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** In "The Veiled Lodger", the titular lodger and her lover plotted to dispose of her husband, the owner of a circus, by bashing his head in and then releasing the trained lion to make it appear that it had done the deed. However, when they released the lion it was driven into a frenzy by the smell of the husband's blood and ripped off the wife's face (hence why she wears the veil).
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* MutuallyUnequalRelationship: In "The Musgrave Ritual", Holmes theorizes that this is what happened to the butler, who was found dead in an underground vault. Brunton had a history as TheCasanova, and had previously been affiliated with a maid named Howells, but soon took up with another girl. Howells was seen acting strangely on the day Brunton was reported missing, and disappeared herself soon afterwards. Holmes believes Brunton thought Howells was still devoted to him, got her help to enter the vault, and only when she realized her chance for revenge (it's implied he got her pregnant) was right there did she slam the door on him.
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* MutuallyUnequalRelationship: MutuallyUnequalRelation: In "The Musgrave Ritual", Holmes theorizes that this is what happened to the butler, who was found dead in an underground vault. Brunton had a history as TheCasanova, and had previously been affiliated with a maid named Howells, but soon took up with another girl. Howells was seen acting strangely on the day Brunton was reported missing, and disappeared herself soon afterwards. Holmes believes Brunton thought Howells was still devoted to him, got her help to enter the vault, and only when she realized her chance for revenge (it's implied he got her pregnant) was right there did she slam the door on him.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In "The Lion's Mane", a man dies horribly on the day he was planning to elope with his fiancée. One of the suspects is a friend of the victim's who was in love with the same woman and is assumed to harbor some ill feeling toward his rival. After he is cleared, he explains that, once he was sure she would be happier with his friend he was content to stand aside, and even helped them arrange the elopement.
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** In "The Lion's Mane", a man dies horribly on the day he was planning to elope with his fiancée. One of the suspects is a friend of the victim's who was in love with the same woman and is assumed to harbor some ill feeling toward his rival. After he is cleared, he explains that, once he was sure she would be happier with his friend he was content to stand aside, and even helped them arrange theelopement.elopement.
** In "The Abbey Grange", Captain Croker was initially pleased to hear that his love Mary Fraser had apparently found someone she loved and hadn't thrown herself away on a penniless sailor like him. That lasted until a chance meeting with her maid where he learned that the marriage had wound up on the rocks.
** In "The Lion's Mane", a man dies horribly on the day he was planning to elope with his fiancée. One of the suspects is a friend of the victim's who was in love with the same woman and is assumed to harbor some ill feeling toward his rival. After he is cleared, he explains that, once he was sure she would be happier with his friend he was content to stand aside, and even helped them arrange the
** In "The Abbey Grange", Captain Croker was initially pleased to hear that his love Mary Fraser had apparently found someone she loved and hadn't thrown herself away on a penniless sailor like him. That lasted until a chance meeting with her maid where he learned that the marriage had wound up on the rocks.
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* InsistentTerminology: ''Private Consulting'' Detective.
* InterpretativeCharacter: All the characters are this when it comes to adaptations, most noticeably Holmes and Watson. At the end of the day, the stories are about a highly intelligent recluse and a more emotional doctor solving crimes, leaving plenty of room for interpretation when it comes to [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange personality]], [[GenderFlip gender]] and [[RaceLift race]].
* InterpretativeCharacter: All the characters are this when it comes to adaptations, most noticeably Holmes and Watson. At the end of the day, the stories are about a highly intelligent recluse and a more emotional doctor solving crimes, leaving plenty of room for interpretation when it comes to [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange personality]], [[GenderFlip gender]] and [[RaceLift race]].
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* InsistentTerminology: ''Private Consulting'' Detective.
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** "The Reigate Squire", where thieves broke in a rich landowner's home and made off with "an odd volume of Pope's Homer, two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a ball of twine]]". [[spoiler:They actually have nothing to do with the real crime, the burglars were looking for certain legal papers and grabbed random stuff off the desk to make it look like a break-in.]]
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** "The Reigate Squire", where thieves broke in a rich landowner's home and made off with "an odd volume of Pope's Homer, two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a ball of twine]]".twine". [[spoiler:They actually have nothing to do with the real crime, the burglars were looking for certain legal papers and grabbed random stuff off the desk to make it look like a break-in.]]
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* IRegretNothing: Captain Croker in "The Abbey Grange" declares he has no regrets about killing Sir Eustace Brackenstall, has no fear for himself (his fear is for Sir Eustace's wife whom Croker loves), and would do it all again and be proud of it.
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: In "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual", Musgrave fires his butler for sneaking around and looking around in the family's papers. To his surprise, it's nothing of any value, only the questions and answers that make up the title ritual. The butler disappears a few days later, having figured out that the ritual in fact showed the location of historical treasures
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* NoRomanticResolution: Watson, with some disappointment, notes that Holmes takes no further interest in Miss Violet Hunter once she is no longer his client, at the end of "The Copper Beeches."
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* HollywoodBeautyStandards: there are very few women mentioned, and even fewer who are young and/or middle class or above, whom Watson does not describe as among the most beautiful he has ever seen.
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** "I'll chance it,” he cried, “I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I’ll tell you the whole story." — "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (He doesn't mean that he trusts Holmes because of his race—after all, he can see that, not just "believe" it. Instead, he's using an old-fashioned meaning of "white" as "honest, fair-dealing." Of course, it's not without racial connotations—that sense has fallen out of use for a reason—it's just not the speaker's literal meaning.)
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** "I'll chance it,” he cried, “I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I’ll tell you the whole story." — "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (He doesn't mean that he trusts Holmes because of his race—after all, he can see that, not just "believe" it.wouldn't say that he "believes" Holmes is white in that sense. Instead, he's using an old-fashioned meaning of "white" as "honest, fair-dealing." Of course, it's not without racial connotations—that sense has fallen out of use for a reason—it's just not the speaker's literal meaning.)
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** "I'll chance it,” he cried, “I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I’ll tell you the whole story." — "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (He doesn't mean that he trusts Holmes because of his race—after all, he can see that, not just "believe" it. Instead, he's using an old-fashioned meaning of "white" as "honest, fair-dealing." Of course, it's not without racial connotations—that sense has fallen out of use for a reason—it's just not the speaker's literal meaning.)
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", features a [[CounterfeitCash counterfeiter]] gang which doesn't include a repairman for their heavy equipment, so once a year or so, they are forced to bring in a disposable one.
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** "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", features a [[CounterfeitCash counterfeiter]] gang which doesn't include a repairman for their heavy equipment, so once a year or so, they are forced to bring in a disposableone.one.
** "The Greek Interpreter," [[RecycledScript analogously]], features kidnappers who require the titular interpreter in order to communicate with their victim. They try to get rid of him when they realize that, despite their precautions and threats, he knows too much and has called Holmes in.
** "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", features a [[CounterfeitCash counterfeiter]] gang which doesn't include a repairman for their heavy equipment, so once a year or so, they are forced to bring in a disposable
** "The Greek Interpreter," [[RecycledScript analogously]], features kidnappers who require the titular interpreter in order to communicate with their victim. They try to get rid of him when they realize that, despite their precautions and threats, he knows too much and has called Holmes in.
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** "I do not think that in our adventures we have ever come across a stranger example of what perverted love can bring about." - "The Adventure of Thor Bridge" ("Perverted" here doesn't mean sexually deviant, but psychologically warped and unhealthy; [[spoiler:the dead woman, out of jealousy, killed herself in such a way as to frame her rival.]])
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** "Ferguson was evidently devoted to [his baby son], for he took it into his arms and fondled it most tenderly." — "The Sussex Vampire" (At this time, "fondle" simply meant stroke or cuddle, and didn't have today's connotation of inappropriate touching.)
