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//A classic detective story, the Chinese tribulations of Sherlock Holmes.// | //A classic detective story, the Chinese tribulations of Sherlock Holmes.// | ||
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Edward Oxford is a name that's stuck to the lore of England ever since his showy attempt at the regicide of Queen Victoria in the year 1840, soon after the young queen' | Edward Oxford is a name that's stuck to the lore of England ever since his showy attempt at the regicide of Queen Victoria in the year 1840, soon after the young queen' | ||
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When Oxford, a long-recognized model inmate, escapes from the Bethlem sanitarium and disappears in the labyrinthine bowels of the London East End, the matter quickly becomes politically sensitive: it is well-known that the long-reigning queen has never accepted the new-fangled notion of criminal insanity, while the increasingly venerable Oxford has long had a reputation as a model patient, despite the nonspoken understanding that he would never again walk the streets of London as a free man. The situation is further complicated by the uncertainty of Scotland Yard on whether Bethlem was aided in his seemingly pointless escape by outside forces. | When Oxford, a long-recognized model inmate, escapes from the Bethlem sanitarium and disappears in the labyrinthine bowels of the London East End, the matter quickly becomes politically sensitive: it is well-known that the long-reigning queen has never accepted the new-fangled notion of criminal insanity, while the increasingly venerable Oxford has long had a reputation as a model patient, despite the nonspoken understanding that he would never again walk the streets of London as a free man. The situation is further complicated by the uncertainty of Scotland Yard on whether Bethlem was aided in his seemingly pointless escape by outside forces. | ||
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- | {{ : | + | Through the latter half of the 19th century London has become the greatest and most cosmopolitan city in the world. Already at this time the heart of the city resided in Westminster, |
The case of the Bethlem escapee seems like routine at first, the kind of case that Sherlock Holmes accepts only reluctantly, | The case of the Bethlem escapee seems like routine at first, the kind of case that Sherlock Holmes accepts only reluctantly, | ||
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===== Sherlock Holmes, master detective ===== | ===== Sherlock Holmes, master detective ===== | ||
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Those in the know recognize Sherlock Holmes as an exceptional genius who has bent all of his considerable mental faculties to the service of criminal investigation. The man is a strange polymath, barely functional in terms of social graces, yet capable of most minute observations and far-fetched deductions that border on witchcraft. Little passes unnoticed by the master detective, and every observation, | Those in the know recognize Sherlock Holmes as an exceptional genius who has bent all of his considerable mental faculties to the service of criminal investigation. The man is a strange polymath, barely functional in terms of social graces, yet capable of most minute observations and far-fetched deductions that border on witchcraft. Little passes unnoticed by the master detective, and every observation, |
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