A bone-handled dagger and a black glove in a pool of blood; a piece of luggage; two matches and a cigarette end in an envelope; a candle; a chair with a meal and a slip of paper, and Holmes’s scrapbook and glue pot. Also included are telegrams, newspaper articles,several cryptic messages, etc.
Wisteria Lodge
A scary face in a window; an elementary botany book, a tin box, and a spud; a bottle of opium; a platter of charred bones; a sink containing a dead chicken; a bucket of blood; and a voodoo doll. And the paper clues.
The Sign of Four
Box of pearls, stone hand axe, bloody coil of rope, a syringe in a Morocco leather case, a pipe, a vial of cocaine, a blow pipe with poisoned darts, a Jezail bullet, a pocket watch, a map, letters, telegrams, etc.
The Adventure of the Golden Pence-nez
Clues include a tin of cigarettes and cigarette butts, a blood-stained letter opener, hot water with lemon, a packet of letters, a vial of poison, and more.
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
Let me tell you about making that corkscrew… phew.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Fireplace, window, burglary kit, dark lantern, pocketbook, and a framed photograph of a mysterious woman.Safe, bookcase, desk with document.
A Study in Scarlet
Clues include a candle, a portmanteau with handcuffs, suspicious pills, a menacing note, a Jezail bullet, telegrams, newspaper articles, and more.
The Adventure of Black Peter
Sea chest, tantalus, log books, a bottle of rum, two glasses, and three harpoons.
After finishing Joe’s box, in which I made an initial foray into making furniture and designing complete scenes, I’m afraid these boxes are going to get way more complex. This is my imagined, miniaturized version of the murder scene in this very fun story.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Holy moly – so many paper clues! Clay clues include a handbag with a bundle of money, a candle, handcuffs, and Holmes’s monograph on ciphers.
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
This was one of those stories with very few physical clues. And I definitely found that bicycle in a clearance aisle – it’s not handmade.
Imagined Parlor of 221-B
Made for Joe.
An Exception to My Rule
This is a work-in-progress for my violin instructor, Joe (hence the miniature violin, which I definitely bought because my polymer clay skills are not that polished yet.) Rather than basing this box on one specific story, I have instead decided to do a general Homes theme. I’m having a lot of fun with this one. The fireplace will be set against a wall with “V.R.” blown through with bullet holes, and I really want to throw my badass old hypodermic syringe in there, too, but my husband says I should probably work with Joe for a year or more before I get that weird.
Fireplace, coal scuttle with cigars, a Persian slipper, pipes and pipe rack, candle, correspondence stabbed into the mantlepiece with a jack-knife, plugs and dottles of tobacco drying on the corner, and all of Holmes’s monographs.
The Norwood Builder
Clues include: a safe, a walking stick, fingerprints, 2 buckets of water, 2 burnt hay bales, a Masonic symbol on a watch chain, and evidence found in a fire, and more…
The Bascombe Valley Mystery
Silver Blaze
Gifted to my therapist’s office. I wanted to do something special for one of my favorite Holmes stories, so I modified this junk store jewelry box. Now it’s 221-B, Baker Street.
The Crooked Man
Clues include: a furry animal in a wicker crate, an Indian rupee, a wooden club with a bone handle, tracings of animal tracks, and more…
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Clues include: two locks of hair, a handkerchief with a mirror inside, and a chained dog.
The Red-Headed League
Left in local bookstores. Because I’ve been doing these in order of publication, this story was one of my earliest boxes. This is the second version I made, with clues including: orange hair, a quill pen, a bottle of ink, a Chinese coin on a chain, and the A volume of an encyclopedia.
The Gloria Scott
Wounded Sherlock, lead-loaded Penang lawyer walking stick, fades tattoo, a brass cylindrical container, and more…
The Musgrave Ritual
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
This was one of my childhood favorites; I was enraptured by the scene where Holmes and Watson wait in the darkened room to hear the mysterious and deadly whistle, so it was a lot of fun to recreate that moment. (And hats off to Jeremy Brett & Granada tv for pulling it off beautifully.) Clues include: candle, cane, bell rope, snake, dog leash, and bent fireplace poker.
The Greek Interpreter
Clues include: bloody sticking plasters, a brass tripod with smoking charcoal, a lead-loaded bludgeon, a slate with Greek writing, and more.
The Resident Patient
(Sent to the cast of the “Sherlock & Co.” podcast – Edit: They never bothered to acknowledge it, so it could still be in a shipping container somewhere in the Atlantic, for all I know. Trying really hard not to think the cast are enormous twats). This story comes in a wooden cigar box as a simulacrum for the black trunk which the murder victim kept at the foot of his bed. Clues include: four cigar butts, a noose, a scratched key, a framed photo, a screwdriver, a wicker basket of Victorian medical implements (super fun to make, btw. I mean, a bone saw!), and more.
The Reigate Puzzle/Squires
The bowl of oranges and carafe of water that Holmes knocks over and blames on poor Watson.The stolen barometer, ivory paperweight, ball of twine, and Pope’s Homer.The paper clues, including congratulatory letters to Holmes from European nobility, a telegram calling Watson to Holmes’s sickbed, calling cards, various other correspondence , and quotes from the story.
The Noble Bachelor
There are a handful of stories in which Holmes and Watson solve a case using few clues that are reproducible in my chosen format. “The Noble Bachelor” and “The Yellow Face” are two that come immediately to mind. So this is something of a mini-box, with only the bouquet and a few paper clues.
The Naval Treaty
Clues include: a call bell, a bloody bandage, suspicious plumbing, a covered dish, and more…
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