#the adventure of the greek interpreter

[whats-in-a-sentence]

"Come in, Sherlock! Come in, sir," said he, blandly, smiling at our surprised faces.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"But I shall never be easy in my mind until I know what has become of my poor man with the sticking plaster upon his face."

Little moments from Granada's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1Ep9, "The Greek Interpreter" (1984). Dir. Alan Grint. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, David Burke as Dr. Watson, Alkis Kritikos as Mr. Melas, and Victoria Harwood as Sophia Kratides

[mycroftholmesian]

The Brothers Holmes 🤍💚🤍 The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter 📕

[principiumindividuationis777]

[thebeesareback]

The most evil Sherlock Holmes villain: champions edition

Hello beloved thots. The results of the semi-finals are in, so now you can vote for your favourite overall villain

[monocordum]

Watson on Holmes, taken out of context: "He's not attracted to women and has NO OTHER FRIEND beside me, it all goes beyond me". Holmes to Watson, taken out of context: "My characteristics run in the family, and my brother is ONE OF THE QUEEREST MEN".

Out of context indeed, completely unrelated, huh huh.

(From The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, September 1893 issue of The Strand)

[holmesoldfellow]

The original 1893 manuscript for "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[cantsayidont]

November 1987. A striking example of Dan Day's illustrations for the Renegade Press CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES series, from the finale of "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter." The text in the lower right, which is from the Doyle story, reads:

Months afterwards a curious newspaper cutting reached us from Buda-Pesth. It told of how two Englishmen who had been travelling with a woman had met with a tragic end. They had each been stabbed, it seems, and the Hungarian police were of opinion that they had quarrelled and had inflicted mortal injuries upon each other. Holmes, however, is, I fancy, of a different way of thinking, and he holds to this day that if one could find the Grecian girl one might learn how the wrongs of herself and her brother came to be avenged.

[oh-dear-so-queer]

"The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft, one of the queerest men. (...)"

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[marshmallow613]

Obsessed with bbc sherlock making a man who canonically has "no ambition, and no energy" the literal British Government

[intj-greenwords]

The Diogenes Club sounds like just my thing: comfortable chairs, reading materials, pleasant surroundings, and no social interaction allowed.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[quill-of-thoth]

Letters from Watson: The Greek Interpreter

Part 1: The fun bits

Oh boy we're gonna meet Mycroft

"Art in the Blood" I unironically adopted this as a kid for the long-standing family neurodivergence. We appear to have words in the blood instead, though most of us can draw competently.

Sherlock and Mycroft are seven years apart: if they were ever sent away to school this might explain a lot about their dynamic, as by the time Sherlock was five or six and could remember things well Mycroft would have been old enough to be sent to school. By the time Sherlock was at college (at either 17-18 or, if you're Baring-Gould, X) Mycroft was a few years into his career.

The rest is likely explained by the fact that Mycroft does not socialize. At all.

"No energy and no ambition" it seems like Mycroft may have gotten a very different format of the family depression than Sherlock.

Regent's circus is now known as Oxford Circus... it's an open square at the intersection of Regent Street and Oxford Street. Pall Mall is in an area of London by Trafalgar Square where a lot of government buildings are or were. Google Maps estimates Baker Street to Pall Mall as a 40 minute walk.

The first TWO times I read this series I did not get the reference for the Diogenes Club. Once, I was twelve. The second time I was halfway through a classics major and really should have known.

A Billiard-marker is apparently to a game of billiards what a golf caddy is to golf. Probably complete with problems getting paid.

A Sapper is a Royal Engineer... aka a trench digger. (They did other things too)

[thefisherqueen]

The Letters from Watson have been a mostly fun and sometimes suprisingly sweet read so far, even while they surely had their eye-rolling moments, but not The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter. I just finished reading it and, dear gods, it took me out with its darkness. 

A man slowly starved and sufficated to death, another kidnapped and forced to work and nearly sufficated himself, a woman kidnapped for literal months... Arthur Conan Doyle, that’s some heavy stuff.  

And it ends so unresolved. It seems highly atypical for Holmes and Watson to just abandon Sophie Kratides to her fate like that. The men had only had an hour or two headstart, Sherlock and Watson had clear physical descriptions, the time and financial means to travel after them, had aid by their side. Why give up? It gives some major ‘she brought this onto herself, let her suffer’ vibes to me.

Sophie Kratides was three times abandoned, first by her friends, then by her brother who cared more about money than his or her safety (even if it is questionable his signing would have saved them), then by Sherlock and Watson, and I can’t deal

[principiumindividuationis777]

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA by Arthur Conan Doyle (1891) (link)

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE GREEK INTERPRETER by Arthur Conan Doyle (1894) (link) - tw: death

I had come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.