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The Adventure of Black Peter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 8121
Where was Watson living? Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Post. July 1895
Characters:
John Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Stanley Hopkins - 30
Captain Peter Carey/Black Peter – 50, seal and whale fisher
Carey’s wife
Carey’s daughter – glad to see abusive father die
2 female servants
John Hopley Neligan – 20,
Neligan - West-country bankers
Dawson – retired West-country banker
James Lancaster
Hugh Pattins
Patrick Cairns - harpooner
Locations:
221B Baker Street
Woodman’s Lee, Forest Row, Sussex
Brambletye Hotel (briefly mentioned)
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
Lots of unnamed issues from clients during 1895
Duke of Holdernesse – Priory School
sudden death of Cardinal Tosca—an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope
arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer
tragedy of Woodman’s Lee
Dawson and Neligan ruining a village
Other studies mentioned:
None
Questions about the story
Wire = telegram?
Dundee? Oh! This is a place in UK. I’m thinking Crocodile Dundee and Australia.
“drive his wife and his daughter out of doors in the middle of the night, and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams.” Why would this even be allowed? Vicar remonstrated him. He was summoned for attacking the vicar but not his own family.
“As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.” Now wait, wasn’t there a previous story where Holmes couldn’t find clues because the ground was hard as iron?
Tantalus
Stock Exchange securities
sheath-knife
four-wheeler = carriage?
“Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable “weald,” for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.”
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weald
- There is probably more history in this statement than I understand
“nothing save these ravaged groves and great scars in the earth show the work of the past.”
- More history stuff. The forest once existed but now is gone and it’s a field?
Are there any old growth forests left in the UK? Most of the US has been clear cut but there are a few hidden, hard to access places that still have old growth.
ribston-pippin – I’m guessing this does not refer to the apple variety.
“As soon as I get my kit.” – kit?
“Have you your papers?” – papers?
Ending with both Holmes and Watson going to Norway for some reason.
Other things about Holmes
“lived for his art’s sake… So unworldly was he—or so capricious—that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.”
- Like this about Holmes. Well, like most things this can go either way. It’s helpful to poorer clientele who have an interesting problem. Hopefully their problem is interesting enough…
Captain Basil – disguise
five small refuges in different parts of London in which he was able to change his personality
Being rather tough on Hopkins… sheesh.
“Let us walk in these beautiful woods, Watson, and give a few hours to the birds and the flowers.”
Other things about Watson
“it was not my habit to force a confidence”
Did not participate in Holmes’ ridiculous harpoon experiment.
“It was a long and melancholy vigil, and yet brought with it something of the thrill which the hunter feels when he lies beside the water pool.”
Waxing poetically and totally an adrenaline junkie.
“muzzle of the revolver to his temple”
- Handles the revolver
The Adventure of Black Peter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 8121
Where was Watson living? Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Post. July 1895
Characters:
John Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Stanley Hopkins - 30
Captain Peter Carey/Black Peter – 50, seal and whale fisher
Carey’s wife
Carey’s daughter – glad to see abusive father die
2 female servants
John Hopley Neligan – 20,
Neligan - West-country bankers
Dawson – retired West-country banker
James Lancaster
Hugh Pattins
Patrick Cairns - harpooner
Locations:
221B Baker Street
Woodman’s Lee, Forest Row, Sussex
Brambletye Hotel (briefly mentioned)
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
Lots of unnamed issues from clients during 1895
Duke of Holdernesse – Priory School
sudden death of Cardinal Tosca—an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope
arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer
tragedy of Woodman’s Lee
Dawson and Neligan ruining a village
Other studies mentioned:
None
Questions about the story
Wire = telegram?
Dundee? Oh! This is a place in UK. I’m thinking Crocodile Dundee and Australia.
“drive his wife and his daughter out of doors in the middle of the night, and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams.” Why would this even be allowed? Vicar remonstrated him. He was summoned for attacking the vicar but not his own family.
“As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.” Now wait, wasn’t there a previous story where Holmes couldn’t find clues because the ground was hard as iron?
Tantalus
Stock Exchange securities
sheath-knife
four-wheeler = carriage?
“Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable “weald,” for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.”
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weald
- There is probably more history in this statement than I understand
“nothing save these ravaged groves and great scars in the earth show the work of the past.”
- More history stuff. The forest once existed but now is gone and it’s a field?
Are there any old growth forests left in the UK? Most of the US has been clear cut but there are a few hidden, hard to access places that still have old growth.
ribston-pippin – I’m guessing this does not refer to the apple variety.
“As soon as I get my kit.” – kit?
“Have you your papers?” – papers?
Ending with both Holmes and Watson going to Norway for some reason.
Other things about Holmes
“lived for his art’s sake… So unworldly was he—or so capricious—that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.”
- Like this about Holmes. Well, like most things this can go either way. It’s helpful to poorer clientele who have an interesting problem. Hopefully their problem is interesting enough…
Captain Basil – disguise
five small refuges in different parts of London in which he was able to change his personality
Being rather tough on Hopkins… sheesh.
“Let us walk in these beautiful woods, Watson, and give a few hours to the birds and the flowers.”
Other things about Watson
“it was not my habit to force a confidence”
Did not participate in Holmes’ ridiculous harpoon experiment.
“It was a long and melancholy vigil, and yet brought with it something of the thrill which the hunter feels when he lies beside the water pool.”
Waxing poetically and totally an adrenaline junkie.
“muzzle of the revolver to his temple”
- Handles the revolver
