The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Whitechapel Horrors - Plot & Excerpts
I rather fancy that Shinwell Johnson might be a help.” — The Illustrious Client If there were any merit, any scientific basis in fact to the theory that the use of tobacco somehow stimulated the brain and thus increased man’s capacity to solve difficult problems, Holmes during those few days should have been able to unravel the mysteries of the universe. He spent the greater part of his time enveloped in dense, odoriferous clouds of smoke, seldom moving from his chair and seldom removing the pipe from his mouth. It was to little avail. Though several ounces of his favorite black shag had been expended, and the sitting room’s atmosphere made no sweeter in the process, he came no closer to finding answers to the questions that plagued him. If anything, the questions multiplied in his mind and became more perplexing. Watson? He was at a total loss. He did not have the faintest idea of what to make of recent events. It was beyond him. Holmes’s bewildering statement that James K. Stephen was not the Ripper had set his mind on endless trails of speculation, trails that twisted and tangled and got him nowhere, leading him ever deeper into thickets of confusion.
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