“It was one Sunday evening early in September of the year 1903 that I received one of Holmes’ laconic messages: “Come at once if convenient – if inconvenient, come all the same.” – S.H.”

The story for discussion at the next regular meeting of the Stormy Petrels is “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”

Holmes says that this problem is a ‘tangled skein’ and he is looking for a loose end. For example: Why does Professor Presbury’s wolf-hound, Roy, endeavour to bite him? After all, Holmes states that “a dog reflects the family life”.

Camford – is it Cambridge or Oxford?
Why did Mrs. Bennett call her husband Jack, when his name is Trevor?
What role do langur monkeys play in this story?

For answers to these questions and more, please join the Stormy Petrels at the next meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 7th at 7:00 pm at the home of our Priory Schoolmaster, P. Wood.

Please contact your Consulting Detective for more details.

” I can discover facts, Watson, but I cannot change them.”

The story up for discussion at our June 1st meeting is “The Problem of Thor Bridge” published in The Strand Magazine in February and March, 1922.

Did Mrs. Gibson commit suicide? Or was it murder? How was Grace Dunbar involved?

Where did the idea for this story originate?

“Where a crime is coolly premeditated, then the means of covering it are coolly premeditated also.”

A ‘locked room’ mystery without the room.

Find out more at the next meeting, held chez Wood at 7:00 on Tuesday, June 1. For more info, contact the “Consulting Detective”

“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”

Come judge for yourselves the next mystery for discussion as we take a closer look at “The Three Garridebs”

The meeting will take place, once again, chez Wood on May 4th at 7:00 pm.

New members are always welcome. If you would like to attend a meeting of the Stormy Petrels, please contact your Consulting Detective.