By request from New York via Bluesky. #sherlockholmes #mysteries #literature #miniatures #art #specialinterest

So, even though I’ve got an ever lengthening list of other books, stories, and/or characters for which I’d like to make boxes, and even though I still have two books worth of Sherlock Holmes stories for which I have yet to make a Portable Mystery Box, I’m doing “A Study in Scarlet” again. It was…

Still have to finish up “Abbey Grange” and “The Second Stain,” but I’m starting to daydream about “The Hound of the Baskervilles!” I’ve been looking forward to this particular box, especially since my husband and I are gonna read it aloud to each other. (We do this with a few books a year, and he’s…

Clues include trodden grass, cigarette butts, a medical treatise, a bone handled sealing wax knife, a tin of cigarettes, a diary, a packet of letters, a vial of poison, a map, some of Watson’s files, etc.

Clues include a sheathed knife w/ bloody handle, a plaster fragment w/ a black pearl embedded inside, a bone handled clasp knife in a pool of blood, parsley sinking into melting butter, a fire poker, Holmes’s favorite weapon – the lead-loaded riding crop (so kinky), and plaster fragments beneath a red lamp and in grass…