Sherlock Holmes and the Battersea Fetishists
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This Sherlockian gem was first published in 2016 in the third collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Battersea Fetishists - John A. Little
Sherlock Holmes And The Battersea Fetishists
John A. Little
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First published in 2016
This edition published in 2017 by
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The Battersea Fetishists.
After a gap of almost forty years, I am now in a position to release this particular story, which was withheld from publication at the time, in order to protect the reputation of a certain secret organisation. The events took place in March of 1889, shortly before the marriage to my first wife, Mary Morstan, may God rest her precious soul.
How well I can recall the London of those days! The hissing gas lamps, the dense choking fogs, the wonderful horse-drawn growlers and the musical clacking of their hooves along the cobbled streets, Her Majesty still upon the throne. Not a single Beardmore taxi to be heard. The city seemed so full of life then! As, of course, were the great detective and myself.
Holmes had spent a frustrating winter with little detective work on his plate since the strange but satisfying case of the disappearing racehorse called Silver Blaze, that featured the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, whereas I had been completely involved in preparations for my forthcoming wedding.
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I have never divulged my membership of the Masonic Order to that cynical friend of mine called Sherlock Holmes, although he must be aware that my periodic absences from Baker Street every fourth Tuesday evening might have nothing whatsoever to do with billiards and Thurston and everything to do with the solemn rites of freemasonry ritual. Whisper it not, but between you, me and the gatepost, I am a York Rite Master Mason, who has undergone the third degree initiation ceremony, and am therefore entitled to take on the role of Worshipful Master at meetings. I also have a strong family connection to the Order, in that my father was raised to the position of twenty-fifth degree Knight Of The Brazen Serpent in the Scottish Rite, a title that would have my old colleague in absolute tears of howling laughter