Feb 28, 2018
"Now Watson, the fair sex is your department." [SECO]
John Watson knew women; Holmes tells us so. And Watson certainly tells us so, in his admiration of Mary Morstan as well as his description of some of the leading ladies of the Canon. He also told us outright in The Sign of Four that he's managed to get around:
Feb 21, 2018
"never more seen in this world" [THOR]
In "The Problem of Thor Bridge," Watson treats us to a tantalizing look at the possibilities that lie before us as readers:
"Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travelworn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson,...
Feb 14, 2018
"applying his tape to the walls" [STUD]
There's quite a bit we know about the inner sanctum of Sherlock
Holmes and Dr. Watson at 221B Baker Street. The cozy sitting room
with its fireplace and windows at once beckons us in to look
around.
Upon glancing at the walls, though: what do we see? Is it typical of Victorian...
Feb 7, 2018
"Good old index. You can't beat it." [SUSS]
Sherlock Holmes had quite the index. We get glimpses of it in use at various times throughout the Canon, from a biographical reference to a logging of crime. Was Holmes's index a single large volume, or many smaller volumes? Was it hardbound or simply an assembly of...