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(Neither objection works. The 'pace' was also a standardized unit of measurement at that time meaning five Roman feet (or approximately 58 inches), and the sun would be over the second tree at the same time every day regardless of the tree's height.) |
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* [[Title Drop]]: "The Speckled Band" is spoken in-story as part of a woman's last words. |
* [[Title Drop]]: "The Speckled Band" is spoken in-story as part of a woman's last words. |
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* [[Total Party Kill]]: The fate of all the honest crew on the ''Gloria Scott'' {{spoiler|and then a second time shortly afterwards, with the mutineers, as well as the entire ship.}} |
* [[Total Party Kill]]: The fate of all the honest crew on the ''Gloria Scott'' {{spoiler|and then a second time shortly afterwards, with the mutineers, as well as the entire ship.}} |
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* [[Treasure Map]]: ''The Musgrave Ritual''. |
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* [[Treasure Map]]: ''The Musgrave Ritual''. However, given that the map's directions gave the starting point derived from the shadow of one tree when the sun was above a second tree as they were nearly two and a half centuries before the map was used (They would have grown, changing both the angle of the sun and the length of the object casting the shadow - given that they weren't the same kind of tree, they might not have grown at the same rate, further complicating the issue), and the directions were given in the highly inaccurate paces (Holmes has noted that the length of a man's pace is directly related to his height many times, and the idea that Holmes' legs are the same length as the legs of the man who made the map is a bit of a stretch), the fact that they actually ''found'' the treasure is rather surprising. |
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* [[Trouble Magnet Gambit]]: Happens by accident in ''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'', in which the escaped convict Seldon is secretly given some old clothes of Sir Henry's. The titular hound is set on the trail by the smell of Sir Henry's boot, and understandably mistakes Seldon for its real target because of the clothes' odor. |
* [[Trouble Magnet Gambit]]: Happens by accident in ''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'', in which the escaped convict Seldon is secretly given some old clothes of Sir Henry's. The titular hound is set on the trail by the smell of Sir Henry's boot, and understandably mistakes Seldon for its real target because of the clothes' odor. |
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* [[Truth in Television|Truth In Literature]]: Doyle himself would go on to investigate, Sherlock Holmes style, the cases of two men who had been wrongly imprisoned and found the evidence to set them free. |
* [[Truth in Television|Truth In Literature]]: Doyle himself would go on to investigate, Sherlock Holmes style, the cases of two men who had been wrongly imprisoned and found the evidence to set them free. |
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