“Mr. Henry Wood, I believe?” — an illustration (1892) by Sidney Paget for Arthur Conan Doyle's “Adventure of the Crooked Man,” p. 279. Photographic reproduction of pen and ink. Is Doyle intentionally reminding us of the novels of Mrs. Henry Wood, author of popular sensation novels? Click on image to enlarge it.
Passage illustrated
"Mr. Henry Wood, late of India, I believe," said Holmes, affably. "I've come over this little matter of Colonel Barclay's death."
"What should I know about that?"
"That's what I want to ascertain. You know, I suppose, that unless the matter is cleared up, Mrs. Barclay, who is an old friend of yours, will in all probability be tried for murder."
The man gave a violent start.
"I don't know who you are," he cried, "nor how you come to know what you do know, but will you swear that this is true that you tell me?"
"Why, they are only waiting for her to come to her senses to arrest her."
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Bibliography
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. “Reproduced from the original publication in The Strand Magazine with the classic illustrations by Sidney Paget.” Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, [after 1954]. Internet Archive version of a copy donated by Friends of the San Francisco Library. Web.
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