- 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
A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth
A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth
- Chapter:
- (p.138) Chapter 13 A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth
- Source:
- The Case of Sherlock Holmes
- Author(s):
Andrew Glazzard
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
One of the most problematic characters in any Holmes story is Steve Dixie, the black gangster who bursts into Holmes’s room at the beginning of ‘The Three Gables’. He is a man of contradictions, simultaneously ridiculed and full of menace. His size and apparent physical aggression – ‘his sullen dark eyes’ have ‘a smouldering gleam of malice in them’ (Case-Book, 133) – are in counterpoint to his comic appearance: Watson remarks on his ‘very loud grey check suit with a flowing salmon-coloured tie’ (133). Instructed by his superior to warn Holmes that his life is at threat ‘if he go down Harrow way’ (134), he enters like ‘a mad bull’ and twice threatens Holmes with physical violence: ‘It won’t be so damn fi ne if I have to trim you up a bit’ (133); ‘you’ll get put through it for sure if you give me any lip’ (134).
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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
