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Alex JackInspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat To Sherlock Holmes (1994) Ryder gives them a deerstalker the Dharmapa was wearing during his visit to the museum. From Starov they learn of Ryder's intentions regarding the hat, and its link to the death of his parents. In Zurich they learn from Elsa Klein of the nuclear secrets hidden in the hat. Before leaving Switzerland they visit the Reichenbach Falls, where Milton & Kalavinka barely escape an avalanche, and where they encounter Lance Andrews, who they had last seen in Boston, and who, they learn in new Delhi, has also been making attempts to obtain the hat. Visiting the exiled Regent, Vajra, in Sikkim, they hear of Ryder & Cusack's death, and of Holmes sojourn in Lhasa. Gingko sets a trap to reveal a traitor, but he and Milton find themselves stranded in Pleasant Valley. The lamas assist them in reaching Arizona in time for the ceremony and Gingko uses his knowledge of traditions surrounding the hat to forestall the Dharmapa's discovery of its disappearance, but leaves him only a day to recover the genuine hat. The final solution leads to the discovery of Holmes's presence throughout the investigation. |
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L. Frank JamesAn Opened Grave (2006) Having overheard Filby discussing the Time Machine at the Diogenes Club, Holmes has resolved to steal it, and he and Watson travel back in time. They arrive in the middle of a druid ritual, with six months to reach the Holy Land before the Crucifixion. Betrayed by the Arch Druid, they find themselves under arrest. In Gaul they are set upon by brigands, live with gypsies, and are captured by a Sheik, before finally reaching Jerusalem, where they witness Christ's entry into the city. They become separated, Watson becomes a prisoner again, and survives an earthquake. Holmes examines the tomb of Christ, and after recovering the stolen Time Machine crystal they return to the twentieth century. |
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Anita JandaThe Secret Diary of Dr. Watson (2001) Later, Holmes is distressed - Lestrade has given him a copy of the Ripper letters, but in his own handwriting. Holmes sends Watson to Dartmoor to keep watch over Sir Henry Baskerville. Bored with the chore, Watson decides he will attempt to solve the mystery himself. Eventually Holmes arrives on Dartmoor to clear things up, and suggests to Watson that the story might make a serial, rather than a novel. Watson's stories have begun to appear in The Strand (edited by Mary's cousin, Nat), but already he is having problems choosing which ones to write up - there seems to be a sameness to many of Holmes's cases, he thinks. Holmes is spending increasing amounts of time visiting the Watsons, and Mary believes he is lonely. She arranges for him to meet her old school friend, and then a number of other friends. After an embarrassing night at the theatre, Holmes brings them a goose in apology. Upon cutting open the goose, Mary finds a blue carbuncle inside. Mary Sutherland calls on Watson, aghast at learning the facts of her fiancé's disappearance in The Strand. Watson later writes A Scandal In Bohemia in an attempt to preserve Holmes from Mary's matchmaking. He decides to move his practice to Kensington to avoid the attentions of his readers who begin to seek him out after SCAN is published. Mary moves on to matching Stamford up with Mary Sutherland. Watson gets another story when he visits an opium den to bring home the husband of another of Mary's friends. In 1891 Holmes faces Moriarty, and sets off for the Continent in pursuit of him, with Watson in tow, only to meet his fate at Reichenbach. After Holmes's death, Watson resolves to give up writing. He returns to write The Final Problem in 1893 after attacks on Holmes's reputation by Colonel Moriarty. In 1894 Watson's son is born, but dies in infancy, followed shortly thereafter by Mary. Holmes returns from the dead & Watson joins him in the capture of Colonel Moran, but begins to feel that in the light of the things Holmes has kept from him, their relationship cannot continue in the same way. NOTE: In this revisualising of the canon several of the characters become characters in Watson's stories: Hermia Marie Cathcart = Susan Cushing; Alec Brownley = Jim Browner; Stephen Smith = Alec Fairbairn; Henrietta Marie Cathcart = Mary & Sarah Cushing; Lassiter = Frankland; Loretta Lassiter = Laura Lyons; Abel Hucknell = Isa Whitney; Claire Hucknell = Kate Whitney |
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H. Paul Jeffers"The Accidental Murderess" (2005) |
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| "The Adventure of the Blarney Stone" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Paddy Quinn; Men at the Blarney Stone; Pub Customers; Sean O'Flaherty; Kathleen; Jeffrey Hankin; Michael Corcoran; Molly Hankin; Sergeant O'Malley; (Seamus Donnelly) Date: March, 1899 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Ireland; Cork; Blarney Castle; Blarney; Pub; O'Malley's Office Story: After investigating a murder case in Ireland, Watson persuades Holmes to visit the Blarney Stone. In the pub that night they witness an unfaithful wife, a barroom brawl and a challenge to kiss the Blarney Stone which ends in death the following day. Holmes restages the death to trap the murderer. |
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"The Adventure of the Grand Old Man" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Historical Characters: Edward VII; Queen Alexandra Other Characters: Reeve's Business Manager; Dr Harvey Manners; Hugh Kingslake; Silas Reeve; Catherine Reeve; Martin Reeve; Postmistress; Reverend Mr Norman Miller; (Sir Basil Wentworth; Coachman; Reeve's Servants; Colin McGrath) Date: A Tuesday between May and July Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Haymarket Square; Restivo's Restaurant; Theatre; Carlisle; The Reeve House; Chiswick; Post Office; Inn Story: Holmes receives theatre tickets from playwright, Martin Reeve, the Prince of Wales is to attend the same performance. Reeve's business manager asks Holmes to travel to Carlisle, where Reeve is ill and his doctor believes someone is trying to murder him. In Carlisle the learn that Reeve has seen an apparition from his past - a blue-eyed blond young man, the real author of the play that made Reeve famous. Reeve asks Holmes to trace the heir of this man so that part of his estate may be bequeathed to them. Hairs from a wig, village gossip and an old photograph bring the case closer to its solution, but events take a tragic turn. |
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| "The Adventure of Maltree Abbey" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1947) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Athelney Jones Historical Characters: (Henry VIII; The Venerable Bede; Edward VII) Other Characters: Sybil Carter; Harold, the 14th Earl of Maltree; Jonathan Devers Date: December (post-1901) Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Maltree Abbey Story: After her amorous millionaire cousin, Devers, offers to pay her brother, the Earl of Maltree, to disappear, so that he might marry her and inherit the family estate, Sybil Carter asks Holmes to attend a family musical ritual, dating from the time of Henry VII, and warn him off. A tune composed by Henry VIII, and a rosary held by the Venerable Bede lead Holmes to the secret of the family home, Maltree Abbey. |
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"The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman" (1998) Included in: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Marvin Kaye) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Mycroft Holmes) Historical Characters: Oscar Wilde; James McNeill Whistler; John Singer Sargent Other Characters: (Young Woman Bidder; Mr Gordon; Vukcic; Agent of the Kaiser; Mycroft's Agent) Date: April, 1883 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Piccadilly; Prince's Hall; Chelsea; Tite Street; Whistler's Studio; Cox & Co. Story: After deducing that letters from San Francisco are from the wife of Watson's ailing brother, and that Watson intends to travel there to attend him, he accompanies Watson to a lecture on America given by Oscar Wilde after which they encounter Whistler. He invites them to his studio from where a painting of an old Russian woman by an unknown artist has been stolen. At the studio they learn of another bidder for the painting at auction, and Holmes is sketched by Singer Sargent. Holmes visits the gallery where the painting was auctioned, learns that the woman depicted is Serbian, not Russian, and averts a European crisis. |
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| "The Adventure of the Sally Martin" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson Other Characters: Albert Jones; Silver Dolphin Waiter; Sergeant Dobson; Mrs Byron; Joseph Hartson; Clarence Byron; Captain Jeremy Small; Arthur Coggins; Mrs Jenkins; Constable; (George Byron; Alf Jones; Meyer Jenkins) Date: Thursday in July, 1897 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Kingsgate; Silver Dolphin Inn; Aboard the Sally Martin; The Seaman's Hostel Story: Holmes is invited by cotton tycoon, Byron, to the launching of his yacht, the Sally Martin. When they arrive in Kingsgate they learn that Byron has been murdered. Aboard the yacht all fingers point at the dead man's brother as the murderer. A suicidal confession seems to lay the matter to rest, but further investigations on shore finally uncover the truth. |
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The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (1978) Holmes and Roosevelt have been corresponding by post for some time, so when he is performing with the Sasanoff Company in New York, Holmes sends Roosevelt two tickets for Twelfth Night. Roosevelt invites Hargreave to accompany him. After the show, Hargreave is called to a murder in Gramercy Park, outside the home of presidential candidate Tilden, and Holmes and Roosevelt accompany him. The victim, Tebbel, appears to have been shot in the back, in the street, by a robber. Holmes uses Drumgoole's orphans as Irregulars to find out what they can about Tebbel, the dead man, a cocaine user. A trip into Five Points results in a interview with Tebbel's half-brother, and reveals that, during the election, Tebbel had been hired by a man named Charles to intimidate Tilden voters. Roosevelt describes the Tilden / Hayes election to Holmes, who, after an investigation disguised as a merchant seaman, reveals that the plot involves a threat to the President. The case takes them back to the home of Tilden and to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they find Veil, who describes the plot against the President. A carriage chase and a fight on the Brooklyn Bridge bring the case to an unsatisfactory end. Holmes learns from Mycroft the true identity of Charles after the assassination of President Garfield. |
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| "The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade) Other Characters: Jean Frampton; Ferdinand the Pekinese; Alfie Smith; Jezra Gaunt; (Randal Rogier; Stuttering Steve Hacker; Dartmoor Warden) Date: 1886 ("The only King Fediand I am aware of died a year ago") Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Baker Street; Scotland Yard; Gaunt's Palace Story: Holmes receives a letter from a Pekinese dog, who arrives at Baker Street with his owner, Mrs Frampton. While Watson is out walking the dog, Mrs Frampton holds Holmes at gunpoint and searches thrugh his files. Holmes deduces she is interested in the eight-year-old theft of the Shroesbury emeralds and believes that he knows where the jewels are hidden. Luckily, Watson has his own notes on the case, and Holmes visits a waxworks in order to crack an old code, finding connections with the Templars and the Freemasons, and calling on his knowledge of French, before finding the jewels. |
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"The Book of Tobit" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1945) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Inspector Lestrade; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Hudson) Other Characters: Major Edwin Beckwith; Lady Diana Vennering; Young Man; Old Bailey Crowd; Reverend Arthur Whelan; Claiborne; Savoy Messenger; (Sir Wilfred Vennering) Locations: The Old Bailey; 221B, Baker Street; Berkeley Square; The Beckwith House; Savoy Hotel; Church Story: After giving evidence at the Vennering murder trial which sees Major Beckwith acquitted, and recovering a missing Admiralty file, Holmes learns that the murdered man's widow is planning to marry the man acquitted of the murder. He will be her third husband, the previous two having been killed on their wedding nights. He is consulted by Whelan, a clergyman friend of Lady Vennering, who tells him that her previous two husbands had received letters prior to their deaths signed "Asmodeus", the name of a Biblical demon responsible for the death's of Sarah's seven husbands in the Apocryphal Book of Tobit. A couple of weeks later Holmes is called to the Savoy Hotel where the newly-wed Beckwith has been murdered. A few weeks after that, after receiving a note from her, Holmes begins spending more and more time with Lady Vennering, whom he has compared to Irene Adler, and shocks Watson with the announcement that they are to marry. Holmes effects an arrest on the night of his wedding, and we learn of one of Mycroft's early ambitions. |
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| "The Clue of the Hungry Cat" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson Other Characters: Doris Roberts; Captain Jonathan Wiley; Daniel Post; (Robert Saunders; Helen Caldwell; Inspector Davis; Justice Hardwick; Amanda Post; Minnie the Cat; Eddie Roberts; Chief Constable Harris; Lord Brookfield) Date: A Wednesday in late December, 1895 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Sudbury; Mrs Roberts' House; Fire Station Story: The newspapers carry details of the trial of Robert Saunders, accused of murdering his boss's wife during a robbery. Holmes believes him innocent, but is sure he will be convicted. He and Watson visit the burned-out scene of the murder, and hears from a neighbour of how Mrs post's cat, had appeared, hungry, at her kitchen door on the night of the murder and fire. When the fire chief tells him of a burned-up corset and an alarm clock that was still ticking after the fire Holmes is able to solve the case. |
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"The Darlington Substitution" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1947) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade Other Characters: Reginald Tremayne; Darlington's Butler; Lord Darlington; Stationmaster; Dr Edwin Godfrey; Chief Constable; Lady Clara Darlington; Maude Harris; Darlington's Son; Lestrade's Men; (Harris's Son) Date: "The months following the fateful day on which [Watson] was introduced to Sherlock Holmes" Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The Darlington Residence; Surrey; Godfrey's Cottage; Police Station Story: Lestrade sends Tremayne, who says his life is threatened by his cousin, Lord Darlington, to Baker Street, where he asks Holmes to warn Darlington off. Holmes takes on the case, intrigued to find out what would drive the otherwise upstanding Darlington to these measures. Darlington tells him that Tremayne is threatening to reveal that Lady Darlington's paid companion's son was substituted for the stillborn Darlington heir. Holmes and Watson travel to Surrey to investigate the truth of the claim, but find the doctor involved has been murdered. Back in London, Holmes uses a familiar trick to conclude his Solomonic investigation. |
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"The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes" (2005) NOTE: Holmes's adventures with Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson Hargreave in New York (P.109) are described in Jeffers's book The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions. |
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"In Flanders Field" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1945) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Altamont; Von Bork; Mycroft Holmes) Other Characters: Maitland Morris; Cynthia Morris; Staff Car Driver; Corporal; Captain Maxwell; General Sir Stanley Morris Date: Early 1914 / Autumn, 1914 Locations: Von Bork's Terrace; Watson's Harley Street Practice; Paris; The British Front Lines; Victoria Station Story: After investigating the disappearance of an aide de camp in Paris, Holmes and Watson are sent to the British front lines in company of a husband and wife Shakespearean acting partnership. The husband, who is the brother of the General in charge of the sector, disappears before the performance, and Holmes is shot at when he takes his place. |
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"The Paradol Chamber" (2005) |
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse" (2006) Included in: Ghosts in Baker Street (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; (Mrs Hudson; Watson's Brother) Historical Character: William Flinders Petrie Other Characters: Major James "Rusty" McAndrew; Mr Dobbs; Chief Inspector William Porter; Constable; Bradley; Lord Porter; (Basil Porter; Professor Felix Broadmoor; Sarenput; Anthony Fulmer; Geoffrey Desmond; The Honourable Dudley Walsingham) Date: April, 1883 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Simpson's-in-the-Strand; British Museum; Great Russell Street; A Kent Railway Station; The Porter Residence; Mortuary; (Jerusalem; Cairo) Story: Holmes and Watson encounter an old army colleague of Watson's in Simpson's. He tells them of a mummy's curse afflicting members of Lord Porter's expedition who uncovered the tomb of Sarenput, and which he believes is connected to his own recent close encounter with a piece of falling masonry. After consulting with Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, Holmes reads of the death of Lord Porter and his investigation at Porter's Kent home leads to his uncovering an adversary skilled in manipulation of the press, and effecting an arrest without ever meeting the culprit. |
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| "The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys" (2005) from a radio play by Anthony Boucher & Denis Green (1946) Included in: The Forgotten Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (H. Paul Jeffers) Story Type: Pastiche Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; "Venomous Lizard, or Gila"; (Dr Grimesby Roylott) Other Characters: Lord Randolph Landers; Llewellyn Coffin; Mrs Arkwright; Dr Morgan (or Arthur) Ponsonby; Carruthers Minor; Constable; (Stanley Landers; Eric Landers; Jonas Appleton; Ned Baxter; Emma Baxter) Date: September, 1888 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cardiff; Village Mortuary; Ponsonby Hall; Village Inn Story: Holmes is consulted by Lord Randolph Landers, who, having survived the wrecking of the Sophie Anderson, to learn that his younger brother and heir, Eric, had died aged thirteen at Ponsonby Hall, a school for problem boys from well-to-do families, in Wales. Landers has since learned that there have been five similar deaths at the school in the past two years. Holmes discovers that the school's founder is a fomer associate of Dr Grimesby Roylott, and he, Watson and Landers travel to Wales where they learn that all the boys' faces carried expressions of fear, and there were bite marks on the bodies, as if from a small dog or cat. Watson is sent to the school in the guise of a rich Scotsman with a troublesome younger cousin. At the school he learns that another boy is suffering from pneumonia and being treated by Dr Ponsonby, before his identity is uncovered. Holmes and Watson break into the school that night and enter the boy's sickroom to bring the case to a close. |
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Sarah Montague Joffe"Elementary, My Lovely" (1986) |
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Roger Johnson"The Adventure of the Grace Chalice" (1987) |
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Barry Jones"The Shadows on the Lawn" (1987) |
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Watkin JonesThe Case of the Scarlet Woman (1999) Book I: "The Haunted House" |
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Book II: "The Hidden Church" Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Mycroft Holmes; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars Historical Characters: (The Order of the Golden Dawn; MacGregor Mathers; Aleister Crowley) Other Characters: Tanith Hekaltey; Mrs. Hunter; Mr. Gill, QC; Cab Driver; Tanith's Landlady; Policemen; Perkins (Rupert Hekaltey) Date: April 1900 or 1901 Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Battersea; Simpson's; The Strand; Brixton; (Golden Dawn Meeting House) Story: Tanith Hekaltey consults Holmes over her brother's kidnapping, having received a message accusing him of being a liar and a traitor. Her father had died six weeks previously and had expressed concern over his son's recent activities before he died. Evidence in Rupert's lodgings points to him being involved with the Order of the Golden Dawn. Mycroft is summoned to Baker Street and becomes angered at Holmes's involvement in the case. Mycroft tells of a schism in the Order, and believes that Hekaltey has been abducted as a supporter of the sect's founder, Mathers. Holmes, in disguise, attends a meeting of the Golden Dawn, but is later charged by their lawyer with housebreaking. Holmes eventually becomes aware that he is being manipulated for someone else's ends, and it becomes apparent that the case is linked to the earlier one at the haunted house in Chancery Lane. |
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| Book III: "The Scarlet Woman" Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars Historical Characters: W.B. Yeats; (Jack the Ripper; The Order of the Golden Dawn; Aleister Crowley) Other Characters: Policemen; Mitre Square Crowd; Workmen; Perkins; Lestrade's Driver; Commercial Road Denizens; Mr. Dunstan; Cab Driver; Commercial Road Woman; Tram Conductor; Tram Passenger; Labourer; Sailors; Dutch Sailors; Pub Landlord; Foreman Nailer; Cabman; Antiques Shop Owner; Police Officers; Mr. Kelly; Police Driver; Warehouse Worker; Anna Giles; Schoolchildren; Tobacco Warehouse Clerk; Mabel Robinson; George Robinson; Landlord; Railway Foreman; Tanith Hekaltey; (Lestrade's Superior; Man in Dorset Street) Date: Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Whitechapel; Mitre Street; Mitre Square; Commercial Road; Berner Street; East India Dock Road; Public House; Islington; Upper Street; Essex Road; Antiques Shop; Leman Street; Goodman's Yard; The Sewers; School Yard; Poplar; Warehouse; Robinson's Tobacconist; Public House; Railway Warehouse; Poplar Workhouse; (Dorset Street) Story: Yeats comes to Holmes with a story of a vision he has had in which he found a heart with a dagger stuck in it in a courtyard somewhere in London. A couple of days later Lestrade calls at Baker Street to tell Holmes that just such a heart has been found at the site of Jack the Ripper's final victim Mary Kelly's murder. A prostitute has also gone missing in the East End and another similar heart has been found in Mitre Square, another Ripper murder site. Yeats is able to tell them more about the Golden Dawn, and about Aleister Crowley, and his latest vision sends them to Berner Street. Despite Holmes's statements to the contrary, Lestrade persists in his belief that the Ripper has returned. Holmes and Yeats believe that the hearts are talismans forming a protective circle around the site of an upcoming magical rite. Following a lead on the daggers, Holmes learns of Hekaltey's involvement, and his deductions about the site of the ritual lead to an expedition into the sewers of Whitechapel and on to a Poplar workhouse, until matters come to an end on a railway track. |
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Wex Jones"The Recrudescence of Sherlock Holmes" (1908) |
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