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1、Formyoldfriend,JeffreyS.JosephContentsCoverDedicationTitlePageAcknowledgementsPrefaceOne:TheWimbledonArtDealerTwo:TheFlatCapGangThree:AtRidgewayHallFour:TheUnofficialPoliceForceFive:LestradeTakesChargeSix:ChorleyGrangeSchoolforBoysSeven:TheWhiteRibbonE
2、ight:ARavenandTwoKeysNine:TheWarningTen:BluegateFieldsEleven:UnderArrestTwelve:TheEvidenceintheCaseThirteen:PoisonFourteen:IntotheDarkFifteen:HollowayPrisonSixteen:TheDisappearanceSeventeen:AMessageEighteen:TheFortune-TellerNineteen:TheHouseofSilkTwent
3、y:KeelanO’DonaghueAfterwordAnthonyHorowitzonWritingTheHouseofSilk:Conception,InspirationandTheTenRulesTenFiendishlyDifficultQuestionsaboutSherlockHolmesAnswersCopyrightAcknowledgementsMythankstoLeeJacksonwhogreatlyhelpedwiththeresearchforthisbook.Hisex
4、cellentwebsite,www.victorianlondon.org,isabrilliant(andfree)resourceforanyoneinterestedintheperiod.TwobooksthatIfoundparticularlyusefulwereLondoninthe19thCenturybyJerryWhiteandLifeinVictorianBritainbyMichaelPatersonalthoughIalsoborrowedliberallyfromcon
5、temporaryauthorsincludingGeorgeGissing,CharlesDickens,AnthonyTrollope,ArthurMorrisonandHenryMayhew.ThanksalsototheSherlockHolmesSocietywhohave(sofar)beengenialandsupportiveandinparticulartooneoftheirnumber,DrMarinaStajic,whokindlysharedherknowledgeoffo
6、rensictoxologywithmeattheHouseofCommons.Myagent,‘agentoftheyear’,RobertKirbyfirstsuggestedthisbook–andatOrion,MalcolmEdwardshasbeenincrediblypatient,waitingeightyearsformetowriteit.Finally,aboveall,ImustacknowledgethegeniusofSirArthurConanDoylewhomIfir
7、stencounteredwhenIwassixteenandwhoseextraordinarycreationhasinspiredsomuchofmyownwork.WritingthisbookhasbeenajoyandmyonehopeisthatIwillhavedonesomejusticetotheoriginal.12,13,14ASHPrefaceIhaveoftenreflecteduponthestrangeseriesofcircumstancesthatledmetom
8、ylongassociationwithoneofthemostsingularandremarkablefiguresofmyage.IfIwereofaphilosophicalframeofmindImightwondertowhatextentanyoneofusisincontrolofourowndestiny,orifindeedwecaneverpredictthefar-reachingconsequencesofactionswhich,atthe
