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* SherlockScan: The TropeNamer - Sherlock's favourite marketing shtick, a perfect means to impress potential clients as to his skills.
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* SherlockScan: The TropeNamer - Sherlock's favourite marketing shtick, a perfect means to impress potential clients as to his skills. In several of the later stories (''e.g.'' "The Yellow Face") these are used almost solely to assure the audience that his deductive genius is ''not'' an InformedAbility, with the actual plot being some human-interest story that doesn't require he and Watson do much more than tail somebody and listen to their tragic past.
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* PinballProtagonist: Holmes and Watson don't really do anything in "The Yellow Face." They listen to a man's story and advise him not to make a move until they can join him. Holmes comes up with a theory, which turns out to be wrong. They join the man and the mystery is solved, but it would have been even if the man had never come to them.
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Redundancy.
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** In "The Norwood Builder", Holmes learns that the titular VictimOfTheWeek was once a suitor of the accused's mother, who broke off with him after learning he'd set a cat loose in an aviary, among other things. It rankled to the point where [[spoiler:years later, he faked his death to escape his debts while arranging for her son to hang for the crime.]]
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** In "The Three Students," [[spoiler:the cheating student Gilchrist]] decides to go off to be a [[UnfortunateImplications police officer in Rhodesia]].
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** In "The Three Students," [[spoiler:the cheating student Gilchrist]] decides to go off to be a [[UnfortunateImplications police officer in Rhodesia]].Rhodesia.
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** In "The Priory School," the missing boy's cap is found in a "Gipsy" camp. [[UnfortunateImplications They are all promptly arrested and we hear nothing more of them, despite that, as it emerges later, they had nothing to do with his disappearance.]]
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** In "The Priory School," the missing boy's cap is found in a "Gipsy" camp. [[UnfortunateImplications They are all promptly arrested and we hear nothing more of them, despite that, as it emerges later, they had nothing to do with his disappearance.]]
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* SecretCompartment:
** In ''A Scandal in Bohemia'', Holmes tricks Irene Adler into revealing the secret compartment where she has concealed a portrait of herself with the King of Bohemia, who has hired the Great Detective to get it back. It's noted that there have been two attempts to steal the portrait from her house already, but the would-be thieves didn't know where to look. Holmes fakes a fire in the house, causing her to immediately rush to collect the portrait from its hiding place -- a hidden recess behind a piece of paneling on the wall.
** ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution'' has Franchise/SherlockHolmes pursue Moriarty to Vienna. This journey was actually prearranged by John Watson to get his comrade to meet with Sigmund Freud, in hopes the doctor can treat Holmes for cocaine addiction. While under Freud's care, the two doctors check Holmes's luggage for narcotics. Holmes brought a valise that seems normal but is oddly heavy. It has a false bottom that holds several vials of 7% cocaine solution and a needle.
** In ''A Scandal in Bohemia'', Holmes tricks Irene Adler into revealing the secret compartment where she has concealed a portrait of herself with the King of Bohemia, who has hired the Great Detective to get it back. It's noted that there have been two attempts to steal the portrait from her house already, but the would-be thieves didn't know where to look. Holmes fakes a fire in the house, causing her to immediately rush to collect the portrait from its hiding place -- a hidden recess behind a piece of paneling on the wall.
** ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution'' has Franchise/SherlockHolmes pursue Moriarty to Vienna. This journey was actually prearranged by John Watson to get his comrade to meet with Sigmund Freud, in hopes the doctor can treat Holmes for cocaine addiction. While under Freud's care, the two doctors check Holmes's luggage for narcotics. Holmes brought a valise that seems normal but is oddly heavy. It has a false bottom that holds several vials of 7% cocaine solution and a needle.
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* PistolWhipping: Watson subdues Colonel Moran at the end of "The Adventure of the Empty House" by hitting him over the head with his revolver.
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* TurnOffByTheJerkass:
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** In the short story, "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", Mrs [=McFarlane=] was once engaged to the titular character, Jonas Oldacre, but broke up with him after being appalled at his cruelty in setting a cat loose in an aviary. [[spoiler:He wickedly plotted revenge for this, and retaliated years later by faking his own death and trying to frame her only son for his "murder", but fortunately Holmes put a stop to this.]]
** In "The Norwood Builder", Holmes learns that the titular VictimOfTheWeek was once a suitor of the accused's mother, who broke off with him after learning he'd set a cat loose in an aviary, among other things. It rankled to the point where [[spoiler:years later, he faked his death to escape his debts while arranging for her son to hang for the crime.]]
** In the short story, "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", Mrs [=McFarlane=] was once engaged to the titular character, Jonas Oldacre, but broke up with him after being appalled at his cruelty in setting a cat loose in an aviary. [[spoiler:He wickedly plotted revenge for this, and retaliated years later by faking his own death and trying to frame her only son for his "murder", but fortunately Holmes put a stop to this.]]
** In "The Norwood Builder", Holmes learns that the titular VictimOfTheWeek was once a suitor of the accused's mother, who broke off with him after learning he'd set a cat loose in an aviary, among other things. It rankled to the point where [[spoiler:years later, he faked his death to escape his debts while arranging for her son to hang for the crime.]]
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* TropeCodifier: Sherlock Holmes codified the structure and tropes of the modern detective story; while there had ''been'' mysteries in the past (such as those written by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe), it was Doyle's stories that established it as a proper genre and set its core conventions.
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* TropeCodifier: Sherlock Holmes codified the structure and tropes of the modern detective story; while there had ''been'' mysteries in the past were mystery stories before it (such as those written by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe), it was Doyle's stories that established it as a proper genre and set its core conventions.
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* TropeCodifier: Sherlock Holmes codified the structure and tropes of the modern detective story; while there had ''been'' mysteries in the past (such as those written by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe), it was Doyle's stories that established it as a proper genre and set its core conventions.
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Priory School isn't an example; James goes to Australia by agreement with his father, not as a legal sentence, so it's under Reassigned To Antarctica
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* SentencedToDownUnder:
** This is what happened to a character in "The Adventure of the ''Gloria Scott''". However, he and his fellow convicts rebel and seize control of the ship before they reach Australia.
** [[spoiler:James Wilder's fate]] at the end of "The Priory School" after [[spoiler:attempting to take his half-brother hostage.]]
** This is what happened to a character in "The Adventure of the ''Gloria Scott''". However, he and his fellow convicts rebel and seize control of the ship before they reach Australia.
** [[spoiler:James Wilder's fate]] at the end of "The Priory School" after [[spoiler:attempting to take his half-brother hostage.]]
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* SentencedToDownUnder:
**SentencedToDownUnder: This is what happened to a character in "The Adventure of the ''Gloria Scott''". However, he and his fellow convicts rebel and seize control of the ship before they reach Australia.
** [[spoiler:James Wilder's fate]] at the end of "The Priory School" after [[spoiler:attempting to take his half-brother hostage.]]Australia.
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** [[spoiler:James Wilder's fate]] at the end of "The Priory School" after [[spoiler:attempting to take his half-brother hostage.]]
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* RunawayBride: In "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", Holmes is approached by Lord Robert St. Simon. He's just been married to Hatty Doran, but she disappeared at the wedding reception and he needs help finding her. [[spoiler: It turns out Hatty's previous husband, whom she thought was dead, showed up at the ceremony. She then decided to just run off with him without telling anyone.]]
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* RunawayBride: RunawayBride:
** In "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", Holmes is approached by Lord Robert St. Simon. He's just been married to Hatty Doran, but she disappeared at the wedding reception and he needs help finding her. [[spoiler: It turns out Hatty's previous husband, whom she thought was dead, showed up at the ceremony. She then decided to just run off with him without telling anyone.]]
** In "A Case of Identity," Miss Mary Sutherland has been abandoned by her fiancé Hosmer Angel on their wedding day; he got into a carriage to the church and then never showed up. [[spoiler:Angel was actually her stepfather, taking advantage of her severe nearsightedness to string her along, prevent a real marriage, and thus keep her living at home so he (as himself) can benefit from her money for as long as possible.]]
** In "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", Holmes is approached by Lord Robert St. Simon. He's just been married to Hatty Doran, but she disappeared at the wedding reception and he needs help finding her. [[spoiler: It turns out Hatty's previous husband, whom she thought was dead, showed up at the ceremony. She then decided to just run off with him without telling anyone.]]
** In "A Case of Identity," Miss Mary Sutherland has been abandoned by her fiancé Hosmer Angel on their wedding day; he got into a carriage to the church and then never showed up. [[spoiler:Angel was actually her stepfather, taking advantage of her severe nearsightedness to string her along, prevent a real marriage, and thus keep her living at home so he (as himself) can benefit from her money for as long as possible.]]
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** "The Abbey Grange": Three robbers break into a country house, kill the owner, tie his wife to a chair and make off with some silver. Unfortunately for the police, the silver was found in a pond outside and the presumed thieves were arrested in New York, meaning they have to look for new culprits. [[spoiler:It was actually self-defense, the wife's platonic lover was outside and fought with her abusive husband, killing him. He helped set up the break-in story, and is LetOffByTheDetective once Holmes tracks him down.]]
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** "The Abbey Grange": Three robbers break into a country house, kill the owner, tie his wife to a chair and make off with some silver. Unfortunately for the police, the silver was found in a pond outside and the presumed thieves were arrested in New York, York the day after supposedly committing the crime in England, meaning they have to look for new culprits. [[spoiler:It was actually self-defense, the wife's platonic lover was outside and fought with her abusive husband, killing him. He helped set up the break-in story, and is LetOffByTheDetective once Holmes tracks him down.]]
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* RoguishRomani: In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", one of the reasons why Dr Grimesby Roylott has a sinister reputation in the local area is because he is known to associate with wandering gypsies who hang around on the plantation near Stoke Moran. Ultimately the gypsies turn out to be a RedHerring and have nothing to do with the murder, but Holmes admits that he started out on the wrong scent, believing that the ‘speckled band’ referred to the band of gypsies.
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* RoguishRomani: RoguishRomani:
** In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", one of the reasons why Dr Grimesby Roylott has a sinister reputation in the local area is because he is known to associate with wandering gypsies who hang around on the plantation near Stoke Moran. Ultimately the gypsies turn out to be a RedHerring and have nothing to do with the murder, but Holmes admits that he started out on the wrong scent, believing that the ‘speckled band’ referred to the band ofgypsies.gypsies.
** In "The Priory School," the missing boy's cap is found in a "Gipsy" camp. [[UnfortunateImplications They are all promptly arrested and we hear nothing more of them, despite that, as it emerges later, they had nothing to do with his disappearance.]]
** In "Silver Blaze," local Romani are considered, essentially by default, as possible thieves of the titular horse, but once again turn out to be uninvolved.
** In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", one of the reasons why Dr Grimesby Roylott has a sinister reputation in the local area is because he is known to associate with wandering gypsies who hang around on the plantation near Stoke Moran. Ultimately the gypsies turn out to be a RedHerring and have nothing to do with the murder, but Holmes admits that he started out on the wrong scent, believing that the ‘speckled band’ referred to the band of
** In "The Priory School," the missing boy's cap is found in a "Gipsy" camp. [[UnfortunateImplications They are all promptly arrested and we hear nothing more of them, despite that, as it emerges later, they had nothing to do with his disappearance.]]
** In "Silver Blaze," local Romani are considered, essentially by default, as possible thieves of the titular horse, but once again turn out to be uninvolved.
