Sherlock Holmes

The Note That Broke a Father

Error 3, The Method Was Right and He Did Not Know Where to Use It

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A young man lies on a couch while another, pipe in mouth, sits on a chair pulled up beside him.
Illustration by Sidney Paget, The Strand Magazine, April 1893Original

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On a winter night the two of them sit on either side of the fire.

Holmes takes a little tarnished cylinder from a drawer, undoes the tape, and hands over a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.

The supply of game for London is going steadily up, it says, and head-keeper Hudson has been told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant’s life.

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