British Library. The old landmarks were all in their place. There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. There upon a shelf was the row of formidable scrap-books and books of reference which many of our fellow-citizens would have been so glad to burn. The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe rack—even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco—all met my eyes as I glanced round me.
It appears in all four of the novels and most of the fifty-six stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. Joseph Bell. It was respectable but unostentatious, a facade behind which Holmes could lurk discreetly. The gang of street urchins immortalized as the Baker Street Irregulars would not have been welcomed by upper-class neighbors.
It was also conveniently placed for the Great North Road and the London railway terminals. The layout of the lodgings is described in detail in the second chapter of A Study in Scarlet. We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No.
They consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms and a single large airy sitting room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. The rooms are being let out by the discreet and respectable Mrs.
Clues to the contents of both sitting room and bedroom are liberally scattered through the novels and stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote between and , when Holmes did at long last take his last bow. There is a bathroom, unless Watson got Billy the page to bring up a tub in front of his bedroom fire so that he could have the bath he mentions taking in The Sign of the Four The Royal Marines.
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