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Holmes and Watson on a train.
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 6/6: The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Part 2 of 2

21st June 2026 Tachybaptus 0

Part One can be read here: The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 6/6: The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Part 1 of 2 The following afternoon, replete with Mrs Hudson’s game pie and gooseberry fool, we found [more…]

Holmes and Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 5/6: The Wolf Man of Mayfair. Part 2 of 2

14th June 2026 Tachybaptus 0

Part One can be read here: The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 5/6: The Wolf Man of Mayfair. Part 1 of 2 It was fortunate for us that George lived only a few minutes’ brisk trot [more…]

Holems and Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 6/6: The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Part 1 of 2

7th June 2026 Tachybaptus 0

In a record of one of our previous cases, to which I gave the somewhat lurid title ‘The Sussex Vampire’, my friend described the episode of the so-called Giant Rat of Sumatra as something ‘for [more…]

Holmes and Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 5/6: The Wolf Man of Mayfair. Part 1 of 2

31st May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

It was a sunny spring morning, and even amid the noise from busy Baker Street the open window admitted the song of a blackbird. Holmes laid down the News Chronicle to address himself to a [more…]

Holmes and Watson.
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 4/6: The Fulham Poltergeist. Part 2 of 2

24th May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

Following Holmes’s instructions, the next afternoon I visited the Fulham Road. At its east end, where it forms the boundary between Kensington and Chelsea, it is lined with the white stuccoed houses of the moderately [more…]

Holmes reading a newspaper with Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 4/6: The Fulham Poltergeist. Part 1 of 2

17th May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

Holmes had often lightly mocked me for my belief in the supernatural. ‘I cannot but suppose,’ he said, ‘that any apparent manifestation of mystical forces will, if subjected to rigorous scrutiny, yield a perfectly rational [more…]

Holmes and Watson in the street
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 3/6: The Purloined Pincushion. Part 2 of 2

10th May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

The following morning, as we were digesting a formidable breakfast of kidneys and bacon sent up by the admirable Mrs Hudson, Holmes was again amusing himself with his violin. After his usual discordant improvisation he [more…]

Holmes and Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 3/6: The Purloined Pincushion. Part 1 of 2

3rd May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

It was my friend’s custom every day after breakfast to peruse the newspapers and cut out any articles he found interesting, to preserve them in a scrapbook for future use. However, these excisions made the [more…]

Holmes at work with Watson.
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 2/6: The Missing Archbishop. Part 2 of 2

26th April 2026 Tachybaptus 0

The Archbishop’s housekeeper, who had been watching us from the edge of the room as we made the horrid discovery, was trembling and trying to restrain her tears. ‘Mrs Armitage,’ said Holmes, ‘we are depending [more…]

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