the chip on the ledge. I expect it’s been done by some passer-by.” (Sergeant Coventry) Read More...
Revolver found in Grace Dunbar's wardrobe
11/08/09 16:28 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“A revolver with one discharged chamber and a calibre which corresponded with the bullet was found on the floor of her wardrobe.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Dr Watson's revolver
11/08/09 16:23 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
“Watson,” said he, “I have some recollection that you go armed upon these excursions of ours.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Note from Grace Dunbar to Mrs Gibson
11/08/09 14:52 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
The note, as I remember, was quite short:
“I will be at Thor Bridge at nine o’clock.”
“G. DUNBAR.
“I will be at Thor Bridge at nine o’clock.”
“G. DUNBAR.
Note from Mrs Gibson to Grace Dunbar
11/08/09 14:50 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“I received a note from Mrs. Gibson in the morning. It lay on the table of the schoolroom, and it may have been left there by her own hand. It implored me to see her there after dinner, said she had something important to say to me, and asked me to leave an answer on the sundial in the garden, as she desired no one to be in our confidence.” (Grace Dunbar)
Prison passes and permits
11/08/09 14:48 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
“I have no doubt we can get the necessary permits this morning and reach Winchester by the evening train.” (Sherlock Holmes)
There was some delay in the official pass.
We were compelled to spend the night at Winchester, as the formalities had not yet been completed, but next morning, in the company of Mr. Joyce Cummings, the rising barrister who was entrusted with the defence, we were allowed to see the young lady in her cell.
There was some delay in the official pass.
We were compelled to spend the night at Winchester, as the formalities had not yet been completed, but next morning, in the company of Mr. Joyce Cummings, the rising barrister who was entrusted with the defence, we were allowed to see the young lady in her cell.
Letter from Neil Gibson to Sherlock Holmes
11/08/09 14:45 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
The letter which he handed to me, written in a bold, masterful hand, ran as follows:
CLARIDGE’S HOTEL, October 3rd.
DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:
I can’t see the best woman God ever made go to her death without doing all that is possible to save her. I can’t explain things — I can’t even try to explain them, but I know beyond all doubt that Miss Dunbar is innocent. You know the facts — who doesn’t? It has been the gossip of the country. And never a voice raised for her! It’s the damned injustice of it all that makes me crazy. That woman has a heart that wouldn’t let her kill a fly. Well, I‘ll come at eleven to-morrow and see if you can get some ray of light in the dark. Maybe I have a clue and don’t know it. Anyhow, all I know and all I have and all I am are for your use if only you can save her. If ever in your life you showed your powers, put them now into this case.
Yours faithfully,
J. NEIL GIBSON.
CLARIDGE’S HOTEL, October 3rd.
DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:
I can’t see the best woman God ever made go to her death without doing all that is possible to save her. I can’t explain things — I can’t even try to explain them, but I know beyond all doubt that Miss Dunbar is innocent. You know the facts — who doesn’t? It has been the gossip of the country. And never a voice raised for her! It’s the damned injustice of it all that makes me crazy. That woman has a heart that wouldn’t let her kill a fly. Well, I‘ll come at eleven to-morrow and see if you can get some ray of light in the dark. Maybe I have a clue and don’t know it. Anyhow, all I know and all I have and all I am are for your use if only you can save her. If ever in your life you showed your powers, put them now into this case.
Yours faithfully,
J. NEIL GIBSON.
Residue of cases
11/08/09 14:43 Filed in: Untold Cases
A considerable residue of cases of greater or less interest which I might have edited before had I not feared to give the public a surfeit which might react upon the reputation of the man whom above all others I revere.
Secrets of private families
11/08/09 14:42 Filed in: Untold Cases
Apart from these unfathomed cases, there are some which involve the secrets of private families to an extent which would mean consternation in many exalted quarters if it were thought possible that they might find their way into print.
Isadora Persano
11/08/09 14:38 Filed in: Untold Cases
Isadora Persano, the well-known journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science.
The cutter Alicia
11/08/09 14:37 Filed in: Untold Cases
The cutter Alicia, which sailed one spring morning into a small patch of mist from where she never again emerged, nor was anything further ever heard of herself and her crew.
James Phillimore
11/08/09 14:35 Filed in: Untold Cases
Mr. James Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never more seen in this world.
Grace Dunbar's wardrobe
11/08/09 14:25 Filed in: Locations
“A similar one (gun) she concealed that morning in Miss Dunbar’s wardrobe after discharging one barrel.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Village Inn
11/08/09 14:24 Filed in: Locations
Late that evening, as we sat together smoking our pipes in the village inn, Holmes gave me a brief review of what had passed.
Sundial
11/08/09 14:16 Filed in: Locations
“It implored me to see her there after dinner, said she had something important to say to me, and asked me to leave an answer on the sundial in the garden, as she desired no one to be in our confidence.” (Grace Dunbar)
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Schoolroom
11/08/09 14:15 Filed in: Locations
“I received a note from Mrs. Gibson in the morning. It lay on the table of the schoolroom, and it may have been left there by her own hand.”
“She asked me to destroy her note and I burned it in the schoolroom grate.” (Grace Dunbar)
“She asked me to destroy her note and I burned it in the schoolroom grate.” (Grace Dunbar)
Sergeant Coventry's cottage
11/08/09 14:13 Filed in: Locations
This conversation had taken place in the little front room of Sergeant Coventry’s humble cottage which served as the local police-station.
Scotland Yard
11/08/09 14:09 Filed in: Locations
Manaos, Brazil
11/08/09 14:05 Filed in: Locations
“I met my wife when I was gold-hunting in Brazil. Maria Pinto was the daughter of a government official at Manaos, and she was very beautiful.” (Neil Gibson)
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Thor Mere
11/08/09 14:04 Filed in: Locations
A long, deep, reed-girt sheet of water. Thor Mere it is called.
- A lake, pond, or arm of the sea.
- ORIGIN Old English , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meer ‘lake’ and German Meer ‘sea,’ from an Indo-European root shared by Russian more and Latin mare.
Claridge's Hotel, London
11/08/09 13:58 Filed in: Locations
Winchester
11/08/09 13:50 Filed in: Locations
“It (Grace Dunbar’s case) is now referred to the Assizes at Winchester.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Thor Place, Hampshire
11/08/09 13:45 Filed in: Locations
Thor Place, the Hampshire estate of Mr. Neil Gibson. Read More...
Doctor and policeman
11/08/09 13:35 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“It (the body of Maria Gibson) was examined by the police and by a doctor before being carried up to the house.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Villager
11/08/09 13:29 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Who saw Grace Dunbar by Thor Bridge at about the hour Mrs Gibson died. Read More...
Gamekeeper
11/08/09 13:28 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The body was found by a gamekeeper about eleven o’clock.
Joyce Cummings
11/08/09 13:25 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The rising barrister who was entrusted with the defence of Grace Dunbar. Read More...
Gibson children
11/08/09 13:21 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“She (Grace Dunbar) answered our advertisement and became governess to our two children.” (Neil Gibson)
Mr Ferguson
11/08/09 13:14 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“His secretary, Mr. Ferguson, only told me this morning of his appointment with you.” (Marlow Bates)
Billy the page
11/08/09 13:08 Filed in: Incidental Characters
New cook
11/08/09 13:06 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“We may discuss it when you have consumed the two hard-boiled eggs with which our new cook has favoured us. Their condition may not be unconnected with the copy of the Family Herald which I observed yesterday upon the hall-table. Even so trivial a matter as cooking an egg demands an attention which is conscious of the passage of time and incompatible with the love romance in that excellent periodical.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Cox & Co. Bankers
11/08/09 13:04 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatchbox with my name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid.
Sergeant Coventry
11/08/09 12:55 Filed in: Main Characters
Sergeant Coventry, of the local police, who had first examined into the affair. Read More...
Maria Gibson née Pinto
11/08/09 12:47 Filed in: Main Characters
“She was a creature of the tropics, a Brazilian by birth, as no doubt you know.”
“Tropical by birth and tropical by nature. A child of the sun and of passion. She had loved him as such women can love, but when her own physical charms had faded — I am told that they once were great — there was nothing to hold him.” (Marlow Bates)
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“Tropical by birth and tropical by nature. A child of the sun and of passion. She had loved him as such women can love, but when her own physical charms had faded — I am told that they once were great — there was nothing to hold him.” (Marlow Bates)
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Grace Dunbar
11/08/09 12:44 Filed in: Main Characters
Governess to the Gibson children.
“The whole world has proclaimed that she also is a very beautiful woman.” (Neil Gibson)
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“The whole world has proclaimed that she also is a very beautiful woman.” (Neil Gibson)
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Neil Gibson
11/08/09 12:33 Filed in: Main Characters
The Gold King.
“You mean the American Senator?”
“Well, he was once Senator for some Western state, but is better known as the greatest gold-mining magnate in the world.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
“You mean the American Senator?”
“Well, he was once Senator for some Western state, but is better known as the greatest gold-mining magnate in the world.” (Sherlock Holmes) Read More...
Scotland Yard, London
06/08/09 15:20 Filed in: Locations
Scotland Yard, London
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Billy the page
25/07/09 17:18 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective.
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Winchester
26/07/08 14:56 Filed in: Locations
Black Swan Hotel, Winchester
22/07/08 16:19 Filed in: Locations
Miss Hunter arranged to meet Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson here and had a private sitting room and meal prepared for them. Here she told her story of the Copper Beeches.
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Assizes, Penal Servitude
17/07/08 16:40 Filed in: Additional Information
Assize Court now known as the Crown Court
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Penal Servitude. Sherlock Holmes fears John Horner will get seven years Penal Servitude if he is not cleared of the robbery.
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Penal Servitude. Sherlock Holmes fears John Horner will get seven years Penal Servitude if he is not cleared of the robbery.
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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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Coroner
10/07/08 17:19 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Coroner at the Inquest held into the death of Mr Charles McCarthy.
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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Janet Tregellis
30/06/08 16:41 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Daughter of head gamekeeper and Brunton's current girlfriend.
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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