Sherlock Holmes

"His name is Armitage - Percy Armitage - the second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading." -- Helen Stoner, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

"In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a matchbox." -- Helen Stoner, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

Women didn't figure largely into his life: he never got married, although Watson did. However, there was one woman who outsmarted him that he never forgot. In his cases he seemed to give women a good deal of respect; many of the women he encountered were smart and capable. He even remarked sometimes that a woman's intuition was sometimes more valuable than the most minute analytical observation. So, yes, I think Sherlock Holmes (and by extension the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) did respect women, certainly more than contemporary author Jules Verne, who almost never featured women in his stories and generally liked to pretend that they didn't exist.

"Dr. Roylott then abandoned his attempts to establish himself in practice in London, and took us to live with him in the ancestral house at Stoke Moran." -- Helen Stoner

This is a typical Conan Doyle enigma. The word carbuncle now is generally used in the medical field to describe a type of puss-filled infection under the skin. The carbuncle gemstone from that time is most generally attributed as a red garnet because the word carbuncle means red in gemology. Garnet stones could be almost any color except blue until the first one was found in the 1990s (a century after 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' was published) while they still have not been found in China. The chemical elements that make the sapphire blue, titanium and iron, make the garnet black, but the chemical element that makes the newly discovered garnets blue is vanadium.

In related notes, there is not, nor ever was, a British noblewoman titled the Countess of Morcar while there is no Amoy River in China, but Amoy is the former name of an island city on China's east coast today known as Xiamen.

Serious

If you are referring to the story 'A Scandal in Bohemia', Holmes called it a self-lighting plumber's smoke rocket, which Watson tossed through Irene Adler's sitting-room window. It would best be described in modern terms as a smoke bomb, and it was normally used inside slightly pressurised pipes to test for leaks.

Chapter 6 gives the first, and perhaps the best, description of the moor, but there are smatterings of descriptions throughout the remainder of the novel.

No, the reader learns in 'The Adventure of the Empty House' that Mary Morstan Watson has passed away during Holmes' absence.

No he did not. Watson made the point that Holmes even maintained his clean-shaven appearance while he was living on the moor in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'

". . . I am sure that you inquired your way merely in order that you might see [John Clay]."
___"Not him."
___"What then?"
___"The knees of his trousers."
___"And what did you see?"
___"What I expected to see."

he saw that it was very dangerous and did not like it

Conan Doyle never specifically refers to Holmes wearing a deerstalker, although in 'Silver Blaze' we are told that he wears an 'ear-flapped travelling-cap'. Sidney Paget, who illustrated the stories for The Strand magazine, interpreted this as a deerstalker, an image which has remained to the present day.

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In 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery,' Conan Doyle wrote that Holmes wore a 'close-fitting cloth cap' that Sidney Paget interpreted as a deerstalker.

". . . Shortly after our return to England my mother died - she was killed eight years ago in a railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his attempts to establish himself in practice in London, and took us to live with him in the ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and there seemed no obstacle to our happiness.

___"But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in his house, and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger." -- Helen Stoner, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

They come to the grounds all the time

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet was created in 1892.

All snakes lack auditory organs, so, yes, they are deaf; however, their jawbones can pickup vibrations and their tongues contain extra sensitive scent molecules that somewhat make up for their lack of hearing.

Watson did not take the first nor second cab, but he was driven to Victoria station in a brougham driven by none other than Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother.

Dr. John Watson.

The groom (i. e., a person employed to take care of horses.)

yes

Sherlock Holmes

John H. Watson MD

Mrs. Hudson

Mary Morstan

Mrs. Cecil Forrester

Thaddeus Sholto

Bartholomew Sholto

Wiggins and the Baker Street Irregulars

Williams (T. Sholto's servant)

Lal Rao (B. Sholto's servant)

McMurdo (B. Sholto's servant)

Mrs. Bernstone (B. Sholto's servant)

Sherman (owner of Toby the dog)

unnamed police and inspectors

Mordecai Smith (boat owner)

Mrs. Smith (his wife)

Jim and Jack Smith (their sons)

Achmet (rajah's servant killed for treasure which was stolen by Maj. Sholto)

H. Watson Sr. & Jr. (Watson's late father and late elder brother)

Captain Arthur Morstan (Mary Morstan's late father)

Major John Sholto (late father of Thaddeus and Bartholomew & friend of Captain Morstan)

Jonathan Small

Mahomet Singh

Dost Akbar

Abdullah Khan

Tonga

Lal Chowdar (Maj. Sholto's late servant)

John Holder (saved Small's life)

Abelwhite (plantation owner)

Dawson (Abelwhite's manager)

Dr. Somerton (prison physician)

Lt. Bromley Brown (prison guard)

This is not a question in Polish language or culture

When Sir Charles died, he was running for his life away from the safety of Baskerville Hall.

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