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Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
First Published: 1890
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
Time of Work: 1888
Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
Subjects: Crime or criminals, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Detectives, Mysteries, London, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Private investigators, Intellect, Collecting or collectors, Puzzles
Locales: London, England, Thames River, England

*Baker Street. London street on which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson share upstairs (“first floor” in British terminology) lodgings at the fictional address of 221B. Their landlady, Mrs. Hudson, lives on the ground floor and provides meals and services for her lodgers, including answering the door and showing visitors up to Watson and Holmes’s flat. A large, airy room, cheerfully furnished and illuminated by two broad windows looking down into the street, their sitting room is the place where most of Holmes’s cases begin and where Holmes later...

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