“XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.” MysteryPuzzlesHolmesDetectivePasticheCodesRoman NumeralsMary RussellVillans Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice
“The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.” WorldFirstsPersonsHas BeensDifferentWarPeriodsFollowingErasWar Of The WorldsHolmesVictorianDifferent TimesFirst World WarVictorian Era Author:Laurie R. King
“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.” ThinkingMenHumansHumanityPassionRaceAcceptingCareersMachinesBasesDrivenBrilliantObsessionHuman RaceMidstCarelessDeep DownHolmesMindlessInbreds Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.” WorldYearsFirstsPersonsBookWarParticularMetsDefenseNosesFifteenHolmesFifteen YearsFifteen Years Old Book:Night Work Source: Night Work
“Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.” MindDoeStillsStatesLightEyeSidesVoiceInterestAbilityVisionGreaterSeeingObjectsShapesDaughterDistanceDetailsActiveNoiseClaritySmokingPermitPassivePipeViolinRegisterHolmesInattentionLooking Away Author:Laurie R. King
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?” GivingFirstsFoundAirMissingResponseFlatsAbout YourselfAutobiographyPoliteReluctantHolmesGrinningInattention Author:Laurie R. King
“I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.” GivingWould BeFoundDarkCuriosityBoxesVersionsHolmesVelvetWrapping Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice
“But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.” MomentsHalfTeacherWifeHairHusbandBonesNosesMy HusbandClosestDisguiseMasculinePupilsHolmesFaintingTurbans Author:Laurie R. King
“Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache.” IfsThinkingBelieveHardHandsChoicesGivenSituationStepsTakenWifeHairPleaseAngryThreatLipsDearAffectionCellsBelieve In MeHolmesMoustache Author:Laurie R. King
