Villians
This character, often called "The Napoleon of Crime" is Holmes' greatest nemesis.
Who is James Moriarty?
A distraught banker approaches Holmes about this titular icon of power for which he has been loaned 50,000 pounds
What is The Beryl Coronet
This method, also known as being struck by a blunt object repeatedly is what the murderer uses to eliminate his victim in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
What is Bludgeoning?
Holmes is able to deduce that the culprit in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" has this medical disorder due to the fact that one of his footprints is deeper than the other.
What is a limp?
Victor Hatherley, has this part of his body cut off by a knife in a story involving the repair of a Hydraulic Press. In the opposable variety it is also what separates humans and most other animals.
What is the Thumb?
The Beddington Gang are able to trick a naive clerk into taking a sham job before everything is unraveled by a vigilant night watchman in this story
What is "The Stockbroker's Clerk"?
Using the quality of the paper that the letter has been written on, Holmes is able to deduce that the sender is from this titular country where the Egria Papier Gesellschaft hails from.
What is Bohemia?
A savage throat wound is inflicted by this animal in "The Copper Beeches" as well as later becoming eponymous in a novel-length Holmes work.
What is a Hound?
Holmes is able to determine that Watson sees more traffic than the neighboring doctor due to this quality on his staircase brought upon by the amount of people walking on them.
Before one of his titular appendages are severed, Victor Hatherley is almost killed by a Hydraulic Press in this manner that is also what an Apothecary may do to certain medicinal herbs
What is crushing?
A malicious father and son in this story conspire to kill Holmes and escape their property debt. However, they are foiled by poor penmanship, the scourge of criminals across the world.
What is "The Reigate Squires"?
In "The Speckled Band", Grimesby Roylott bends this metal tool, used to tend and warm Victorian homes, which demonstrates his strength before Holmes bends it back with ease
What is a Fire Poker?
In "The Man with the Twisted Lip", Neville St. Clair is assumed to have been killed by this method after being thrown from a window into a river with his pockets weighed down by rocks
What is drowning?
In "The Beryl Coronet", Holmes is able to deduce that the housekeeper was in league with the criminal due to her incessant opening and closing of this household vantage point.
What is a window?
After Hatherley meets Watson, Watson decides to bafflingly treat him by giving him this drink, a clear favorite of Dr. Watson's as he administers it many times throughout the canon.
What is Brandy?
What is "The Crooked Man"?
In this Christmas-set story, Holmes finds a hat with these initials as well as the tag for a Christmas Goose
What is H. B. (Henry Baker)?
In "The Speckled Band", the murderer attempts to send this kind of animal through a grate and then recall it with milk in order to kill a pair of sisters on command.
BONUS POINTS FOR EITHER THE NAME THE ANIMAL IS ATTRIBUTED IN THE STORY OR WHAT W. S. BARING GOULD DECIDES THAT IT MUST BE
What is Snake?
What is the Deadliest Snake in India?
What is a Gila Monster-Snake hybrid?
Holmes is able to deduce that the culprits in "The Reigate Squires" are father and son through the use of this study that is used to determine character traits through handwriting
What is Graphology?
This position was falsely attributed to the man calling himself Lysander Stark in "The Engineers Thumb" and is one rank below Brigadier General in the United States. In the canon, other characters with this title include Sebastian Moran, Barclay, and Ross.
What is a Colonel?
In this story, two notorious criminals posing as Russian noblemen do away with their former associate before sinking on a ship in a disaster eerily reminiscent to "The Five Orange Pips"
What is "The Resident Patient"?
What is a strong-willed-woman?
In "The Crooked Man", Colonel Barclay dies of this condition, which is the abrupt rupture of an internal organ, upon seeing the site of his old rival, Wood, returned from India
What is apoplexy?
In "A Case of Identity", Holmes is able to deduce that Mary Sutherland is a typist due to this kind of stain on her left thumb.
What is Ink?
This technique is the process of making currency not sanctioned by the government and is coincidentally exactly what the Hydraulic Press is used for in "The Engineer's Thumb"
What is Counterfeiting?