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Welcome back to Sherlock Holmes week. It does look like I will got carried away and it will become 10 days of Holmes and compliance as I am rereading the first volume of Holmes, The Adventures of ...

"The question is the sequence of events leading from the jewel-case at one end, to the stomach of a goose at the other." Sherlock Holmes is speaking to Dr. Watson as they begin an investigation that ...

What is a carbuncle, you might ask? Turns out, it is an old term for a red gemstone. Hmmmm. How does one explain the color of the one in "Sherlock Holmes' Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," being ...

The story begins on Boxing Day, when Holmes receives a peculiar old hat from Peterson, the commissionaire. The hat was found next to a Christmas goose, abandoned after its owner had a skirmish with ...

The Blue Carbuncle is by no means a bad story in fact, it's largely considered a classic among Sherlock Holmes elitists. But while it works wonderfully within the confines of the formulaic Doyle canon ...