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Night Watch A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown

Night Watch A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown
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  • ISBN-13: 9780375403675
  • ISBN: 0375403671
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

AUTHOR

Kendrick, Stephen

SUMMARY

One NONE Oxford to Baker Street, 3 p.m. Snow descended on London, swirling in on brisk winds, catching the pale yellow glare of the streetlights as it laid its ghostly white upon our familiar haunts. I stood at our window overlooking deserted Baker Street, marveling on the rare London snow and savoring the strange quiet. Christmas morning had come and gone, and Holmes was clearly relieved the dreaded festival was almost over. We had just this afternoon returned from Oxford, where Holmes had tried, and singularly failed, to hide away in the Bodleian Library, studying the ancient, musty musical manuscripts he so loved. Instead, we had been dragged into the tinseled maw of a perplexing domestic drama in the home of Holmes's old tutor, now master of St. Mark's. Hailing a hansom cab at Euston Station upon our return to London from Oxford, we hastened straight back to our rooms, thoroughly exhausted. After a brief rest, a shave, and a light repast of strong coffee, eggs, and kippers, provided by Mrs. Hudson, we were now sharing a convivial silence on this winter's approaching night. In the inner reflection upon the window glass, I could see Holmes as he placidly sat pasting newspaper crime articles into his vast alphabetized volumes, his lean face partially obscured with pipe smoke. Against the storm, the warmth and light of our apartment seemed a stay against the chaos of city life, whose dirty, coal-smudged tracks, mud, and grime were being sheeted by the innocence of white. From the distance, I heard the faint tinkling of horses' bells as hansoms traversed the oddly muffled streets. "Yes, Watson, indeed the rose is the most beautiful of the flowers."? "Good God, Holmes, you have been playing this trick upon me for a good many years, and still leave me dumbfounded."? I turned to face my old companion. "How in heaven's name could you read this in my manner, for I surely betrayed no sign of such a thought?" He leaned back and sucked in upon his brier-wood pipe, eyeing me merrily. "I have indeed been reading the Book of Watson for some time, the purity of my observations augmented by close familiarity. I saw you set down that book by your chair, page faceup, as you rose, and it opened naturally to a poem most precious to you."? "Yes, Lodge's When I Admire the Rose, but surely? "Ah, follow the mind under suggestion. You passed our mantel, where you set our few Christmas postcards, two of which are adorned with roses blooming in winter, one of the glories of our clime. Then, as you stood at the window you absently placed your hands in your pockets, and as you did I could see, reflected in the glass, a look of melancholy cross your face. You were, I believe, touching the rosary that you carry in your pocket, given to you by your late wife, Mary.? He paused. oeI believe that was the trail of your thoughts. It seemed natural to bring these mental fragments together, the term rosary coming from the rose garden,"? said Holmes, setting aside his glue pot and heavy book. He went to the mantel to poke at his pipe, adding a little shag tobacco. I sat down in my chair across from him. "Yes, Holmes, that was precisely the gathering of my emotions. You know I am not a religious man; I carry her rosary not out of any feeling of faith but because she held it once."? "A twelfth-century Persian poet said, Mystery glows in the rose bed, the secret is hidden in the rose. ? He leaned back in his old velvet chair dreamily, his eyes half closed, as if he were listening to a piece of favoriteKendrick, Stephen is the author of 'Night Watch A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown' with ISBN 9780375403675 and ISBN 0375403671.

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