6. False—He views the video Mary sent Sherlock.
7. True
QUIZ 93
1. They disable Mycroft’s home security system and frighten him into telling them the truth.
2. In Sherrinford, a maximum-security facility on an island in the North Sea
3. Eurus was a violent child, having supposedly thrown Sherlock’s dog, Redbeard, into a well where he drowned. Mycroft was afraid she eventually would harm Holmes.
4. Eurus can reprogram people’s minds in order to do her bidding.
5. Mycroft grants Eurus five unsupervised minutes with Moriarty in exchange for her assisting in stopping a national security threat to the British government.
6. Sherlock’s childhood friend, Victor Trevor
7. Sherlock visits her often. They play the violin together.
QUIZ 94
1. Holmes is beating a corpse to find out how long after death bruising is still possible.
2. Emelia Ricoletti is reported to have returned to the scene, killing other men. Holmes deduces the murders are committed by a copycat killer and decides to continue the investigation.
3. “Miss me?”
4. By tossing him a cane
5. “No.” She doesn’t like them because she never says anything, and, according to Dr. Watson, all she does is show people up the stairs and serve breakfasts.
6. It’s Mary, John’s wife. The reason for her theatrics is that it’s the only way she can see her busy husband.
7. “Thank you. I’m glad you liked it. You are very ugly.”
8. That Hooper is a woman masquerading as a man
9. Female empowerment; women seeking the vote and more control over their lives
10. He tells Holmes that the country must lose the war because the enemy is right and England is wrong.
11. Mary Morstan
12. Lady Carmichael has “admirably high arches.”
13. The Mind Palace, known as an imaginary location in the mind where data, usually in the form of images, is stored
14. A secret organization of militant women in a suffragette movement ceremony
15. Modern-day London
QUIZ 95
1. Sherlock’s father hired Joan to be his sobriety companion for six weeks to prevent Holmes from having a relapse.
2. He tells them she is his valet.
3. He burns it.
4. Irene Adler, his former lover, reappears.
5. Clyde
6. The New York Mets
7. Elvis Costello’s “Watching the Detectives”
8. Captain Gregson meets Sherlock at Scotland Yard after 9/11 when the Captain is sent to the Yard to study their counter-terrorism strategies.
9. She is a transgender woman.
10. While working for Scotland Yard, Sherlock stopped several of her notorious plans, and she wants to study his methods.
QUIZ 96
1. A.
Everyone
2. C.
Joan joins an online dating site.
3. C.
Detective Bell is shot protecting Holmes for an incident that should not have occurred.
4. A.
“The Adventure of the Cardboard Box”
5. D.
Bite marks from the same set of teeth
6. C.
“The Man with the Twisted Lip”
7. B.
Joan decides to leave Baker Street and find her own apartment.
QUIZ 97
1. Singlesticks
2. “The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips”
3. Viewers are warned against flashing bright images that mimic an epilepsy trigger.
4. Joan is in Denmark.
5. Violet DeMervill
6. Joan’s boyfriend, Andrew Paek, dies after accidentally drinking a poisoned coffee meant for Joan.
7. Sherlock has had a relapse in his recovery.
QUIZ 98
1. False—Sherlock’s father, Morland Holmes, is responsible.
2. True
3. True
4. False—Sherlock becomes involved in a romantic relationship with a computer coder named Fiona Helbron.
5. True
6. False—Paige has MS.
7. False—He announces that he is taking over Moriarty’s organization to dismantle it.
QUIZ 99
1. Sherlock suggests that Joan assist Shinwell Johnson, her last patient as a surgeon, in getting back on his feet after being in prison.
2. “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
3. Sherlock offers to train Shinwell on how to be an informant and survive.
4. She reappears to warn Sherlock that he is the target of a killer from a case they worked on while in London.
5. Kitty has a child.
6. He gives her a written confession of his past crimes.
7. He directed the episode.
QUIZ 100
1. Post Conclusion Syndrome
2. To save Joan from being arrested for a murder she did not commit, Sherlock confesses and flees to London, where the British government refused to extradite him, claiming he acted in the service of the Queen.
3. He’s asked to consider applying for a position with the United States Marshalls Service.
4. She moves to a flat next to Sherlock.
5. In response to a comment Sherlock made earlier, Joan says, “We’re not partners. We’re two people who love each other.”
6. Hill directed episode seventeen, “The Worms Crawl in, The Worms Crawl Out.”
7. “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”
QUIZ 101
1. D.
Sherlock and Joan learn Captain Gregson has been shot and is in critical condition.
2. A.
He posed as a researcher for coal tar derivatives.
3. B.
She is to destroy his gravestone.
4. C.
She receives a message that Moriarty is still alive.
5. C.
She fell in love and got married.
6. A.
He has been promoted to Captain taking over for Captain Gregson.
7. D.
Captain Gregson
8. B.
She wrote a book about Sherlock.
9. B.
Paige, Captain Gregson’s wife
10. A.
A report from Joan’s doctor
QUIZ 102
1. Sherlock and Wato meet when Wato’s colleague, Dr. Mizuno, is murdered, and Sherlock is called to investigate.
2. Performing an unauthorized autopsy on the victim’s body
3. The episode loosely follows the storyline of “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot.”
4. Syria
5. She is too traumatized by her war experience.
6. Cello
7. Eat, especially chocolate
8. Stella Maris (Star of the Sea)
9. Sherlock, being a stylish dresser, complains that Dr. Wato’s clothes are unappealing.
10. He is the Prime Minister’s Secretary.
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 137–172
Holmes’ Apprentice 91–136
Watson’s Apprentice 46–90
Moriarty’s Victim 0–45
QUIZ 103
1. May 22, 1859
2. Ten
3. Edinburgh University
4. Conan Doyle and Louise “Touie” Hawkins were married in August 1855. Touie died on July 4, 1906.
5. Plymouth
6. His mother
7. Jean Leckie
8. Conan Doyle had two children by his first wife—Mary Louise and Alleyne Kingsley (“Kingsley”), and three children with Jean Leckie—Denis, Adrian, and Lena Jean.
9. 1902
10. Edgar Allen Poe
QUIZ 104
1. The Stark Munro Letters
2. The Coming of the Fairies
3. Micah Clarke
4. The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
5. A play about alchemy entitled The Doings of Raffles Haw
6. The White Company
7. The Lost World
8. Rodney Stone
9. The Crime of the Congo
10. The Maracot Deep and Other Stories
QUIZ 105
1. The New Revelation
2. Harry Houdini
3. Light
4. The Edge of the Unknown
5. He operated a psychic book store and museum.
6. The Vital Message
7. The medium claimed to be in contact with Conan Doyle’s son, Kingsley, and the author’s brother, Innes.
8. H. G. Wells
9. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
10. Scientific American
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 24–30
Holmes’ Apprentice 16–23
Watson’s Apprentice 8–15
Moriarty’s Victim 0–7
ANSWERS TO CROSSWORD PUZZLES
PUZZLE 1
Chemicals, Clues, and Deadly Things
PUZZLE 2
A.K.A.
PUZZLE 3
In Other Words
PUZZLE 4
Butlers, Maids, Valets, etc.
PUZZLE 5
Canines and Other Creatures
APPENDIX I: THE CANON
TITLES ABBREVIATIONS
designed by Sherlockian Scholar Jay Finely Christ
Novels
A Study in Scarlet (STUD)
The Sign of Four (SIGN)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (HOUN)
The Valley of Fear (VALL)
Collections of Short Stories
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“A Scandal in Bohemia” (SCAN)
“The Red-Headed League” (REDH)
“A Case of Identity” (IDEN)
“The Boscombe Valley Mystery” (BOSC)
“The Five Orange Pips” (FIVE)
“The Man with the Twisted Lip” (TWIS)
“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” (BLUE)
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” (SPEC)
“The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb” (ENGR)
“The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor” (NOBL)
“The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” (BERY)
“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” (COPP)
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“Silver Blaze” (SILV)
“The Yellow Face” (YELL)
“The Stock-broker’s Clerk” (STOC)
“The Gloria Scott” (GLOR)
“The Musgrave Ritual” (MUSG)
“The Reigate Squires” (REIG)
“The Crooked Man” (CROO)
“The Resident Patient” (RESI)
“The Greek Interpreter” (GREE)
“The Naval Treaty” (NAVA)
“The Final Problem” (FINA)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“The Adventure of the Empty House” (EMPT)
“The Adventure of the Norwood Builder” (NORW)
“The Adventure of the Dancing Men” (DANC)
“The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist” (SOLI)
“The Adventure of the Priory School” (PRIO)
“The Adventure of Black Peter” (BLAC)
“The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton” (CHAS)
“The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” (SIXN)
“The Adventure of the Three Students” (3STU)
“The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez” (GOLD)
“The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter” (MISS)
“The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” (ABBE)
“The Adventure of the Second Stain” (SECO)
His Last Bow
“The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge” (WIST)
“The Adventure of the Cardboard Box” (CARD)
“The Adventure of the Red Circle” (REDC)
“The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” (BRUC)
“The Adventure of the Dying Detective” (DYIN)
“The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” (LADY)
“The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” (DEVI)
“His Last Bow” (LAST)
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
“The Adventure of the Illustrious Client” (ILLU)
“The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” (BLAN)
“The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” (MAZA)
“The Adventure of the Three Gables” (3GAB)
“The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” (SUSS)
“The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” (3GAR)
“The Problem of Thor Bridge” (THOR)
“The Adventure of the Creeping Man” (CREE)
“The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” (LION)
“The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” (VEIL)
“The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place” (SHOS)
“The Adventure of the Retired Colourman” (RETT)
APPENDIX II: THE CHRONOLOGY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
1852 August 7 Estimated birth of John Watson
1854 January 6 Estimated birth of Sherlock Holmes
1872 September John Watson enters medical school at the University of London and is trained as an army doctor.
Fall Holmes enrolls in college.
1874 Summer While attending the university, Holmes solves his first case “The Gloria Scott.”
1877–1878 Holmes moves to Montague Street in London and sets up practice as a consulting detective.
1878 Watson is dispatched to serve in the Afghan War.
1880 July 27 Watson is wounded in the Battle of Maiwand.
August Holmes visits America.
Fall Watson returns home from the service.*
1881 January Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meet.
March Holmes and Watson investigate their first case together, A Study in Scarlet.
1886 November Watson marries and starts a medical practice in Kensington.*
1887 December Apparent death of Watson’s first wife*
1888 January Holmes and Watson investigate the case known as The Valley of Fear.
September Holmes and Watson investigate the cases of The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1889 May Watson marries a second time (Mary Morstan). He sets up a second medical practice in Paddington.
1891 January Estimated meeting date of Holmes and Professor Moriarty*
Spring Holmes is apparently killed at Reichenbach Falls.
1891–1894 Holmes is presumed dead, the Great Hiatus.
1891–1892 Watson is widowed, once again.
1894 April 5 Holmes returns to London.*
May Watson moves back to the Baker Street lodging.
1901 October Watson marries again.
1903 October Holmes retires to Sussex Downs on the coast at Fulworth.*
1912 Holmes spies for the government.
1929 Estimated year of Watson’s death*
1957 Estimated year of Holmes’s death*
*Indicates speculative dates
APPENDIX III: THE CHRONOLOGY OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
1859 May 22 Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1868 Entered Hodder, Stonyhurst’s preparatory Jesuit school in Lancashire
1870–1875 Attended Stonyhurst’s secondary school
1876–1881 Studied medicine at the Edinburgh University
1879 October Wrote his first story, “The Mystery of Sarassa Valley,” which appeared in Chamber’s Journal
1880 Spent seven months aboard the Hope as the whaling ship’s surgeon before he finished his studies at the university
1881 October 22 Signed up as a surgeon aboard the SS Mayumba bound for Africa
1882–1823 Joined Dr. George Turnavine Budd’s medical practice in Edinburgh
1885 August
6 Married Louise Hawkins.
1887 November Published the first Sherlock Holmes story, “A Study in Scarlet,” which appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual
1890 Published the second Holmes novel, The Sign of Four
Birth of first child, Mary Louise Doyle
Published his first historical novel, The White Company
1891 Spring Retired from medical practice to write full time
1892 Published his first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892 Birth of first son, Alleyne Kingsley
1894 Published his second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1894 Visited the United States with his brother, Innes
1896 Published the novel, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
1900–1903 Volunteered his medical services in the Boer War between Britain and South Africa
1901 August 9 Knighted by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace
1902 Published his third Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles
1903 Published the second Brigadier Gerard book, The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
1906 July 4 Death of first wife, Louise Hawkins Doyle
1907 Sept. 18 Married Jean Leckie
1908 Published the third collection of Holmes stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1909 Birth of Denis, first child by Jean Leckie
1910 Birth of third son, Adrian
1912 Birth of fifth child, Lena Jean
Published the The Lost World
1914 Published the last Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear
1917 Published the fourth collection of Holmes stories, His Last Bow
1917 October Death of eldest son, Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle
1918 Published his first book on spiritualism, The New Revelation
1920 August Began a lecture tour in Australia
1924 March Publication of autobiography, Memories and Adventures
1927 Publication of fifth and final collection of Holmes stories, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
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