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2 unusual facts about The Adventure of the Six Napoleons


Cruet-stand

Sherlock Holmes uses a cruet set as a prop for his newspaper in The Adventure of the Six Napoleons: "Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate."

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon.


Sebastian Moran

Around half the stories in the collection had previously been published separately: "A Shambles in Belgravia" in BBC Online's Sherlock Holmes anthology, "A Volume in Vermilion" in Sherlock Holmes' Mystery Magazine, "The Red Planet League" in Gaslight Grimoire, and "The Adventure of the Six Maledictions" in Gaslight Arcanum.


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