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* TheConvenientStoreNextDoor: "The Red-Headed League" does this with a pawn shop across the way from a bank. Unlike most examples, the business used here [[spoiler:is actually ''legitimate'' (and was to begin with); the eponymous "League" was concocted to distract the owner, while the shop's (new) assistant covered for the gang digging the tunnel to the bank.]]
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** In "The Adventure of Black Peter", Holmes gets into a struggle with a harpooner. Anticipating it, he sneakily handcuffed the man as he made him sign a document, but the man's strength was so gigantic that even Holmes proficiency in combat was nil, and only Watson's timely pressing of his revolver against his temple stopped the fight. Tellingly, earlier in the story Holmes had experimented to see if he had the strength to deliver a harpoon through a human body and failed, while the man had previously succeeded with ease.
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* FabricatedBlackmail: "The Adventure of the Two Women" has a dead politician's family threatened (if certain state documents he kept aren't handed over) with the scandal of revealing he was in a bigamous marriage with a Frenchwoman, leaving the widow with a child. However, Holmes realizes the marriage certificate used as proof is a fraud since the type of ink used to write the man's name didn't exist at the time of the supposed signing.
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** In "The Crooked Man", the victim is highly respected, but in the course of Holmes's investigation it comes out that he gained his status, and his wife, by deplorable acts, including consorting with the enemy in wartime and arranging the death of the man his wife had really been in love with. [[spoiler:It turns out that nobody murdered him: he died of shock on being confronted by his former rival, alive but hideously deformed from his ordeal.]]
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* GermanicDepressives: Heidegger, the missing German schoolmaster in "The Priory School", is described as being a silent, morose man.
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* BreakoutCharacter: [[BrilliantButLazy Mycroft Holmes]] and [[PromotedToLoveInterest Irene Adler]] come up more times in adaptations than they ever do in the actual stories: Mycroft only appears in three ("The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans") whereas Irene only appears in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and is referenced indirectly in a ContinuityNod in "The Five Orange Pips".
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* BreakoutCharacter: [[BrilliantButLazy Mycroft Holmes]] and [[PromotedToLoveInterest Irene Adler]] come up more times in adaptations and fanfics than they ever do in the actual stories: Mycroft only appears in three ("The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans") whereas Irene only appears in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and is referenced indirectly in a ContinuityNod in "The Five Orange Pips".
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* TheAlibi: In "The Abbey Grange", the Randall gang is acquitted for murder... because they're in New York getting arrested for another crime.
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** The most notable example is "Charles Augustus Milverton". Holmes describes the title character as the "king of the blackmailers", saying that there are dozens of people in London who go white at the mention of his name. Holmes can't have Milverton arrested since he'll just release the incriminating information, his client can't afford to meet Milverton's price and if he tries to take the letters by force Milverton will fight back and claim self-defense. Seeing no other option, Holmes and Watson decide to [[spoiler:burgle Milverton's house to steal all his blackmail material. They end up witnessing Milverton being shot and killed by a noblewoman who'd suffered a DespairEventHorizon and had nothing left to lose.]] Lestrade visits Holmes and Watson the next day, asking them to investigate the incident, but Holmes flat-out refuses.
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** Another incident that turned out to be not contrived at all occurs in "Silver Blaze". The stable boy had been drugged with powdered opium -- which has a distinct flavor -- which was mixed with his supper, which happened to be curry. [[spoiler:Holmes realizes the person who drugged the food had to be a member of the household, because no stranger could have had the luck to drug the dish the very night it would be something spicy.]]
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** Another incident that turned out to be not contrived at all occurs in "Silver Blaze". The stable boy had been drugged with powdered opium -- which mixed into his supper. Powdered opium has a distinct flavor -- which was mixed with flavor, but the boy didn't notice due to his supper, which happened supper happening to be a spicy curry. [[spoiler:Holmes realizes the person who drugged the food had to be a member of the household, because no nobody would make a plan that depended on a stranger could have had the luck to drug the dish the very night it would be eating something spicy.spicy on a particular day; the culprit had to be someone who knew about the curry beforehand.]]
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* DeconfirmedBachelor: Lord Robert St. Simon of "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" is 41 years old on the day of his wedding to Hatty Doran. Holmes remarks that 41 is "mature for marriage" and a society article announcing the wedding notes that St. Simon has spent his entire adulthood resisting matrimony. It's strongly implied that his [[GoldDigger motivation]] for finally settling down is because he's [[ImpoverishedPatrician broke]] and Hatty is [[NouveauRiche rich.]] But it's subverted when no sooner are the nuptials solemnized [[spoiler: Hatty's previous husband, whom she thought was dead, shows up alive and well. And so, [[DisposableFiance St. Simon's]] marriage becomes null and void and he resumes being a [[ConfirmedBachelor bachelor in his forties.]]]]
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* GeniusThriller: One of the UrExamples, probably the TropeCodifier.
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* BreatherEpisode: A few of the short stories are remarkably innocuous compared to the usual murders, kidnappings, jewel heists, etc.:
** "The Yellow Face": a man's wife is acting suspicious, and he sees her going into a building with a spooky face in the upstairs window. [[spoiler:It's her daughter from her first marriage, wearing a mask to hide the fact she's Black as the wife feared her husband's and society's judgment. The couple are reconciled and he accepts his stepdaughter as his own.]]
** "The Three Students": a professor is distressed that the answers to an important exam have been copied. He evokes the possibility of scandal, but even that is a bit perfunctory. [[spoiler:As expected, it's one of the titular students, who admits it when caught and quietly leaves the university.]]
** "The Missing Three-Quarter": a rugby player runs off right before the big game. The disappearance is mysterious, but nobody really seems to suspect foul play. [[spoiler:He was at the bedside of his dying wife; she was a secret because his rich uncle would have disinherited him otherwise.]]
** "The Yellow Face": a man's wife is acting suspicious, and he sees her going into a building with a spooky face in the upstairs window. [[spoiler:It's her daughter from her first marriage, wearing a mask to hide the fact she's Black as the wife feared her husband's and society's judgment. The couple are reconciled and he accepts his stepdaughter as his own.]]
** "The Three Students": a professor is distressed that the answers to an important exam have been copied. He evokes the possibility of scandal, but even that is a bit perfunctory. [[spoiler:As expected, it's one of the titular students, who admits it when caught and quietly leaves the university.]]
** "The Missing Three-Quarter": a rugby player runs off right before the big game. The disappearance is mysterious, but nobody really seems to suspect foul play. [[spoiler:He was at the bedside of his dying wife; she was a secret because his rich uncle would have disinherited him otherwise.]]
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** But Heidegger the German teacher from "The Priory School" is a false example — when the story was published, Martin Heidegger the philosopher was only in his teens.
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** The reason for the titular garment in "The Veiled Lodger": she was horribly mutilated by a lion.
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** Eduardo Lucas in "The Second Stain". He [[spoiler:was murdered by his wife for abandoning her, and then it turns out he blackmailed Lady Hilda into stealing a document for an unknown political agenda.]]
* BilingualBonus: Sherlock Holmes quotes Flaubert in the original French in "The Red-Headed League".
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* EvilDesiresInnocence: ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' has the ancient Baskerville legend of the titular hound, which describes the progenitor of the curse, Hugo Baskerville, as a "profane and godless man", who lusted after the daughter of a local farmer, described as a gentle young woman who avoided Hugo whenever possible. Hugo abducted the unfortunate girl from her home one day when her father and brothers were away. While he and his fellow miscreants were drinking in the lower floor of the manor, she escaped from the bedroom window on the second floor and attempted to flee. Hugo Baskerville, discovering "the cage empty and the bird escaped" gave chase on his horse, only to be pursued by a spectral hound from the pits of Hell itself. His fellows found him and the girl both dead, the girl having died of fright, and Hugo's throat torn out by the hound, which was still standing over him when they found him.
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** In "The Crooked Man", the victim is highly respected, but in the course of Holmes's investigation it comes out that he gained his status, and his wife, by deplorable acts, including consorting with the enemy in wartime and arranging the death of the man his wife had really been in love with. [[spoiler:It turns out that nobody murdered him: he died of shock on being confronted by his former rival, alive but hideously deformed from his ordeal.]]
** In "The Resident Patient", the victim is revealed to be a robber and murderer living under an assumed name, who was done in by his former associates for shopping them to the authorities and avoiding punishment for his own significant part in their crimes.
** Subverted/Exaggerated in "The Norwood Builder". The asshole in this story turned out not be a victim at all, but had merely faked his own death and framed an innocent guy for his murder in order to get revenge on theguys guy's mother.
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** The title character of "Charles Augustus Milverton", who is so unsympathetic that Holmes and Watson allow his killer to get away; also seen in "Black Peter" with a victim who was abusive towards his family and an all around nasty piece of work. The rest of the stories provide plenty more examples. This shows up in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Cardboard Box", "The Crooked Man", "The Resident Patient", "The Abbey Grange" and "The Devil's Foot". In "The Abbey Grange" Holmes and Watson convene a kangaroo court essentially to find the murderer not guilty by reason of this trope.
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* FunetikAksent: In "The Sussex Vampire", the Peruvian-born maid Dolores speaks broken English, with bad grammar and pronunciations such as "verra ill" and "she will leesten" written phonetically.
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* FunetikAksent: In "The Sussex Vampire", the Peruvian-born maid Dolores speaks broken English, with bad grammar and pronunciations such as "verra ill" and "she will leesten" written phonetically.
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire."Vampire" concerns a woman found sucking blood from a child's neck. It turns out that she had been sucking poison out of a wound inflicted by someone else.
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*** More generally, oppressed subjects of "Tiger of San Pedro" managed to overthrow the dictator and (eventually) murder him.
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