Holmes is rewarded with the gift of a fine emerald tie-pin by a gracious lady at Windsor. This is assumed to be Queen Victoria.
All The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Watson tells us that The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans took place in November 1895. It is one of 8 Sherlock Holmes short stories in His Last Bow. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1908. Holmes and Watson are visited by Holmes’ brother Mycroft, an unheard of event in itself, which indicates the urgency of the situation. The body of a young clerk, Cadogan West, has been found on the tracks just outside Aldgate Underground station. His pocket contains plans for the top- secret Bruce-Partington submarine. Some of the plans are missing. Mycroft states that all the services of the British state are at Holmes’ disposal to locate the missing plans. Holmes however deduces that Cadogan West pursued the real thief, was murdered for his pains and his body placed by the murderers on the roof of a train. It was the train hitting a set of points that caused the body to fall off the train’s roof. Holmes locates the house where the murder took place, secures the arrest of both culprits and is rewarded by Queen Victoria.
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28 Hogarth Road, London
Where Cadogan West was murdered and from where his body was placed on the roof of the train. Here Holmes, Watson, and the police arrest one of the conspirators Colonel Valentine Walter, the brother of the official custodian of the plans.
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Woolwich Arsenal
Where Cadogan West worked and from where the plans were stolen.
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Woolwich Arsenal Railway Station, London
Holmes and Watson travelled to this station to interview Cadogan West’s family and work colleagues.
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Aldgate Underground Station, London
The body fell on to the tracks just outside the station.