- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and References
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Stone into Money -
Chapter 2 The Roylotts of Stoke Moran -
Chapter 3 The Guardians of Securities -
Chapter 4 The Pick of a Bad Lot -
Chapter 5 The Fall of the House of Musgrave -
Chapter 6 A Scandal in East Yorkshire -
Chapter 7 Singular Occurrence at a Wedding -
Chapter 8 The Rock of Gibraltar -
Chapter 9 The Discreetly Shadowed Corners -
Chapter 10 The Worst Man in London -
Chapter 11 The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge -
Chapter 12 Nice, Amiable People! -
Chapter 13 A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth -
Chapter 14 The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood -
Chapter 15 This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear -
Chapter 16 Do We Progress? -
Chapter 17 The East Wind -
Chapter 18 That Secret History of a Nation -
Chapter 19 Oaths and Secrets -
Chapter 20 The Giant Rat of Sumatra - Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
The Pick of a Bad Lot
The Pick of a Bad Lot
- Chapter:
- (p.39) Chapter 4 The Pick of a Bad Lot
- Source:
- The Case of Sherlock Holmes
- Author(s):
Andrew Glazzard
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
A week or so after moving into 221B Baker Street, Watson observes that his fellow lodger Sherlock Holmes receives visits from ‘many acquaintances, and those in the most different classes of society’. Among these visitors, Watson is introduced to a ‘little sallow, ratfaced, dark-eyed fellow . . . who came three or four times in a single week’ (Study, 17). This is a Mr Lestrade, whom Holmes later reveals to be ‘a well-known detective’ who ‘got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case’ (20). Lestrade would go on to appear, or at least be mentioned, in a further twelve stories, making him the most frequently trans-textual character in the saga apart from Holmes and Watson themselves, and possibly Holmes’s landlady Mrs Hudson.
Keywords: Class, Sherlock Holmes, Watson, Baker Street, Lestrade, Police, Doyle
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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and References
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Stone into Money -
Chapter 2 The Roylotts of Stoke Moran -
Chapter 3 The Guardians of Securities -
Chapter 4 The Pick of a Bad Lot -
Chapter 5 The Fall of the House of Musgrave -
Chapter 6 A Scandal in East Yorkshire -
Chapter 7 Singular Occurrence at a Wedding -
Chapter 8 The Rock of Gibraltar -
Chapter 9 The Discreetly Shadowed Corners -
Chapter 10 The Worst Man in London -
Chapter 11 The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge -
Chapter 12 Nice, Amiable People! -
Chapter 13 A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth -
Chapter 14 The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood -
Chapter 15 This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear -
Chapter 16 Do We Progress? -
Chapter 17 The East Wind -
Chapter 18 That Secret History of a Nation -
Chapter 19 Oaths and Secrets -
Chapter 20 The Giant Rat of Sumatra - Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
