3. What do the killers in The Speckled Band, The Lion’s Mane and Silver Blaze all have in common?
4. What was Mary Watson’s maiden name?
5. What links The Greek Interpreter, The Final Problem, The Empty House and The Bruce-Partington Plans?
6. Why is The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone unique?
7. Napoleons plus students plus gables plus orange pips equals what?
8. What relevance does the answer to Question Seven have to 221B Baker Street?
9. Who was ‘the second most dangerous man in London’?
10. Name the odd one out: Inspector Lestrade, Wiggins, Dr Watson, Mrs Hudson.
Answers
1. Professor Moriarty.
2. He was an engineer. He lost his thumb. (The Engineer’s Thumb)
3. They were all animals.
4. Mary Morstan.
5. Stories in which Mycroft Holmes appears or gets a mention.
6. It’s the only Holmes story told in the third person.
7. 17. (The Six Napoleons, The Three Students, The Three Gables, The Five Orange Pips).
8. There were seventeen steps to Holmes’s rooms.
9. Colonel Sebastian Moran (The Empty House).
10. Dr John Watson. The others have no Christian names.
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