The Boscombe Valley Mystery: The Inheritance

[marysutherland.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Title: The Inheritance
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: PG-13


What would the eugenicist say about the pairing that our silence enabled? The son of a blackmailer married to the daughter of a murderer: surely both came from cursed stock. Yet Watson rightly described Miss Taylor as a lovely young woman, and McCarthy junior, though dull of mind, was sound of body. Perhaps their offspring might yet avoid hereditary taint.

Comments

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

An excellent question: can these two, and the children they produce, ever escape the shadow of their sinister parentage? I'd like to hope so, although, as you rightly point out, the Victorian eugenicists would consider it impossible.