Dr John Watson welcomed the arrival of the telephone at 221B Baker Street - it would after all, do wonders for his social life.
Sherlock Holmes was not so sure feeling that the ring of the telephone bell might somehow bode no good.
It was high summer in London: Watson was tired of the heat and the crowds and set off for a couple of weeks of well deserved rest at a manor house in the country.
The other guests were men of letters and the arts, educated, well travelled, men of the w.
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