I don't wish to argue with your new book :P But surely that doesn't quite make sense? In EMPT, Ronald Adair dies 30th March 1894 and Holmes doesn't make contact with Watson until after the inquest. So by the time Holmes and Watson were back together in 221B and solving cases again, Gladstone would not have been Prime Minister and wouldn't have been coming to them for help.
Is the book suggesting Watson had got his dates wrong? Also, I've just been looking up Gladstone and I hadn't realised he'd been Prime Minister 4 times. Why does the article opt for Gladstone visiting in 1894 rather than the earlier part of Holmes' career from 1881-1886? Is it to do with when the sensitive document was likely to have been written?
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Date: 2015-11-02 12:24 pm (UTC)Is the book suggesting Watson had got his dates wrong? Also, I've just been looking up Gladstone and I hadn't realised he'd been Prime Minister 4 times. Why does the article opt for Gladstone visiting in 1894 rather than the earlier part of Holmes' career from 1881-1886? Is it to do with when the sensitive document was likely to have been written?