It is also mentioned in passing in “ The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual” as Holmes recounts to Watson his early cases when he first became a detective. Interestingly, the case is referenced by Holmes in “ The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” when Holmes consults an index of his past exploits for references to “vampires” and remarks on “the Voyage of the Gloria Scott” listed under “V”. Trevor told about some papers in a cabinet, one was a written confession detailing a lurid tale of crime, punishment, transport to Australia, mutiny, redemption and the inevitable fall. Fly for your life.” Holmes had deduced that the game was blackmail. He eventually discovered the key, that being if one read every third word beginning with the first, there was an intelligible message: “The game is up.

Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen pheasant’s life.” It meant nothing to Victor, and it was quite a while before Holmes deduced anything. The letter read, “The supply of game for London is going steadily up. They found that he had died while Victor had been meeting Holmes at the station. Once he got there, Victor told Holmes that his father was dying as a result of a stroke suffered after he received a letter. Seven weeks after Holmes left he received a telegram from the younger Trevor begging him to come back to Norfolk. Trevor to rush for a shot of brandy before greeting him. The evening before Holmes’ departure an old man suddenly appeared at the house causing the elder Mr. In his university days, Holmes spent a month with his friend, Victor Trevor, at the Trevor estate in Norfolk. The clues in this tale and several others have fueled generations of speculations.” Leslie Klinger, in “ The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volume 1”, said, “There are many gaps in Holmes account of those early years – most intriguingly, what college he attended. In it we learn more about Holmes’ fateful meeting with Watson than in any other story. Today we conclude with The Adventure of the Gloria Scott. We finished the review of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and moved on to The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Today, we conclude our week of Sherlock Holmes-themed blog posts.

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