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The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 9635
Where was Watson living? Not Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Pre. After SIGN. Monday, June 3rd. I’m guessing 1889 since that is the only reasonable year between marriage and Reichenbach that has June 3 on a Monday.
Characters:
John Watson
Presumably Mary Watson
Maid (at Watson’s place)
Anstruther – takes patients for Watson
Sherlock Holmes
John Turner
- daughter
Charles McCarthy
- son
McCarthy kept two servants -- a man and a girl
~ 6 others in McCarthy household
William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner
Patience Moran – 14 yr-old, daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate
Lestrade
Locations:
Waton’s house
Paddington Station
On the train to
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
Study in Scarlet
Other studies mentioned:
None
Questions/thoughts about the story
close-fitting cloth cap – ah ha! I know this is the origins of that silly deerstalker
Moran – Another duplicate name
“magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes”
- where is Ross?
- More traveling assizes (need to read more about this, try this source: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp)
Lestrade – Why would he be out here? Are London inspectors often travel?
- “left foot of yours with its inward twist”
coroner's jury – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroner%27s_jury
Severn?
“which he wore in deference to his rustic surroundings” meaning?
Barometric pressure – “ “Sunny,” for instance, can usually be found in the range of high barometric pressure — 30.2 or 30.3 inches. “Stormy,” on the other hand would be found in the range of low barometric pressure — 29.2 or lower, perhaps even on occasion below 29 inches.” Thus, one of 29 would indicate a storm is coming.
Violet eyes – don’t exist
Bermuda Dockyard – the island?
“great yellow blotches of lichen upon the gray walls” – Yahoo! Acknowledgement of the super awesome lichens!
Diabetes – This was sort of a shock to read that this disease was considered fatal. I am used to thinking of it as a manageable disease or even a ‘modern’ disease. In the genetics class that I TA’ed we discussed diabetes briefly but didn’t go into the history of the disease. We mostly used insulin as an example of what happened to proteins after they were translated (post-translational modification) and explaining that insulin today is produced from bacteria expressing modified human proteins.
"Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" ???
Other things about Holmes
Carries lots of paper around (for this case)
“his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply”
“monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco”
Other things about Watson
“My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were few and simple,”
I know the military neatness which characterizes you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight
Reads yellow-backed novels
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 9635
Where was Watson living? Not Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Pre. After SIGN. Monday, June 3rd. I’m guessing 1889 since that is the only reasonable year between marriage and Reichenbach that has June 3 on a Monday.
Characters:
John Watson
Presumably Mary Watson
Maid (at Watson’s place)
Anstruther – takes patients for Watson
Sherlock Holmes
John Turner
- daughter
Charles McCarthy
- son
McCarthy kept two servants -- a man and a girl
~ 6 others in McCarthy household
William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner
Patience Moran – 14 yr-old, daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate
Lestrade
Locations:
Waton’s house
Paddington Station
On the train to
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
Study in Scarlet
Other studies mentioned:
None
Questions/thoughts about the story
close-fitting cloth cap – ah ha! I know this is the origins of that silly deerstalker
Moran – Another duplicate name
“magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes”
- where is Ross?
- More traveling assizes (need to read more about this, try this source: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp)
Lestrade – Why would he be out here? Are London inspectors often travel?
- “left foot of yours with its inward twist”
coroner's jury – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroner%27s_jury
Severn?
“which he wore in deference to his rustic surroundings” meaning?
Barometric pressure – “ “Sunny,” for instance, can usually be found in the range of high barometric pressure — 30.2 or 30.3 inches. “Stormy,” on the other hand would be found in the range of low barometric pressure — 29.2 or lower, perhaps even on occasion below 29 inches.” Thus, one of 29 would indicate a storm is coming.
Violet eyes – don’t exist
Bermuda Dockyard – the island?
“great yellow blotches of lichen upon the gray walls” – Yahoo! Acknowledgement of the super awesome lichens!
Diabetes – This was sort of a shock to read that this disease was considered fatal. I am used to thinking of it as a manageable disease or even a ‘modern’ disease. In the genetics class that I TA’ed we discussed diabetes briefly but didn’t go into the history of the disease. We mostly used insulin as an example of what happened to proteins after they were translated (post-translational modification) and explaining that insulin today is produced from bacteria expressing modified human proteins.
"Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" ???
Other things about Holmes
Carries lots of paper around (for this case)
“his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply”
“monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco”
Other things about Watson
“My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were few and simple,”
I know the military neatness which characterizes you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight
Reads yellow-backed novels
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Date: 2017-10-20 06:52 pm (UTC)Ross is Ross-on-Wye - a town in the west of England.
It's unlikely Lestrade would have been called out, but the local constabulary might have wanted a more experienced detective. Otherwise ACD is using this just for the plot.
Severn - River Severn - we live a few miles away from it.
Lestrade was wearing clothes more suited to a country environment than he would wear when in London.
Bermuda Dockyard - the Royal Naval Dockyard on the island of Bermuda. Once Britain's largest overseas naval base.
Insulin wasn't discovered until 1921, so diabetes was a killer.
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Date: 2017-10-20 06:56 pm (UTC)