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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 7843
Where was Watson living? Not Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Pre. Dec 27. After Watson/Morstan Marriage (1888). After SCAN and TWIS.
Characters:
John Watson
Sherlock Holmes
commissionaire Peterson
Countess of Morcar
John Horner - a plumber
James (Jem) Ryder - upper-attendant at the hotel
Catherine Cusack - maid to the Countess
Inspector Bradstreet
landlord of small public-house
Breckinridge – geese seller
Bill - a boy helping Breckinridge
Mrs. Maggie Oakshott
Maudsley – thief/criminal, knows Ryder
Locations:
221B Baker Street
Tottenham Court Road to Goodge Street (near the British Museum)
Hotel Cosmopolitan
Alpha Inn (near the British Museum)
Wimpole Street/Harley Street/Wigmore Street/Oxford Street
small public-house near Holborn
Covent Garden
117, Brixton Road
Kilburn – Maudsley’s house
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
“my attempt to recover the Irene Adler papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the adventure of the man with the twisted lip.”
“last six cases which I have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any legal crime.” Still three more are not mentioned!
Other studies mentioned:
None
Questions about the story
“four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles” Eep, that’s a lot of people… Which brings me to when did a census start, assuming that number was calculated by a census? Where was that data published?
Billycock – type of hat
“back of Tottenham Court Road” same side or opposite of the British Museum?
“It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing.” Elastic, as in rubber?
“a man with so large a brain must have something in it.” – Phrenology!
lime-cream – Oh! This is cool. Invented by Eugene Rimmel in ~1864 and is a water-in-oil (almond and lime water) hair product (book reference: Handbook on Cosmetics https://books.google.com/books?id=5YNGAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA534&lpg=PA534&dq=%22lime-cream%22+men+hair+product&source=bl&ots=jyJvM79zYD&sig=2JcVbtX8r9WLEV_KbOKt8lORx3M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifyMGThevWAhXCQiYKHZFHBxE4ChDoAQhNMAE#v=onepage&q=%22lime-cream%22%20men%20hair%20product&f=false)/ . Rimmel, the company, is still around.
“gritty, grey dust of the street” – guessing this is due to the coal being burned and the general dirtiness of the city.
“fluffy brown dust of the house” – my house dust is not brown, it’s more of a grey and fluffy.
More info about tallow and tallow candles (links get a little preachy, blah) - http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2012/02/how-to-render-beef-tallow.html and http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2014/01/tallow-emergency-candles.html
“brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size”, “forty-grain weight” – so ~ 1 cm in size and ~2.6 g
Assizes?
Newspapers - Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James’s, Evening News, Standard, Echo,
Vitriol – sulfuric acid
Scotch bonnet?
“we turn our dinner into a supper” – meal order? I use dinner and supper interchangeably.
doctors’ quarter?
Wimpole Street/Harley Street and Wigmore Street/Oxford Street run parallel to each other. Missing a step there… Directions not to be taken literally.
“zigzag of slums to Covent Garden” - there are a lot of theater places around that area now. When did the theaters move in?
“7s. 6d.” s is shillings and d is?
“the ‘Pink ’un’ protruding out of his pocket”?
Brandy fixing things again…
“What a shrimp it is” what?
Pentonville – jail. What other jails are in the area?
Other things about Holmes
“He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.”
Letting the guy go.
Other things about Watson
Working a practice and doing rounds
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 7843
Where was Watson living? Not Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Pre. Dec 27. After Watson/Morstan Marriage (1888). After SCAN and TWIS.
Characters:
John Watson
Sherlock Holmes
commissionaire Peterson
Countess of Morcar
John Horner - a plumber
James (Jem) Ryder - upper-attendant at the hotel
Catherine Cusack - maid to the Countess
Inspector Bradstreet
landlord of small public-house
Breckinridge – geese seller
Bill - a boy helping Breckinridge
Mrs. Maggie Oakshott
Maudsley – thief/criminal, knows Ryder
Locations:
221B Baker Street
Tottenham Court Road to Goodge Street (near the British Museum)
Hotel Cosmopolitan
Alpha Inn (near the British Museum)
Wimpole Street/Harley Street/Wigmore Street/Oxford Street
small public-house near Holborn
Covent Garden
117, Brixton Road
Kilburn – Maudsley’s house
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
“my attempt to recover the Irene Adler papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the adventure of the man with the twisted lip.”
“last six cases which I have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any legal crime.” Still three more are not mentioned!
Other studies mentioned:
None
Questions about the story
“four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles” Eep, that’s a lot of people… Which brings me to when did a census start, assuming that number was calculated by a census? Where was that data published?
Billycock – type of hat
“back of Tottenham Court Road” same side or opposite of the British Museum?
“It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing.” Elastic, as in rubber?
“a man with so large a brain must have something in it.” – Phrenology!
lime-cream – Oh! This is cool. Invented by Eugene Rimmel in ~1864 and is a water-in-oil (almond and lime water) hair product (book reference: Handbook on Cosmetics https://books.google.com/books?id=5YNGAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA534&lpg=PA534&dq=%22lime-cream%22+men+hair+product&source=bl&ots=jyJvM79zYD&sig=2JcVbtX8r9WLEV_KbOKt8lORx3M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifyMGThevWAhXCQiYKHZFHBxE4ChDoAQhNMAE#v=onepage&q=%22lime-cream%22%20men%20hair%20product&f=false)/ . Rimmel, the company, is still around.
“gritty, grey dust of the street” – guessing this is due to the coal being burned and the general dirtiness of the city.
“fluffy brown dust of the house” – my house dust is not brown, it’s more of a grey and fluffy.
More info about tallow and tallow candles (links get a little preachy, blah) - http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2012/02/how-to-render-beef-tallow.html and http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2014/01/tallow-emergency-candles.html
“brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size”, “forty-grain weight” – so ~ 1 cm in size and ~2.6 g
Assizes?
Newspapers - Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James’s, Evening News, Standard, Echo,
Vitriol – sulfuric acid
Scotch bonnet?
“we turn our dinner into a supper” – meal order? I use dinner and supper interchangeably.
doctors’ quarter?
Wimpole Street/Harley Street and Wigmore Street/Oxford Street run parallel to each other. Missing a step there… Directions not to be taken literally.
“zigzag of slums to Covent Garden” - there are a lot of theater places around that area now. When did the theaters move in?
“7s. 6d.” s is shillings and d is?
“the ‘Pink ’un’ protruding out of his pocket”?
Brandy fixing things again…
“What a shrimp it is” what?
Pentonville – jail. What other jails are in the area?
Other things about Holmes
“He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.”
Letting the guy go.
Other things about Watson
Working a practice and doing rounds