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13 In ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Sherlock Holmes refers to Dr Watson as ‘my old friend and biographer’. Dr John F. Watson.
14 Sherlock Holmes had trained in baritsu, a Japanese form of self-defence. Dr John F. Watson.
15 Stanley Hopkins was a young Scotland Yard detective who accompanied Sherlock Holmes on several of his investigations and whom he thought ‘promising’. Sherlock Holmes advised him on some inquiries including the murder of Willoughby Smith (‘The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez’) and the case involving Sir Eustace Brackenstall in the Abbey Grange inquiry. Dr John F. Watson.
16 A nightstick was a weapon carried by a constable on night patrol. It was similar to a truncheon, only longer, and would be suspended from his belt together with his whistle, his rattle and a lantern. Dr John F. Watson.
17 I have not been able to trace Baron von Staffen or Ernst Hiedler and I suggest that they were either unknown to Erik Werner or, like Colonel Moran, they were using false names and identities. Dr John F. Watson.
18 Eduardo Lucas was an international spy who had blackmailed Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, wife of the Secretary for European Affairs in Lord Bellinger’s government, into stealing a letter from her husband’s despatch box which, should it be published, could lead to ‘European complications of the utmost moment’. Sherlock Holmes, who was asked to investigate the case, deduced that the thief was Lady Hilda and persuaded her to return the letter to the despatch box. Eduardo Lucas, who was living a double life as Henri Fornaye in Paris with his mentally unbalanced wife, was murdered by her. She had followed him to his address in London and, seeing Lady Hilda enter the house, assumed her husband was being unfaithful and fatally stabbed him. Dr John F. Watson.
19 Hugo Oberstein, also an international spy, arranged the theft of the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine, ‘the most jealously guarded of all Government secrets’, from the offices of the Woolwich Arsenal, where Arthur Cadogan West worked as a clerk. Because Cadogan West had witnessed the theft, Oberstein murdered him and left his body on the railway lines outside Aldgate underground station, making his death appear as an accident. Sherlock Holmes was asked to investigate the case by Mycroft Holmes, his elder brother. Mycroft, who was apparently an auditor for the Government, was in fact a governmental adviser and was the éminence grise behind all its decisions. Dr John F. Watson.
20 In ‘The Adventure of the Norwood Builder’. Dr John F. Watson.
21 The Reichenbach Falls is a series of waterfalls near Meiringen in Switzerland. It was where Sherlock Holmes met his arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, for a final confrontation in May 1891. Dr John F. Watson.
By June Thomson
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION
The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes and Watson
The Secret Documents of Sherlock Holmes
The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
THE JACK FINCH MYSTERIES
Going Home
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