TheEmptyHouse

The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

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#TheEmptyHouse

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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Pageturner1 Maybe to do with him having not fully fulfilled his life with joy and the only pleasure he gets are his cases???? 3mo

IndoorDame He talks about wanting to see Watson sitting in his old chair in their old house twice, he‘s clearly been lonely on his travels. Maybe Doyle is implying he missed Sherlock and his readers and wants to put everything back the way it was before? 3mo

dabbe I\'m thinking that his wife Mary has died and rather recently. It\'s been 3 years since Holmes \“died\“, so I don\'t think that\'s the reason for his \“own sad bereavement.\“ 3mo

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CogsOfEncouragement Thank you for pointing this out. I hadn\'t taken the time to consider this. Yes, Watson not only had lost SH, he has recently lost Mary. We don\'t know how or why - we are free to imagine that she died in childbirth and the baby was lost as well. Watson has been left in an empty house. Another reason he would be so quick to forgive SH for only telling Mycroft his secret. SH\'s return puts an end to some part of his immense grief & loneliness. 3mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Excellent point re: the \“empty\“ house. I don\'t know why, but I find it so sad that Mary\'s death is only mentioned so briefly when she was the client in THE SIGN OF FOUR. I like to think that Watson was so grieved that he could only scarcely mention it and leave it to us to understand why. 3mo

CogsOfEncouragement I like that way of thinking too. They were a great couple. Also, it could be implied that there had been an obituary, which would have obviously been how SH knew of it. Watson\'s readers would have read the obit too. They already knew. 3mo

Bookwomble Or, perhaps, Holmes wanted the old team back together without Mary as the spare wheel and... 🤨💭💀🔨🪦🧐 3mo

dabbe @Bookwomble Or the public? They wanted the bros back in 221-B Baker St. sipping their morning tea in front of a roaring fire. 🤩 3mo

Librarybelle I too thought it was an allusion to Mary‘s death, @dabbe . I like your thoughts, @CogsOfEncouragement …I had not gone that far in my thinking, but I think you raise a good point. 3mo

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The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheEmptyHouse

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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IndoorDame I love how he really is the prototype for the genre. Right after I read this story I happened to watch an episode White Collar where they stake out an apartment where their mark has set up a silver vase on top of a Roomba so the shadows would shift and it would look like someone was moving around inside. 3mo

eeclayton I thought of the scene in Home Alone where Kevin uses all kinds of dummies to fool the burglars 😁 3mo

dabbe @IndoorDame Holmes is ahead of his time, isn\'t he? With the fingerprinting, wax heads, knowing everything about tar and ash and footprints ... 3mo

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dabbe @eeclayton What a great tie-in! Someone on that movie had to have known about this story, right? 3mo

CogsOfEncouragement @IndoorDame @eeclayton I love it! 3mo

Librarybelle Definitely Holmes is ahead of his time and super clever. I can just see the readers gasping over the dummy and talking about it until the next story appeared. And great thought, @eeclayton ! 3mo

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheEmptyHouse

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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IndoorDame There are really lots of little mysteries to solve in this story. There are good clues that invite you to play along with the questions surrounding Sherlock‘s disappearance, reappearance, and attempted murder. But the way it‘s written is misleading in that it really invites you to completely forget about the framing mystery with Ronald Adair. 3mo

dabbe @IndoorDame Exactly. So much time is spent on setting up that mystery as a locked-room one, but it wasn\'t at all. It was just an expert-shot-through-the-window by Moran. 3mo

CogsOfEncouragement The only thing I thought maybe I could have picked up on was when Watson notices two men obviously keeping lookout on the street, that those were policemen, not bad guys. IDK, should I have realized that?

@IndoorDame I read this in two sittings, and I thought that was why I totally forgot about Adair lol but like you said it was written that way. 3mo

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Librarybelle Other than figuring the older man Watson bumps into has to be Holmes in disguise, I did not pick up on any clues. I‘m terrible at that! 3mo

dabbe @Librarybelle Lordy, so am I! I just like to follow along and read; I don\'t really even try to solve the mystery--that goes for all of them, Nancy Drew included, of course! 🤩 3mo

Librarybelle @dabbe I‘m always surprised when I guess things! 😂 3mo

dabbe @Librarybelle #dittogirlfriend! 🧡🤎💛 3mo

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The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheEmptyHouse

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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Saknicole 100% Watson forgives so fast. I remember when I first read that reunion scene when I was in high school. So little is said, but it gave me so many feels. I suppose if your BFF fakes his death, the only right way to resolve it is by pretending to be an old man and following you around for a while before the reveal. 3mo

IndoorDame It‘s a really extreme version of their usual dynamic. Watson is definitely too fast to forgive, but I think he always goes with the flow because he‘s dying to hear how Holmes figured it out, or in this case pulled it off. 3mo

dabbe @Saknicole 🎯😂🤩 3mo

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dabbe @IndoorDame His curiosity trumps his hurt feelings. In the Jeremy Brett tv version, Watson does get a little pissed off at first but then relents. 3mo

CogsOfEncouragement @Saknicole @INdoorDame I agree. I was not surprised to read that Watson (after the shock) was only happy to have SH back in his life. W already respected SH so much that I felt he would honor his reasoning for doing so. If SH said he had to do it this way, then it had to be done this way. 3mo

Bookwomble Avoiding Moriarty\'s henchmen was certainly a part of Holmes\'s motive for disappearing for a while, but then the Great Hiatus was surely also a response to his governments call to patriotic duty, as Holmes advanced the Empire\'s cause in many of the hotspots of Imperial intrigue and international commercial competition. \“The name\'s Sigerson...\“ (edited) 3mo

Aimeesue @IndoorDame I agree. And I don‘t think Watson has TIME to be upset - he‘s whisked off on another adventure as soon as Sherlock reappears. 3mo

Librarybelle Agreed, @Aimeesue …Watson is immediately whisked away into the next adventure, and so there‘s not a lot of time to dwell on hurt feelings. 3mo

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheEmptyHouse

Our boy is back! 🤩 Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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eeclayton I enjoyed it. I kind of expected it to be more about the initial case, but it was neat how the two cases were connected. 3mo

IndoorDame I liked it a lot, and I think I would‘ve found it incredibly satisfying as a reader at the time. The wax dummy was pretty creepy, and then when it got shot 😬 But I like the slightly campy action-Sherlock scaling a cliff, and the super sweet Mycroft helping him fake his own death. 3mo

dabbe @eeclayton The initial case certainly grabs your attention, doesn\'t it? And then to segue to Sherlock ... pretty suspenseful all around. 3mo

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dabbe @IndoorDame The only thing that puzzles me, though, is I thought the room at Baker St. was set on fire from Moriarty\'s goons in \“The Final Problem.\“ How could it then have been kept in pristine condition by Mycroft? I\'ll have to go back and see. 3mo

CogsOfEncouragement Poor Mrs. Hudson!!!! I always knew she was underappreciated but this is too much! Much obliged for your assistance?! I would think so. When he said he had rigged it up for her to turn I had imagined something much safer. In one of the retellings I\'ve watched I think they gave her some other background, like a highly trained retired spy or something. This sort of thing would be why I\'m sure. 3mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Yeah, he scares her half to death upon his return, then asks her to crawl around on her hands and knees every 15 minutes to turn the wax head. She is a trooper! 3mo

kelli7990 I liked this story. 3mo

dabbe @kelli7990 🧡🤎💛

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Aimeesue This was a good one! 3mo

dabbe @Aimeesue 🎯! 3mo

Librarybelle This was a great one, and like @IndoorDame I can imagine the readers of the time satisfied with the story and with the return of Holmes. 3mo

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

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#TheEmptyHouse (from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES)

“It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.“

Suet624 Great first line! And so it begins.... 3mo

dabbe @Suet624 🧡🤎💛 3mo

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LitsyEvents

The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents
#TheEmptyHouse
Hi, Sherlockians~
Sorry I'm a bit late with this. Next up: “TAO (The Adventure of) The Empty House“, the first story in THE RETURN OF SH (where SH comes back from the dead!) The link for more information re: the story is below (with a summary--spoiler alert!).
Next discussion will be THIS Saturday on 9/28 and will be led by @dabbe. Have a good week!
Link: https://shorturl.at/U9W6m

dabbe Thanks! 🖤🩶🖤 3mo

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Empty House | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents
#TheEmptyHouse

Hi, Sherlockians~
Sorry I'm a bit late with this. Next up: “TAO (The Adventure of) The Empty House“, the first story in THE RETURN OF SH (where SH comes back from the dead!) The link for more information re: the story is below (with a summary--spoiler alert!). Next discussion will be THIS Saturday on 9/28 and will be led by @dabbe. Have a good week! 🤩
Link: https://shorturl.at/U9W6m

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Librarybelle Thank you! 3mo

AnnCrystal Love that Doyle revived his Sherlock Holmes 🔍🧐📚💝.

Thanks for the tag... unfortunately I must now bail out of this buddy read. Don\'t have all of Doyle\'s works at this time.

📚 Thank you 😉👍💝. 3mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal I\'ll take you off the list. 🧡🍁🧡 3mo

AnnCrystal Thanks @dabbe 😎👍💝. 3mo

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