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** The modern-day prevalence of gynecomastia across age groups is about one in three, although it's primarily concentrated in adolescents and seniors. Nonetheless, if you see a lot of dudes shirtless you're gonna see some dudes with tits, so it wouldn't really be a huge shocker.
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* Another point in favor: Watson occasionally describes Holmes' voice as high-pitched. Not entirely clear whether he means he always sounds like that or just when he's excited and yelling at Watson about whatever he's excited about, but nonetheless. High-pitched voice?:
--> ''I heard a ring at the bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old companion’s voice.'' ("The Stockbroker's Clerk")
--> ''I heard a ring at the bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old companion’s voice.'' ("The Stockbroker's Clerk")
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[[WMG: The Hound from the legend was real.]]
Just for fun! While Sir Charles, Seldon and Sir Henry were all confronted with the 'hoax' hound, the actual Hound from the legend, the spectral creature that killed Hugo, was drawn to pursue Stapleton because he is the true 'heir' to Hugo's wicked nature, thus earning the family curse. The creature pursued him into the Grimpen Mire, either driving him to become trapped in the bog or devouring him.
Just for fun! While Sir Charles, Seldon and Sir Henry were all confronted with the 'hoax' hound, the actual Hound from the legend, the spectral creature that killed Hugo, was drawn to pursue Stapleton because he is the true 'heir' to Hugo's wicked nature, thus earning the family curse. The creature pursued him into the Grimpen Mire, either driving him to become trapped in the bog or devouring him.
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*** "He" might've been able to work, but this would have not spared him from from inequality in pretty much every other aspect.
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* Also, Marcia Wilson (aragonite) had Lestrade point out in a fic that Holmes lets the police take the credit so that he can call it in as favors later.
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* Also, Marcia Wilson Creator/MarciaWilson (aragonite) had Lestrade point out in a fic that Holmes lets the police take the credit so that he can call it in as favors later.
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** Victorian proprieties were prudish, but we tend to exaggerate how much so; they weren't quite ''that'' squeamish. Sure, a man having intimate knowledge of a woman's private regions without being her husband while she was still alive would be scandalous in most circumstances, but much as with today general exceptions were allowed for doctors and medical professionals (on the basis that, well, as in this case they wouldn't have been able to do their jobs otherwise), and certainly if the woman was dead. Being a coroner back in the Victorian days would be much like it is now -- the coroner would likely have seen far worse in their working life than a woman's genitals, and certainly would be unlikely to be so utterly scandalised at the prospect of seeing them as to be unable to even look at it.
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[[WMG:Dr. Grimsby Roylott is guilty of the murder of his wife.]]
In "The Speckled Band", Dr Roylott is guilty of two murders -- the beating of his manservant in India in a fit of rage, and the murder of his stepdaughter Julia -- and the attempted murder of his other stepdaughter. Yet the death of his wife is explained as simply having been the result of a railway accident, with the nature of the accident being unexplained -- and yet it left Dr Roylott conveniently in charge of the woman's money until her daughters married. For a man already with one violent death to his name already, a willingness to murder to increase his financial support, and a crafty and subtle mind that makes him, in Holmes' own words, among "the first of criminals", this seems too much of a coincidence. It could, have course, have been a derailment, in which case it's hard to see how Dr Roylott could have been involved without some kind of massive scheme going on... or it could have been as simple as the unfortunate Mrs Stoner finding herself "accidentally" knocked in front of an oncoming train. Either way, Dr Roylott managed to murder his wife in a subtle fashion that left even Sherlock Holmes either unaware or unable to prove that it was anything other than an unfortunate railway accident.
In "The Speckled Band", Dr Roylott is guilty of two murders -- the beating of his manservant in India in a fit of rage, and the murder of his stepdaughter Julia -- and the attempted murder of his other stepdaughter. Yet the death of his wife is explained as simply having been the result of a railway accident, with the nature of the accident being unexplained -- and yet it left Dr Roylott conveniently in charge of the woman's money until her daughters married. For a man already with one violent death to his name already, a willingness to murder to increase his financial support, and a crafty and subtle mind that makes him, in Holmes' own words, among "the first of criminals", this seems too much of a coincidence. It could, have course, have been a derailment, in which case it's hard to see how Dr Roylott could have been involved without some kind of massive scheme going on... or it could have been as simple as the unfortunate Mrs Stoner finding herself "accidentally" knocked in front of an oncoming train. Either way, Dr Roylott managed to murder his wife in a subtle fashion that left even Sherlock Holmes either unaware or unable to prove that it was anything other than an unfortunate railway accident.
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* "Smarter" doesn't necessarily equate to "wiser". Mycroft is even more stringently data-oriented than Sherlock, and deals in documents more than individuals; he may have lapsed in not realizing what a gang of ruthless kidnappers or a timid bureaucrat might do under panic and duress, without diminishing his genius for calculated assessment.
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* Unless this WMG presupposes that werewolves live a lot longer than humans, the Hugo who wrote down the legend of the Hound can't be the same Hugo who appeared in the tale. The old manuscript shown to Holmes by Dr. Mortimer was dated to 1742, whereas the portrait of the original Hugo (that resembled Stapleton) was created in 1647.
