The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse (The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes Book 1) (22 page)

[123]
Holmes’ once dined at this garish Italian restaurant on Gloucester Road while planning to burgle the residence of Hugo Oberstein (
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
). The fact that Holmes speaks Italian (as demonstrated in
The Adventure of the Red Circle
) must have been helpful in this search.

[124]
Lestrade appears to be much more concerned with catching the killer of a fellow Inspector than with recovering the Museum’s missing items, the location of which is still unclear.

[125]
  Holmes is paraphrasing himself (from
A Case of Identity
), which is itself a paraphrase of
Hamlet
, Act I, Scene 2.

[126]
Mark Twain: ‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t’ (from
Following the Equator
, 1897). It was also attributed to Lord Byron in his
Don Juan
.

[127]
Holmes is referring to the events recorded in Chapter I of
The Valley of Fear
.

[128]
Watson has mentioned ‘the repulsive story of the red leech’ before (
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
) but has never given any details other than this tantalizing tidbit.

[129]
The title of this Appendix is taken from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1930 book on spiritualism,
The Edge of the Unknown
.

[130]
From
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.

[131]
The Hound of the Baskervilles
, of course.

[132]
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
.

[133]
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
.

[134]
The Adventure of the Creeping Man.

[135]
Alluded to in
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
.

[136]
Alluded to in
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.

[137]
Alluded to in
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.

[138]
Alluded to in
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.

[139]
From
The Problem of Thor Bridge.

[140]
From Chapter II,
The Edge of the Unknown.