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Post by Tegid on Oct 10, 2006 18:09:23 GMT -5
In Holmes' estimation, who was the second most dangerous man in London, who once tried to shoot him with an air gun in his Baker Street home?
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Post by dreamer on Oct 11, 2006 7:47:34 GMT -5
Colonel Sebastian Moran, whose bag of tigers had, at that time, never been equaled.
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Post by Tegid on Oct 11, 2006 8:16:08 GMT -5
Absolutely correct! And now over to your next question ...
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Post by dreamer on Oct 11, 2006 19:46:29 GMT -5
What unusual clue did a dead man have clasped in his hand?
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Post by Tegid on Oct 11, 2006 21:01:27 GMT -5
A scrap of paper, a torn part of a note with alternating words written by two different people. The whole note, it turned out, lured the victim to the people whom he was wanting to blackmail.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 12, 2006 7:39:52 GMT -5
Nope, sorry, paper is not unusual enough.
Here's another hint: The murder victim whispered, "It was she."
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Post by Tegid on Oct 12, 2006 8:02:50 GMT -5
Ah! That would be the golden pince-pez, in the Adventure of the same name.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 12, 2006 12:46:23 GMT -5
Correct!!
We await your next puzzler!
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Post by Tegid on Oct 12, 2006 15:30:25 GMT -5
What was the name of Sherlock's older brother?
Bonus: Many times in the various short-story adventures, Watson refers off-handedly to other cases Holmes solved that the London public was supposedly very familiar with, but that Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote or published. However, one case Watson referred to by name in one collection was actually written many years later and included in a subsequent collection. What case was that?
And please remember there is another bonus question that is still open: Watson plainly tells us that he earned a doctorate in medicine. And yet, on one occasion, Holmes says to him that he did not have the legal right to go by the title "Doctor" since he had only a bachelor's in medicine. Why did Arthur Conan Doyle put such obviously false words in Holmes' mouth?
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Post by dreamer on Oct 12, 2006 18:18:31 GMT -5
Mycroft Holmes
As for the other case, was it the "Gloria Scott"?
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Post by Tegid on Oct 12, 2006 21:45:07 GMT -5
Mycroft it is.
I'm not aware of "Gloria Scott" being referenced by name before the case itself was related to us, but if you can direct me to a place that says otherwise, please do so.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 13, 2006 7:55:46 GMT -5
What did Holmes pay ten pounds for that the former owner had only paid 15 shillings for?
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Post by Tegid on Oct 13, 2006 10:11:56 GMT -5
A bust of Napoleon. And he required the seller to sign a statement relinquishing all possible claims and rights to the piece.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 13, 2006 14:07:37 GMT -5
Correct. For the bonus points, what was inside?
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Post by Tegid on Oct 13, 2006 14:10:53 GMT -5
Ah, that's why Holmes insisted on the release. It contained the Black Pearl of the Borgias.
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