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“But Holmes had no idea of the type of people with whom he was dealing nor the lengths to which they would go to protect themselves.”

Sherlock Holmes is brilliant! Watching him in action is to marvel at someone so bright that he can think ahead to the end of the situation before it begins. Watson, a physician, is bright and holds his own with Holmes, but as his biographer, he “reports” what Holmes is doing and is also in the same place as us, the reader: watching a master of his profession at work.

I learn so much from historical fiction!
Page 76 described the class system of London in 1890. The poverty of the poor and the children (orphans), who, “…slept on rooftops, in pens at Smithfield market, down in the sewers and even, I heard, in holes scooped out of the dust-heaps on Hackney Marshes.”
~Dr. John Watson

Page 54: “Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
Street urchins in London grow up fast.

Page 56: “Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

I’m thinking about flat caps right now. May have to get one? Dark green? Yes, I think so. And my new nickname will be Marty “Mad Dog” or maybe “Razors” or “The Ghost”?

Holmes and Watson, two peas in a pod, I love their rhythm together. This book is starting out nicely!

Trying another of his after reading and liking Magpie murders