The Bruce-Partington Plans.
The case begins Thursday, November 21, 1895.
Why?
THE EXPLANATION OF THE DATE:
"In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby — the music of the Middle Ages. But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes . . ."
"In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby — the music of the Middle Ages. But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes . . ."
THE DAYS OF WEST’S LIFE AND DEATH:
"Cadogan West was the young man who was found dead on the Underground on Tuesday morning."
"He left Woolwich suddenly on Monday night."
"Cadogan West was the young man who was found dead on the Underground on Tuesday morning."
"He left Woolwich suddenly on Monday night."
REITERATION OF THE MONTH:
"All the long November evening I waited, filled with impatience for his return."
"All the long November evening I waited, filled with impatience for his return."
WHAT THE BARING-GOULD ANNOTATED SAYS:
November 21, 1895.
November 21, 1895.
WHAT ZEISLER, THE KING OF CHRONOLOGY, SAYS:
November 21, 1895.
November 21, 1895.
THE BIRLSTONE RAILWAY TIMETABLE:
Occasionally Watson likes to give us poor chronologists a break, and "Bruce-Partington Plans" is just such an occasion.
Occasionally Watson likes to give us poor chronologists a break, and "Bruce-Partington Plans" is just such an occasion.
November of 1895 starts on a Friday, so the Thursday falling in the third week of that month is indisputably Thursday, November 21, 1895. Were all Watson’s records like this, Sherlockian chronologers would be out of a job.
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