“a rough familiarity” [LAST]
According to one Sherlockian scholar, there is material in “The Musgrave Ritual” that is strangely familiar. You may or may not have picked up on it before. We certainly didn’t.
E. Butler Richards, in Vol. 9 of Baker Street Miscellanea, wonders if Watson or Holmes was pulling the wool over our eyes in this entry from an early part of Holmes’s career. Does he succeed in convincing us of his thesis? It’s just a Trifle.
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