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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Great title and useful Holmes/Watson timeline. Very hard to recreate 1890s mindset - I'm doubtful over "smog", coined by a public health official in 1905. Just looking at some of it out the windows of Delhi airport at this moment...

Jon Sparks's avatar

Thanks. Fair comment (but I can always say any such errors are the fault of the compilers).

Are you on Delhi heading further or heading home?

Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Homeward from failed attempt at Manaslu Circuit. Continuity errors can be considered as simply “authentic” ACD who didn't even manage consistency over Watson's first name and injury….

Jon Sparks's avatar

Clearly ACD wasn’t OCD enough.

The injury question gets a good airing in the story.

Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Apparently the bullet hole is actually in JHW’s buttock, hence for the benefit of lady readers he transferred it to his shoulder on first mention. There is also a well devised explanation for why his wife addresses him as James rather than John: his middle name is of course H for Hamish, which is the Gaelic version of James.