The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories and a Novel from the "Strand Magazine"

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Of course, these "other tenants" are not mentioned once in the sixty stories. Can you imagine the trouble, the danger and the complaints that would arise with sharing these premises with strangers? Holmes would think nothing of taking his pistol and firing one hundred shots into a wall. What neighbor would tolerate that? A coal scuttle containing cigars, pipes and tobacco: The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

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Terraced houses, also known as townhouses or row houses, are rows of dwellings of uniform height and similar appearance which share common walls between them. For elements not found in the Strand Magazine illustrations I used reference photos of Victorian era items. An acid-charred bench of chemicals: The Adventure of the Naval Treaty and The Adventure of the Mazarin StoneAfter leaving, Holmes finds that the clerk at the nearby Underground station remembers seeing West on the evening in question. Deeply shaken by something, he had taken a train to London Bridge. Underground"-branded Tube map from 1908 showing the District and Metropolitan lines with Aldgate at right and Kensington at lower left Looking at the floor plan in light of this, I get the impression that somehow it's okay to include a light shaft which is not mentioned in the stories but was common in a terraced house, but not okay to include a secret exit which is mentioned in the stories but will not be found in a terraced house. And the problems don't end there.

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I created this version completely from scratch using an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil in a free vector illustration program called Vectornator. As annoying as Holmes may have become to Doyle, we have many reasons to be glad that he was resurrected.

During those thirteen years I had read the stories again and again, and listened to them countless times in audio book form and came across details which should have been reflected in the original illustration. Could anyone imagine that Mrs. Hudson included in that price a room that was isolated at the far end of the building on a different floor? I created the second version in 2008 when I was 51, thirteen years after the first version. I converted the first version to vector art and made modifications and additions in Adobe Illustrator.

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The Bruce-Partington Plans" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 by Bert Coules as part of the 1989–1998 radio series starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson, featuring Jamie Glover as Cadogan West and Stephen Thorne as Inspector Lestrade. [18] a gasogene and cigar case together in their old place (the corner, according to A Scandal in Bohemia) Had it existed, could it have been a terraced house? The stories rule out that notion as impossible -- which is a hard pill to swallow for those who insist that it must conform to those other buildings that they see in the old maps and photos. The most obvious difference is the inclusion of the occupants, Holmes and Watson. Nearly all other depictions leave them out. So the curtain does not just cover the window, but must also conceal enough space around the window to allow Holmes to enter and perform his secret task without making any noise or ruffling the curtain. This had to be a fairly large space.

The books were not illustrated, but the flat at 221B Baker Street flat began to take shape in my imagination. Overall content: violence; smoking; drinking; language; some immoral situations (not presented well). Holmes could have simply rented the sitting room and adjacent bedroom for himself with no need to ask Watson to go halves with him. And the stories would lose their narrator. I had a great feeling of loss when my reading adventure came to a definitive end. Also a feeling of relief, where I felt my bounds of duty were cut, and I was able to pursue other literary paths.