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Lazarus (as Sherlock Holmes): A person looks through a sack. See 2 men taunting and beating up the person behind the sack. Watson arrives and shoots the 2 bullies. See the reunion of old friends. I am so very glad to see you. The children in the attic are ecstatic. The older girl's grandpa is Holmes and the blond boy's grandpa is Watson.
A Bird's-Eye View of the Thames. In 1891, Sherlock Holmes was a character very much of his time and place, who appealed to British readers directly by confronting the messy, changeable world they lived in. Rather than dwelling in romance or in an idealized past, as many of Arthur Conan Doyle's other characters did, Holmes was grounded squarely in Victorian London. The Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, written over a forty-year span from 1887 to 1927, represented the good, the bad, and the ugly of Victorian society: its ideals, its accomplishments, and its deepest fears.