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Helen Stoner is Holmes's client in the story "The Speckled Band". Her sister Julia died two years before the story takes place, after hearing a noise like a softly whistling kettle. Helen now occupies Julia's bedroom, and she hears that noise. She is understandably frightened. A friend of hers was a former client of Sherlock Holmes, so Helen goes to London to seek his help.
Sherlock Holmes asked the exceptional Miss Violet Hunter to lock Mrs. Toller in the wine cellar. He wanted time to explore the premises, and he evidently did not believe Mrs. Toller could be trusted.
The great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, described himself as the world's first Consulting Detective. "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." -- Sherlock Holmes, 'A Study In Scarlet'
The Sherlock Holmes illustrations of Sidney Paget are considered the best by many. He illustrated the first 37 short stories and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' for The Strand Magazine before his untimely death, and the link below shows some of them. There is also a Sidney Paget Facebook page with all of his Sherlock Holmes drawings along with some of the others.
In 1893 After seeing the magnificent Reichenbach Falls in the northern Swiss Alps Conan Doyle decided the place would make a worthy tomb for Sherlock Holmes.The Final Problem was published in Dec 1893 in The Strand magazine. People were so upset that many thousands cancelled their subscription to the magazine.In 1901-02 Sherlock Holmes reappeared in the novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.' However its clear that Holmes was not alive. This story took place before the incident at Reichenbach Falls.The short story The Adventure of the Empty House in the book "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" published in Oct 1903 saw the re-appearance of Sherlock Holmes and the description of how he had disappeared.
Sherlock Holmes would gather all the information possible and see if his theory is correct.
Helen Stoner is Holmes's client in the story "The Speckled Band". Her sister Julia died two years before the story takes place, after hearing a noise like a softly whistling kettle. Helen now occupies Julia's bedroom, and she hears that noise. She is understandably frightened. A friend of hers was a former client of Sherlock Holmes, so Helen goes to London to seek his help.
Sherlock Holmes 2 is currently being filmed in the Chatham dockyards and can be found next to the Ropery. I was there breifly before being whizzed away by a security guard.
"You remember in her statement she said that her sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that suggests at once that there must be a communication between the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." -- Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes asked the exceptional Miss Violet Hunter to lock Mrs. Toller in the wine cellar. He wanted time to explore the premises, and he evidently did not believe Mrs. Toller could be trusted.
The great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, described himself as the world's first Consulting Detective. "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." -- Sherlock Holmes, 'A Study In Scarlet'
Mmmm, it might be Sonic the Hedgehog merely because he came much before Sherlock Holmes.Defintly Sonic the Hedgehog
He actually has been to Grimsby before...
The Sherlock Holmes illustrations of Sidney Paget are considered the best by many. He illustrated the first 37 short stories and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' for The Strand Magazine before his untimely death, and the link below shows some of them. There is also a Sidney Paget Facebook page with all of his Sherlock Holmes drawings along with some of the others.
In 1893 After seeing the magnificent Reichenbach Falls in the northern Swiss Alps Conan Doyle decided the place would make a worthy tomb for Sherlock Holmes.The Final Problem was published in Dec 1893 in The Strand magazine. People were so upset that many thousands cancelled their subscription to the magazine.In 1901-02 Sherlock Holmes reappeared in the novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.' However its clear that Holmes was not alive. This story took place before the incident at Reichenbach Falls.The short story The Adventure of the Empty House in the book "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" published in Oct 1903 saw the re-appearance of Sherlock Holmes and the description of how he had disappeared.
Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as a brilliant and astute detective with keen observational and deductive skills. He is known for his logical reasoning and attention to detail in solving complex cases. In "The Speckled Band," Holmes is depicted as resourceful and fearless in his pursuit of justice, using his intellect to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Julia Stoner.
No. 'The Gloria Scott' and 'The Musgrave Ritual' were solved by Holmes before the two even met, and 'The Adventure of the Lion's Mane' and 'The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier' were cases written by Holmes after Watson was married. There are certainly other cases in which Watson had no hand.When Helen Stoner ('The Adventure of the Speckled Band') refers to the case of Mrs. Farintosh and her opal tiara by way of reference, Holmes says: "I think it was before your time, Watson."In 'The Adventure of the Second Stain,' Watson says that in 17 of the 23 years that Sherlock Holmes was in active practice, he "was allowed to co-operate with him and to keep notes of his doings" leaving six years where the two were not together.