Lyndsay Faye - Dust and Shadow

I would like to thank the New York City restaurant Osteria Laguna for firing me, leading to a series of events without which I would never have written this book.

Finally, thank you, Gabriel. You inspire me. Your willingness to expand the realm of the possible makes me fight all the harder. Thank you for believing in this book.

*The group of street urchins often employed by Holmes to elicit information.

*William Burke and William Hare sold the corpses of their seventeen victims to Edinburgh Medical College between 1827 and 1828. The murders led to the legalization of obtaining cadavers by other means.

*At the time, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, whose actions during the “Bloody Sunday” riot in Trafalgar Square in 1887 were much deplored by liberals.

*Latin, “She flies with her own wings.”

*A glass of gin.

*To “voker Romeny” was to speak the language of London’s destitute, also known as Thieves’ Cant, which Sherlock Holmes would likely have employed very often in a professional capacity.

*A sovereign; Holmes is offering her as much again if she meets them at the rendezvous point.

*Lozenges used to freshen the breath.

*Heavy, polluted fog.

*Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist whose work in the fields of hypnosis and hysteria broke new ground in the burgeoning field of psychology. Sigmund Freud studied under him in 1885.

*Penned by Carl Wernicke, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, respectively.

*It is gratifying to note that Dr. Watson is able to describe him in “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” (dated 1897) as “Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street,” suggesting his practice later met with considerable success.

*The striped band around a policeman’s cuff was for many years a mark of identification.

*Sherlock Holmes perfected his formula for identifying the presence of hemoglobin on the same afternoon that he was introduced to Dr. Watson by their mutual acquaintance Stamford. Holmes was at the time searching for someone to go halves with him on a suite of rooms in Baker Street.

*More commonly, formaldehyde.

*Term originated by Jean Hippolyte Michon, 1871. Graphology would not be studied in England for many years to come.

*Latin, “Nothing stands in our way.”

*Dr. Watson records these circumstances under the title “A Scandal in Bohemia.”

*Opium poppy.

*Dr. Watson did indeed serve in the Battle of Maiwand, returning to England after having been severely wounded in action.

*Inspector Frederick Abberline was heavily involved in the Ripper investigation and was ultimately promoted to the position of chief inspector in 1890.

*A thin linen cloth.

*Recorded by Dr. Watson in the novel A Study in Scarlet.

*“There is no disputing taste.”

*The treatments for feminine hysteria were varied, but many were highly sexual in nature.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Lyndsay Faye

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8362-2

ISBN-10: 1-4165-8362-9

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