6. Annie Harrison in “The Naval Treaty”
7. Mr. Thaddeus Sholto in The Sign of Four
8. Inspector Lestrade in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”
9. Dr. Grimesby Roylott in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
10. Dr. Percy Trevelyan in “The Resident Patient”
11. Violet Hunter in “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
12. Victor Hatherley in “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”
13. The King of Bohemia in “A Scandal in Bohemia”
14. Jabez Wilson in “The Red-Headed League”
15. Henry Baker in “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”
MAKING THE GRADE
At the end of each chapter, total the number of correct answers to determine how well you know the Great Detective, and how skilled you are at solving mysteries.
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 241–315
Holmes’s Apprentice 161–240
Watson’s Apprentice 81–160
Moriarty’s Victim 0–80
QUIZ 12
PART 1
Characters
1. Inspector Tobias Gregson
2. Constable John Rance
3. A red-faced drunken man wearing a brown coat
4. A person dressed as an old woman, claiming to be Mrs. Sawyer, mother of the woman who lost the ring
5. A group of young boys, who Holmes refers to as his “division of the detective police force,” led by a boy named Wiggins
6. Arthur Charpentier, the brother of a girl to whom Drebber made advances
7. Madame Charpentier gives Gregson information concerning Drebber’s activities on the evening he was murdered.
8. Stangerson was stabbed.
9. A milk boy saw a man descending the ladder which was placed at Stangerson’s window.
10. Wiggins finds the cab driver and brings him to Holmes.
Clues
1. Holmes sniffs the dead man’s lips and studies the soles of his boots.
2. A woman’s wedding ring
3. There are two letters in the dead man’s pockets—one addressed to E. J. Drebber and the other to Joseph Stangerson.
4. The man was about to sail for New York.
5. On the wall, written in blood, are the letters, RACHE.
6. Holmes gathered up a pile of gray dust.
7. Trichinopoly cigar
8. The letter “A” was not written in a fashion typical of the language which it was supposed to represent.
9. After noticing the address of the hat maker on the inside of Drebber’s hat, Inspector Gregson was able to trace Drebber’s address.
10. Lestrade discovered an ointment box containing gray pills.
Circumstances
1. Holmes examines the outside of the house first—the ground, pavement, and railings.
2. Holmes refers to the men as Patent leather shoes and Square-toes.
3. Holmes wants to attend a concert that afternoon.
4. Holmes plays with a half-sovereign while questioning the constable.
5. The constable saw a light coming from the abandoned house.
6. Holmes places an ad in the lost and found section of the paper, announcing that he had found a ring.
7. The Daily Telegraph blames the Socialists.
8. The Standard blames the Liberal administration.
9. The Daily News blames Liberalism.
10. Once Drebber perceived that he was being followed, Charpentier gave up the chase and spent the rest of the evening with a shipmate.
QUIZ 12
PART 2
1. Part two takes places in the western United States near Sierra Blanco.
2. They were all that was left of a party traveling to the West. They got lost and ran out of food and water.
3. A group of Mormons rescued the starving pair.
4. John Ferrier had won the admiration and respect of the four elders, and upon settling, they presented him with a large farm.
5. Jefferson Hope was prospecting for silver.
6. John Ferrier received a visit from Brigham Young. Young had selected two potential husbands for Lucy, Mr. Stangerson or Mr. Drebber, and Lucy had one month to decide.
7. Ferrier received a daily message reminding him how many days he had left before his daughter would have to marry one of the two men.
8. The code was “nine to seven,” and the response was “seven to five.”
9. A month after being forced to marry Drebber, Lucy died of grief.
10. Jefferson Hope died in jail of an aneurism.
QUIZ 13
Characters
1. Mary contacted Major Sholto, her father’s friend who served in the same regiment.
2. Bartholomew is angry with his brother for revealing the treasure’s existence to Miss Morstan.
3. Major Sholto hired two prize-fighters as bodyguards.
4. He had a heart attack while arguing with Major Sholto.
5. Holmes reminds McMurdo that they had once fought one another in an amateur match many years ago.
6. Mrs. Bernstone, the housekeeper, cannot get her employer to open his door or answer her pleas.
7. Holmes sends Watson after Toby, the best tracking hound in the business.
8. Inspector Jones arrests Thaddeus Sholto, the prize-fighter McMurdo, the gatekeeper, the housekeeper, and the Indian servant.
9. Holmes hires Wiggins and his street gang.
10. Watson and Jones fire their pistols at the same time.
Clues
1. The Greek “e” and the twirl of the “s” are the same.
2. While Major Sholto’s sons searched the garden for the man in the window, their father’s room was searched, and a note was placed upon his chest.
3. Bartholomew added up the square footage of the house and realized that four feet were unaccounted for, indicating a hidden room.
4. “The sign of the four”
5. Holmes finds an impression of a wooden stump and a boot mark.
6. Holmes finds blood on the rope, indicating that the man rubbed the skin off his hands while sliding down the rope.
7. Homes finds another footprint in the attic.
8. The victim’s muscles are in a state of extreme contraction.
9. The footprint is very tiny, and the toes are distinctly divided by a wide space.
10. The person stepped in creosote.
Circumstances
1. Ten years
2. Major Sholto was about to reveal to his sons where the treasure was hidden when he saw a face in the window and then dropped dead.
3. Watson has fallen in love with Mary and is afraid that if she becomes a rich heiress, she will have no interest in him.
4. Following the scent, the dog takes Holmes to a timber-yard, where the wheels of the trolley are smeared with the same substance which the criminal stepped in.
5. Aurora
6. The fugitive’s wooden leg stump sinks into the soil on the river bank, preventing him from escaping.
7. Jonathan Small throws the treasure overboard, piece by piece.
8. He waits twenty years to get his hands on the treasure.
9. Small was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in the Ganges River.
10. The Great Mogul, the second largest stone in existence
QUIZ 14
Characters
1. Hugo Baskerville wrote the manuscript.
2. Barrymore, the butler of Baskerville Hall
3. Holmes hires a boy named Cartwright to aid in the investigation.
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Holmes suspects the groom of Baskerville Hall, two moorland farmers, Dr. Mortimer, his wife, Stapleton, Stapleton’s sister, Mr. Frankland, and one or two other neighbors.
6. Selden saw the stranger on the moor.
7. Holmes brings his young messenger, Cartwright.
8. Beryl Stapleton warns Sir Henry about brewing trouble.
9. Holmes notices the man’s resemblance in a Baskerville family portrait.
10. Stapleton is sucked into the mire.
Clues
1. Dr. Mortimer notices that the ash from his cigar has dropped twice.
2. Sir Charles’s footprints were of the toes only, indicating that he was running.
3. Holmes recognizes the “bourgeois” type used by the Times.
4. An unworn brown boot and a black boot are stolen from Sir Henry.
5. Watson hears a woman sobbing from somewhere in the hall.
6. Sir Charles had a rendezvous with a woman.
7. Holmes finds Watson’s cigarette stub.
8. Selden wore Sir Henry’s clothes, and the hound followed Sir Henry’s scent.
9. Holmes detects a scent of white jessamine.
10. The incident of the convict on the moor and his relationship to the Barrymores complicates the case.
Circumstances
1. The story takes place in 1889.
2. Holmes assigns the messanger-boy, Cartwright, to search for the newspaper.
3. Holmes warns Sir Henry by quoting from the Baskerville manuscript: “avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.”
4. When they step from the coach, the first thing they notice is a mounted soldier holding his rifle and peering over the moor.
5. The mire on the moor is called Grimpen Mire.
6. Archeologists have found remains of a Neolithic man on the moor.
7. Stapleton invites Watson to view his butterfly collection.
8. Dr. Watson finds a note that says, “Dr. Watson has gone to Coombe Tracey.”
9. The hound is kept in the tin mine.
10. Beryl Stapleton is tied up and cannot warn Sir Henry of impending danger.
QUIZ 15
PART 1
Characters
1. A man name Fred Porlock, who was an informant in Professor Moriarty’s gang
2. Inspector Alec MacDonald
3. John Douglas was shot in the face with a shotgun at close range.
4. John Douglas and Cecil James Barker met in America.
5. White Mason
6. Bodymaster McGinty
7. Mrs. Douglas asks Watson if Holmes would keep confidential information from the police.
8. Holmes believes that Mrs. Douglas and Mr. Barker are lying.
9. They could have been describing Mr. Douglas.
10. Mr. Ames, the butler, allows Holmes to use the study.
Clues
1. A bloody print made from a boot
2. A card with the initials V. V. and the number 341 were found near the dead man’s body.
3. The murderer stole Mr. Douglas’s wedding ring.
4. If the murder was premeditated, as it appears, why then did the murderer choose a loud gun for a weapon?
5. There is a piece of plaster on Mr. Douglas’s jaw, indicating that he may have cut himself shaving.
6. Holmes notices only one dumbbell under the side table. The other one is missing.
7. Mrs. Douglas smiles slightly when she is told that her husband’s wedding ring is missing.
8. Holmes notices that Mrs. Douglas is not grieving, and that she has eaten a rather healthy meal.
9. Holmes finds the real murder weapon, along with a complete suit of men’s clothing.
10. Holmes deduces that the initials V. V. stand for Vermissa Valley.
Circumstances
1. The moat bridge is usually lowered around sunset.
2. Mr. Douglas had a scar in the shape of a triangle inside a circle on his right forearm.
3. Since he was in his dressing gown when he was murdered, Douglas did not have his revolver with him. He always kept his revolver in his pocket.
4. Holmes is full of energy, with an excellent appetite.
5. The servants usually retire between 10:30 P.M. and 11:00 P.M.
6. The sound is muffled.
7. Holmes asks Watson if he would be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic.
8. Holmes sends a message to Mr. Barker that the moat will be drained by morning.
9. February 1875
10. John Douglas was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.
QUIZ 15
PART 2
1. Jack McGinty
2. McMurdo stayed in a boarding house owned by Jacob Shafter.
3. McMurdo took a job as a bookkeeper.
4. McGinty stole public money, bribed auditors, and blackmailed citizens into paying him large sums of money.
5. McMurdo killed a man.
6. McMurdo was a counterfeiter.
7. McGinty branded McMurdo’s right forearm with a circle surrounding a triangle.
8. He was arrested for the beating of James Stanger.
9. McMurdo was assigned to kill Chester Wilcox, the chief foreman of the Iron Dyke Company, along with his family.
10. McGinty was hanged, and Baldwin was sentenced to ten years in prison.
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 226–300
Holmes’ Apprentice 151–225
Watson’s Apprentice 76–150
Moriarty’s Victim 0–75
QUIZ 16
1. B.
Watson has gained seven and a half pounds.
2. C.
He wears a black mask over his face.
3. A.
A photograph of the King and Miss Adler, which proves that they had an affair
4. D.
Five
5. D.
Irene Adler plans to send the item(s) to the fiancée’s family, the King of Scandinavia.
6. C.
An ill-kept groom and a benevolent clergyman
7. A.
Holmes has Watson throw a smoke rocket into her room and shout “Fire!”.
8. A.
She falls in love with another man and marries him.
9. D.
The sovereign that she gave Holmes for assisting her in the Church of St. Monica
10. B.
The photograph that Irene Adler left behind
QUIZ 17
1. The pink-stained fish tattoo on his right wrist is of a Chinese design, and Mr. Wilson had Chinese coins dangling from his watch chain.
2. Ezekiah Hopkins is a fictitious person who is supposedly an American millionaire who founded the Red-Headed League.
3. Jabez Wilson is the owner of a small pawnbroker’s business at Coburg Square.
4. Mr. Wilson was asked to copy the Encyclopedia Britannica, and he was required to work from 10:00 A. M. to 2:00P.M.
5. The office of a manufacturer of artificial kneecaps
6. Inspector Peter Jones whose only positive virtue, according to Holmes, is his bravery.
7. French gold, 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of France
8. The knees of Vincent Spaulding’s trousers are worn, wrinkled, and stained, apparently from burrowing.
9. Mr. Merryweather, the chairman of the bank directors
10. Holmes realized that something of value was hidden in or near the pawnbroker’s office, because Mr. Wilson’s job of copying the encyclopedia kept him away from this location for several hours each day.
QUIZ 18
1. True
2. False—Mary’s father was a plumber.
3. False—They plan to marry at St. Saviour’s, near King’s Cross.
4. True
5. True
6. False—Mary runs an ad in the Chronicle.
7. False—Mary supplements her inheritance by working as a typist.
8. True
9. False—Holmes threatens to strike Windibank with a whip.
10. False—The solution is obvious to Holmes because of Hosmer Angel’s strange conduct and the fact that Angel and James Windibank were never seen together.
QUIZ 19
1. C.
Both John Turner and Charles McCarthy were widowers with one teenaged c
hild each, a daughter and a son, respectively.
2. D.
William Crowder, the gamekeeper
3. B.
Patience Moran
4. B.
Something about a rat
5. D.
A gray coat of some sort
6. C.
James refused to marry Alice Turner.
7. A.
Charles McCarthy was struck on the left side of his head.
8. C.
The rock had been moved because there is grass growing under it.
9. D.
John Turner was a member of a gang of wagon robbers.
10. B.
Cooee and rat
QUIZ 20
1. John Openshaw remembers how Holmes saved Major Prendergast from a scandal concerning his cheating at cards in the Tankerville Club.
2. Elias Openshaw opened a plantation in Florida and served in the Confederate Army under Andrew Jackson.
3. Uncle Elias received a strange letter from India in March and died seven weeks later.
4. Three men received the message: John Openshaw, his father, and his uncle. Each one died shortly afterward.
5. John Openshaw gives Holmes a piece of unburned paper that he salvaged from the remains of the papers that his uncle burned.
6. “S.H. for J.O.” (Sherlock Holmes for John Openshaw)
7. Holmes reviews the ship registers and files of Lloyd’s and traces the activities of all the ships that docked at Pondicherry in January and February of 1883. He is then able to trace one ship back to the United States; this ship is now docked in London.
8. Lone Star
9. In each case, there was no sign of violence. Their deaths were made to look like suicides or accidents.
10. “A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle.”
QUIZ 21
1. False—After reading De Quincey’s description of his dreams, Isa Whitney tries to induce the same effect by lacing his tobacco with laudanum.
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