batteryopf.blogg.se - The Widow's Cruise by Nicholas Blake

Previous posts in this series can be found here.

Obviously you can’t have a recurring character who is a greater detective than your main character and so Mycroft only makes a second appearance in the canon.When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.” To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from the truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers. In introducing his brother Mycroft, Holmes says “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.This would most likely be Horace Vernet (1789-1863) the son of artist Carle Vernet and grandson of artist Claud Joseph Vernet. Holmes says that his grandmother was the sister of Vernet, the French artist.This may be because he had actually experienced it as it is a characteristic symptom of cocaine withdrawal. Holmes says that catalepsy is an easy complaint to imitate.

Dr Trevelyan had won the Bruce Pinkerton prize, a name very similar to that used later in the title of “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”.

Holmes relates that he should have solved the case earlier if he had remembered the story of David and Bathsheba.

Holmes uses one of his “Baker Street boys” to keep watch over a man of interest.

Although we are sometimes lead to regard Holmes as a loner, here he actively seeks out the company of his friend.

Holmes arrives at Watson’s house, a few months after his marriage, and makes a number of deductions about his current domestic and business life.

A series of posts, containing full spoilers, as I make my way once more through the complete canon, picking out points of interest and reflecting on my personal experience of the stories.