Sherlock Holmes

because he said in the text that if the owner of the opium den recognised him he would be dead

Barmaid in Bristol, bigamist.

"At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal." -- Sherlock Holmes, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

He first asked, "How are you?", as they shook hands, and then added the famous line:

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."

Violine.

'. . . There remain the people who will actually surround Sir Henry Baskerville upon the moor.'

___'Would it not be well in the first place to get rid of this Barrymore couple?'

___'By no means. You could not make a greater mistake. If they are innocent it would be a cruel injustice, and if they are guilty we should be giving up all chance of bringing it home to them. No, no, we will preserve them upon our list of suspects. Then there is a groom at the Hall, if I remember right. There are two moorland farmers. There is our friend Dr Mortimer, whom I believe to be entirely honest, and there is his wife, of whom we know nothing. There is this naturalist Stapleton, and there is his sister, who is said to be a young lady of attractions. There is Mr Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who is also an unknown factor, and there are one or two other neighbours. These are the folk who must be your very special study.'

Near the beginning of chapter 6, we find the following quote from Sherlock Holmes:

". . . I have made some inquiries myself in the last few days, but the results have, I fear, been negative. One thing only appears to be certain, and that is that Mr James Desmond, who is the next heir, is an elderly gentleman of a very amiable disposition, so that this persecution does not arise from him. I really think that we may eliminate him entirely from our calculations. . . ."

Sherlock Holmes. In Arthur Conan Doyle's original notes of A Study in Scarlet, he was named Sherrinford.

"It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas, I already feel it closing in upon me! My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so." -- Sherlock Holmes

Money. $$$$$

Stapleton shares an eerie resemblance with the mysterious hound that haunts the moor in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This physical resemblance adds to Stapleton's villainous and menacing presence in the story.

In the Red-Headed League, Holmes is able to deduce several things about Wilson when they first meet. Wilson's right hand is larger than his left, indicating he is a manual laborer and he wears an arc-and-compass tie tac, a common Masonic symbol. He also deduces Wilson writes frequently because his right cuff is shiny from rubbing across the desk and his left jacket elbow is worn from pressing against a desk.

The Hound of Baskervilles is a story written by Arthur Conan Doyle surrounding the alleged supernatural presence of a ghostly hound. The hound is later proved to not be supernatural at all. The criminal in the book was the nephew of Sir Charles Baskerville.

1889

No.

The total income [from the deceased wife's will is] not more than £750. Each daughter can claim an income of £250, in case of marriage. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a serious extent.

The story is set in London.

By observation (and by knowing "everything").

Sherlock Holmes. 4 vowels, 2 E's and 2 O's. The rest are consonants 2 S's, 2 H's, R, 2 L's, C, K, M...

She, her, hers, lock, locks, home, homes, elm, elms, some, hemlock, shore, shores, mess, more, moor, moors, room, rooms, Rome, mere, hell, hello, helm, helms, smell, sell, sells, shell, shells, color, colors, role, roles, sore, sores, shock, shocks, here, cheer, cheers, hole, holes, loom, looms, leer, leers, reel, reels, heel, heels, less, lesser, mole, moles, shoe, shoes, seer, seers... (There may be more.)

The code itself is as follows:

534 C2 13 127 36 31 4 17 21 41

DOUGLAS 109 293 5 37 BIRLSTONE

26 BIRLSTONE 9 47 171

The first two entries are page number and second column respectively, and the remainder are the word numbers in that column. The three words in the code are not found on that page and column, so they must be written out.

By the way, you will not solve this code with any year of the actual Whitaker's Almanac.

I am sure it is pure coincidence, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew a Dr. James Watson.

Falling Action- In the early hours of morning, Holmes explains to Watson how he solved the crime. Holmes then realized immediately that Wilson's job of copying the encyclopedia was simply a reason to get him out of the pawnshop for several hours a day. Holmes figured that Spaulding, who spent so much time in the pawnshop's cellar, was digging a tunnel down there to a nearby building. By thumping his walking stick on the pavement, Holmes determined Wilson's basement stretched behind the house, so he walked around the block to see what building were nearby. When he saw the bank, Holmes knew that it was obvious the tunnel was going there. He also looked at Spaulding's knees to see that they were dirty and worn from hours of digging the tunnel. He knew Spaulding would rob the bank in the evening, on Saturday, because he would then have an extra day before the robbery would be discovered and he could escape. After solving what will happen, Holmes contacted Jones and Mr. Merryweather to help catch the thieves.

As a red herring.