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Into 2026. The iron chest has been recovered, and Dr. Watson goes to Miss Morstan's to give her the treasure. Quite a chase down the Thames. How about the dwarf, Tonga, who's shot by Holmes and Watson (110)? "[I]n the dark ooze at the bottom of the Thames lie the bones of that strange visitor..." (111). Mrs. Woolf, a dwarf? Not really, but "ooze" is strange? Was she shot, went overboard, not into Ouse but the Thames?
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Sita Petropoulos
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There is time before the year ends, so I'm re-reading what I had since last year. Details that were foggy are clearer, but Bartholomew's expression when he died is most memorable. Holmes says at one point, they're on a bridge from where the Thames can be seen (24). Is this significant (because I sketched one in the margin)? If it wasn't the Ouse? Not if Woolf was...? (My edition is red, has a T. S. Eliot quote.)
— Dec 11, 2025 03:31PM
Sita Petropoulos
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Haven't gotten back to this as yet. Too rigid? Maybe the grin on Bartholomew's countenance is haunting: but who did it remains in question, doesn't it? Shall we read a little more, after all, there is time?
— Mar 04, 2025 03:23PM
Sita Petropoulos
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The next thing I know: I'm on to Pearl S. Buck's, "The Good Earth"? Because of the pearls? And whatever else there might be to know of significance. I wouldn't want to rush for a reason I don't know. However, Doyle's is more detective story than mystery, which is why I find it rigid. Hard to keep up with Holmes' reasoning; he's often ahead, and backtracks for Dr. Watson. Small's accomplice is one of the other 3 men?
— Feb 24, 2025 03:56PM
Sita Petropoulos
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The sign? Four hieroglyphic-like touching crosses, that correspond to four men: Small, Singh, Khan and Akbar. And? ++++? They must want the Agra treasure, if the "sign of the four" is on the paper found on Sholto's body? Eerie.
— Feb 20, 2025 02:49PM
Sita Petropoulos
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I haven't read any of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Is it obvious? Starts strange? And according to Holmes, to be a detective one needs: powers of observation, deduction, and knowledge. Only on p. 8, but it reads differently from the contemporary mysteries I've read - a rigidity. However, his are classics! What is the "sign" of "IV," exactly? I construed it to the "fourth estate," though that isn't what it is?
— Feb 18, 2025 03:33PM
