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spacemutineer this week. However, she left plenty of great discussion points to play with when thinking about this week's story, The Stockbroker's Clerk:
- Watson singed his slippers trying to warm his feet by the fire? Perhaps you're getting your toes a little too close to the flames there, eh, Doctor? Yikes!
- Watson on his surgery business: "I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy, and was convinced that in a very few years the concern would be as flourishing as ever." Did he ever make it flourish as he was convinced, or was he too distracted tagging along with Holmes to crime scenes?
- Did you notice Holmes clearly had no doubt he could entice Watson into accompanying him? He brings his client along to the meeting and barely leaves enough time for the three of them to catch their train. I suppose he knows his Watson well enough by now to know he's not going to turn down a good, strange case.
- Were you surprised Holmes has to be told by Pinner that it was the newspaper that had driven him to suicide? He was reading the paper, looking distraught when they walked in. Sherlock Holmes usually picks up on things like that. He divined the nature of the scam, but he missed the only truly obvious point: why Pinner tried to hang himself. Odd.
- If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The Stockbroker's Clerk is another case where a criminal goes to a businessman and proposes an unlikely and preposterous job for an obscene profit. See also: The Norwood Builder, The Red-Headed League, The Engineer's Thumb.
- A real writing question: Okay, seriously? Are you kidding? Hall Pycroft? ACD has a recurring issue with reusing names. Over the course of these stories, we've encountered a bouquet full of Violets, and conspicuously several too many Jameses. Sebastian Moran does not live at Stoke Moran. The list goes on. But Pycroft and then later Mycroft? That is silly indeed. Neither is a terribly realistic name, but together they are ridiculous.
spacemutineer this week. However, she left plenty of great discussion points to play with when thinking about this week's story, The Stockbroker's Clerk:- Watson singed his slippers trying to warm his feet by the fire? Perhaps you're getting your toes a little too close to the flames there, eh, Doctor? Yikes!
- Watson on his surgery business: "I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy, and was convinced that in a very few years the concern would be as flourishing as ever." Did he ever make it flourish as he was convinced, or was he too distracted tagging along with Holmes to crime scenes?
- Did you notice Holmes clearly had no doubt he could entice Watson into accompanying him? He brings his client along to the meeting and barely leaves enough time for the three of them to catch their train. I suppose he knows his Watson well enough by now to know he's not going to turn down a good, strange case.
- Were you surprised Holmes has to be told by Pinner that it was the newspaper that had driven him to suicide? He was reading the paper, looking distraught when they walked in. Sherlock Holmes usually picks up on things like that. He divined the nature of the scam, but he missed the only truly obvious point: why Pinner tried to hang himself. Odd.
- If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The Stockbroker's Clerk is another case where a criminal goes to a businessman and proposes an unlikely and preposterous job for an obscene profit. See also: The Norwood Builder, The Red-Headed League, The Engineer's Thumb.
- A real writing question: Okay, seriously? Are you kidding? Hall Pycroft? ACD has a recurring issue with reusing names. Over the course of these stories, we've encountered a bouquet full of Violets, and conspicuously several too many Jameses. Sebastian Moran does not live at Stoke Moran. The list goes on. But Pycroft and then later Mycroft? That is silly indeed. Neither is a terribly realistic name, but together they are ridiculous.
