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Donald Thomas
"The Case of a Boy's Honour" (2010)
Included in: Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts
of Bly (Donald Thomas)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Mrs Hudson)
Historical Figures: Sir John Fisher; (H.H.
Asquith; Thomas Gurrin; Professor James Leigh
Strachan-Davis)
Other Characters: Reginald Winter; Cadets;
Sister Ellison; Patrick Riley; Mrs Franklin; Violet
Henslowe; Freddie; Rest And Be Thankful Landlady;
Samuel Wesley; R.J. Sovran-Phillips; (John
Learmount Porson; Petty Officer Carter; School
Governors; Mrs Riley; Arthur; Commander Portman;
Schoolmasters; Mitzi)
Date: May, 1913
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Portsmouth
Harbour Station; The Isle of Wight; Ventnor Station;
Bradstone St Lawrence; St Vincent's Naval Academy;
King Charles Hotel; Post Office; Rest And Be
Thankful Inn; Aboard the Ryde
Story: Mycroft accompanies Sir John
Fisher to Baker Street. They ask Holmes to investigate
the case of Patrick Riley, a young naval cadet,
accused of stealing a postal order from a fellow cadet
at St Vincent's Naval Academy on the Isle of Wight. He
has been identified in an identity parade by the
assistant postmistress, although she has also asserted
that all the cadets look alike to her. The boy has
since tried to kill himself by standing in the path of
a train. Holmes and Watson travel to the academy,
where Holmes examines tracks leading from the school
to the railway line, and the area surrounding a nearby
pond. Holmes interviews Riley and has him try to copy
his own signature. A defaced hairbrush, a piece of
elder branch, stories of bullying, school photos, and
a train driver's tale lead to the solution of the
case.
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