Sherlock Holmes

The first name of Sherlock Holmes's housekeeper has never been identified, although Marie (young version) or Martha (older version) have been mentioned, nobody is quite sure though of her first name.

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Martha is the name of Von Bork's housekeeper in 'His Last Bow' who turns out be in league with Holmes and Watson. It is speculated that this Martha is the one and only Mrs. Hudson who lived below them for so many years.

Answer Holmes recocgnises that Wilson's duties as a member of The Red Headed League, copying out The Encyclopedia Britannica, is pointless, so he searches for the real reason. This to ensure that Wilson is not at home while the villains use his cellar to tunnel into an adjacent bank vault.

He wanted to learn the business.

Holmes already suspected that Vincent Spaulding was up to no good in 'The Red-headed League,' but he needed to know why. He beat his walking stick upon the pavement, and he determined from this by the solid sound he heard that a tunnel would not be in front of the pawnbroker's shop. When he knocked on the door and saw the soiled knees of Spaulding's trousers, his suspicions were confirmed that a tunnel must be under construction. Holmes then walked around the block (BEHIND the pawnbroker's shop) to find the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank.

Holmes examines something like the walking stick and tries to figure out as much information as he can from it. As an example, he figures out that the owner of the stick has a dog because there are tooth marks in the stick. He determined that the dog is not that big because it has to grip the stick tightly to carry it, meaning there are deep tooth marks. He figures out what extensive size the dog is from how far apart the tooth marks are. This kind of reasoning can help him figure out who committed a crime because it allows him to get a lot of information from a small clue.

You must be referring this passage from 'The Red-Headed League.'

'Three gilt balls and a brown board with "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids.'

The coat-of-arms of the house of the Medici family of Lombardy had three gilt (gold) balls, and they were the first money lenders in London during the middle ages. Since that time, three gilt balls had come to be the universal symbol for a pawn-broker's shop. Holmes probably had an epiphany when he realised there is another institution famous for money-lending.

I provide two reasons. First, she was found whipped, bruised, and bound to a beam after the hound is killed, indicating she was less than cooperative with her brother at least on that night. Then this: "On the morning after the death of the hound the fog had lifted and we were guided by Mrs Stapleton to the point where they had found a path way through the bog. It helped us to realize the horror of this woman's life when we saw the eagerness and joy with which she laid us on her husband's track." -- Dr. Watson, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

Sherlock Holmes did describe himself as being very lazy but his brother was even more lazy than he was.

Sherlock Holmes' sexuality is not explicitly stated in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. Some interpretations and adaptations of the character have portrayed him as gay, while others have not. Ultimately, Holmes' sexuality is open to individual interpretation.

There is no concrete evidence in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories to suggest that Sherlock Holmes was gay. However, some modern adaptations and interpretations have explored this possibility, leading to speculation among fans and scholars.