![]() ![]() Many of these unpublished cases repose in a safe-deposit box at Cox and Co. Is that significant? Holmes constantly reminds us of the importance of trifles.) Watson tantalizingly alludes to a number of others, “for which the world is not yet prepared.” Recall some of their titles: “The Giant Rat of Sumatra,” “The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant,” “The Amateur Mendicant Society” and “The Singular Adventures of the Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa.” Don’t they all inspire reverie and speculation? (Note, for instance, the word “in” rather than the expected “on” in that last case. There are 56 short stories and four novels in the established canon of the Sherlock Holmes adventures. Watson has just left for a stay with friends in the country, and her husband has, temporarily, moved back into his old rooms.Īnd so the stage is set for one of the greatest cases of Victorian England’s greatest detective. Watson, no longer lives at 221B Baker St., having wed Mary Morstan, whom he met two years previously in “The Sign of the Four.” But, as “ The House of Silk” opens, Mrs. It is the year 1890, the month of November, and Sherlock Holmes is rapidly recovering from three days and nights of starvation, part of an elaborate ruse to trick a murderer, in “The Adventure of the Dying Detective.” Only a few weeks before that, he had solved the ingenious mystery of “The Red-Headed League.” His friend and chronicler, Dr. ![]()
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