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Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Musgrave Ritual (MUSG) THE YOUNG GUYS’ APARTMENT Watson reports that Holmes “was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.” Then he admits, “Not that I am in the least conventional… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Five Orange Pips (FIVE) THE MAN WITH THE WATCH We all love an untold tale, and this case gives us a few. Among them we find “the Camberwell poisoning case” in which, Watson tells us, “Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Creeping Man (CREE) VINDICATED BY MONKEY SERUM! “Mr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years ago agitated the university and… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Blue Carbuncle (BLUE) THE WATSONIAN CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Perhaps it’s an all-too basic question that we all pondered on before, but it needs to be asked whenever this story comes up: Why was Watson visiting the man we think of as his best friend on… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Copper Beeches (COPP) THE REALLY WELL-KNOWN UNTOLD CASES While most good Sherlockians know Holmes’s quote, “you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured,” it’s not often we strip off the rest… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Gloria Scott (GLOR) WHY WASN’T HOLMES TALKING? Watson writes: “I had often endeavoured to elicit from my companion what had first turned his mind in the direction of criminal research, but had never caught him before in a communicative humour.” So basically, Watson has… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Golden Pince-Nez (GOLD) THAT’S ONE HEAVY TIN DISPATCH BOX The ever-enigmatic Dr. Watson begins this week’s tale with those intriguing words, “When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894.” That’s not one, not two,… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Dancing Men (DANC) THE ANATOMY OF A VERY LARGE BIRD Watson begins this tale with, “Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Speckled Band (SPEC) DR. ROYLOTT, MEDICINE MAN Upon getting his medical degree, Grimesby Roylott seems to have immediately left the country to seek his fortune, going to Calcutta, where we are told “by his professional skill and his force of character, he established… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Greek Interpreter (GREE) MY ROOMMATE IS AN ALIEN “This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in… Continue Reading