Floral Street

Originally called Hart Street, Floral Street is a street located near Covent Garden in London. It changed its name in 1895. In the eighteenth century, the street housed a number of pubs and illegal brothels.

Appendix: Family Tree

SPOILER ALERT:  Readers wishing to avoid "spoilers" should not consult this document before reading A Mystery in Scarlet, chapter XXIX (London Miscellany no. 10).

 

This family tree illustrates the relationships between the major historical and fictional characters that appear in A Mystery in Scarlet. It also reveals the dynastic ties that link these characters to other Stuart and Hanover historical figures, informing the usurpation plot.

 

 

 

Bow Street

Bow Street is a street in Westminster, Central London. It was home to the Bow Street Runners, a voluntary police force, established in 1750. From 1740, the Bow Street Magistrate’s Court was located on the street.

Ghent

Ghent is a city in the region of Flanders in northern Belgium. In 1539 it was the site of the Revolt of Ghent against the Holy Roman Emperor. The city was a center of the Belgian textile industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Sovetsk

Sovetsk is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia on the Baltic coast. The town is located on the south bank of the Neman river.

A Mystery in Scarlet: No. 1 (February 10, 1866)

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