May 5th 1900: Sir Charles Baskerville died. (HOUN) Dr. Mortimer comments in answer to Holmes’s questions is probably the most remembered actually said phrase in the tales.
May 5th 1902: John Mason found a mummy that was dug up from the crypt. (SHOS)
On May 4th…
May 4th 1847: John Ferrier and his daughter, Lucy, where rescued by the Mormons. (STUD)
May 4th 1882: Ad asking for Mary Morstan’s address appeared in the Times (SIGN)
On May 3rd…
May 3rd 1891: Holmes and Watson arrived in Meiringen. (FINA)
On May 2nd…
May 2nd 1883: Elias Openshaw drowned in his own garden (FIVE)
On May 1st…
May 1st 1847: Lucy Ferrier’s Mother died (STUD)
May 1st 1900: Lord Saltire enrolled in the Priory School (PRIO)
On April 29th…
April 29th 1887: Sir Robert Norberton gave away his sister’s pet spaniel. (SHOS)
On April 28th…
April 28th 1887: Lady Beatrice Fowler dies at Shoscombe Old Place. (SHOS)
April 28th 1893: Holmes and Watson arrive in Geneva. (FINA)
On April 27th…
April 27th 1887
Holmes and Watson arrived in Strasbourg. (FINA)
Holmes learns that Moriarty escaped arrest in London.
On April 26th…
April 26th 1887
Holmes found a note fragment in Alec Cunningham’s dressing gown. (REIG)
Inspector Forrester arrested the two Cunninghams for the murder of William Kirwan.
On April 25th…
April 25th 1887: William Kerwin was murdered by Alec Cunningham. (REIG)
April 25th 1891: Holmes and Watson left for the Continent and arrived in Brussels. (FINA)
On April 24th…
April 24th 1891: Holmes was attacked by Moriarty’s ruffians. (FINA)
On April 22nd…
April 22nd 1890: Carlo the Staff attacks Jethro Rucastle. (COPP)
On April 21st…
April 21st 1890: Violet Hunter enters the forbidden Room. (COPP)
On April 20th…
April 20th 1890 Carlo the Mastiff was last fed. (COPP)
On April 19th…
April 19th 1888
Holmes, Watson and Athelney Jones chase the Launch Aurora down the Thames (SIGN)
Tonga was shot by Holmes or Watson, or both.
Watson finds the true treasure of the tale, his beloved Mary.
An ode added by Chips in honor of beloved Mary:
Limerick to Sign of the Four
by Isaac Asimov, BSI and Sherlockian extraordinaire
Muttered Sherlock, “Never mind Cocaine’s pleasure,
Let us seek the famed Agra Treasure.”
Answered Watson, “No pearls,
for myself only girls,
And its Mary that’s made to my measure.”
On April 18th…
April 18th 1888
The Baker Street Irregulars started their search for the Launch Aurora. (SIGN)
The Baker Street Irregulars started their search for the Launch Aurora. (SIGN)
April 18th 1887
The Acton House was broken into. (REIG)
Holmes and Watson arrived in Baker Street from Lyons.
April 18th 1897
Dr. Sterndale murders Mortimer Tregennis. ( DEVI)
On April 17th…
April 17, 1888: Toby leads Holmes and Watson on a creosote trail. (SIGN)
April 17, 1888: The launch “Aurora” disappeared. (SIGN)
On April 16th…
April 16, 1888: Holmes,Watson and Mary Morstan went to Pondicherry Lodge. (SIGN)
April 16, 1896: Brenda Tregennis was murdered and two brothers lost their sanity. (DEVI)
On April 15th…
April 15, 1876: The Worthingdon Bank Gang was sent to prison. (REIS)
April 15, 1887: Watson arrived at Holmes’s bedside in Lyons. (REIG)
April 15, 1888: Toga kills Bartholomew Sholto with a poison dart. (SIGN)
On April 14th…
April 14, 1887: Holmes lay ill in the Hotel Du Long in Lyons. (REIG)