sketchbook: the blue carbuncle part 1

It is my BIRTHDAY and I bring you another unseasonable, cozy Christmas story (the original is short and very charming)…with a few changes made to canon.

Continued below, but stopping for a small history lesson - Oscar Wilde would give engraved silver cigarette cases to his many lovers (rumor had it he ordered them in batch and got them engraved whenever he met a new guy). But in the Sherlock Holmes canon, the silver cigarette case has a different meaning...which I will not spoil if you don't recognize it :)

Also - I stole Holmes’s posing from this iconic Paget illustration:

Maps pulled from this website I found that overlays old maps onto google maps, where I will certainly be spending a lot of time perusing Victorian London…

To be continued!