The Collected Papers of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 4 by David Marcum

Author:David Marcum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: authentic adventures, Canonical, short story collection, traditional stories, Sherlockian, pastiche, Victorian London, murder, Nicholas Meyer, Ferris Wheel, poison, ghost, theatre, theft, Moriarty, Fenian, Sunderland, disguise, curse, tobacco, ergot poisoning, lysergic acid, defraud, electrical experiments, fault line, Edgar Allan Poe, piano, trap, miracles, skull
ISBN: 9781787059139
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2022-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

The Brook Street Mystery

Chapter I

The rains of the previous night had left London washed and clean. The sky was a bright blue that morning as Holmes and I stepped out of 7B Praed Street, our business there successfully concluded. We had visited to hear details related to the death of Captain Brensham, which had a tangential connection to one of Holmes’s own cases. We were just pulling the door shut behind us when a stout fellow stepped our way and seemed to recognize us.

“Mr. Holmes? Dr. Watson? As I live and breathe! I was just about to knock at this very door with a problem, but I’d much rather tell you about it. How fortuitous! You, sir, are the very man that I would have sought, but I understood that you had long since retired and no longer lived in London.”

Holmes nodded. “Sir Percy. How do you do?” He turned to me. “Watson, you recall our old acquaintance, Dr. Trevelyan.” I did indeed, although I barely recognized him in the figure before us. Holmes added, “Pray, let us not hinder you. I am, as you indicated, retired, but my Illustrious Successor inside will be completely satisfactory, I’m sure.” And with that, he touched the brim of his fore-and-aft cap, worn city or country, warm weather or cold, and made as if to step around the fellow.

Sir Percy Trevelyan, however, was having none of it. He raised a hand. “Please, Mr. Holmes. I have a bit of a problem, and I believe that you are the very man who can help me, particularly with the insight you gained related to the events in Brook Street so long ago. Might I have a few moments of your time to explain the details?”

My friend’s mouth tightened slightly in irritation, but I’m not sure that someone who hadn’t known him for so long would have been able to spot it. Holmes relented, stating, “Very well. Let us adjourn to the pub up the street.”

Sir Percy seemed as if he might object, possibly wishing to suggest a place of a bit better station, but he apparently realized that if he created extra difficulties, Holmes would slip off his line and be away.

We walked west for several blocks in silence, giving me a chance to observe Sir Percy in greater detail. I have to confess that when Holmes identified him, I was a bit nonplussed, as this man was quite different from the young doctor that I recalled, more than half-a-lifetime ago. He had gained considerable weight since that day nearly forty years before when he had visited our Baker Street rooms, enlisting our aid in the matter of his resident patient, Mr. Blessington. At the time, he was a thin, pale fellow in his mid-thirties, with a vaguely rodent-like face. He had been rather nervous and withdrawn then, but understandably so, and I had put it down to the situation in which he had found himself – namely, acting as a harried physician to the

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