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18
  “considerably less than his” ibid.

19
  “all officers of the police” Gallagher, p. 73.

20
  “Always well dressed” ibid.

21
  “working on small banks” Arrest of Shinburn, p. 11, PA.

22
  “In his residence was found” ibid.

23
  “The arrest of Shinburne is undoubtedly” ibid.

24
  “now obliged to use” ibid.

25
  “a man quiet in manner” ibid.

26
  “lying sick with nervousness” Worth’s Confession, p. 2.

27
  “glorious news” ibid.

28
  “that news had done” ibid.

29
  “A well-known criminal”
Daily Telegraph
, May 11, 1893.

30
  “In a drawer in the prisoner’s” ibid.

31
  “It did not seem possible” Sifakis, p. 471.

32
  “procured several” Asbury, p. 217.

33
  “succeeded in transferring” Sante, p. 211.

34
  “SHE WAS ONCE A BARMAID”
World
, March 21, 1894.

35
  “the older daughters” ibid.

36
  “was already well provided” Bender and Altschul, p. 24.

37
  “squandered … on finery and whims” ibid.

38
  “It is the ambition of the New Yorker” ibid.

39
  “She had lived enough history”
New York Herald
, Aug. 25, 1899.

40
  “handsome, devilish, Hugh Marcy” Rosamund de Zeer Marshall,
Kitty
(London, 1945), p. 180.

41
  “The velvet caress” ibid., p. 175.

42
  “Just call me Tom” ibid., p. 3.

43
  “You are by far the most” ibid., p. 260.

44
  “Zere iss only wan” ibid., p. 132.

45
  “all man” ibid., p. 302.

46
  “I doffed my night robe” ibid., p. 304.

47
  “a lot of effort went” Julie Gilbert,
Opposite Attraction
(New York, 1995), p. 299.

48
  “speak only in Cockney” ibid.

49
  “$3.5 million in domestic” ibid., p. 301.

50
  “Paulette Goddard has worked up”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 1, 1946, quoted in Gilbert, p. 301.

TWENTY-TWO

  
1
  “A Seventeen years mystery”
Pall Mall Gazette
, July 24, 1893.

  
2
  “a man named Marsend”
Globe
, July 28, 1893.

  
3
  “a man of business” ibid.

  
4
  “has confessed with”
Pall Mall Gazette
, July 24, 1893.

  
5
  “they had a clue to the” Undated memo from “McGeorge,” c. July 26, 1893, AA.

  
6
  “in consort” ibid.

  
7
  had given the men ibid.

  
8
  “his principal object” ibid.

  
9
  “Worth has promised”
Pall Mall Gazette
, July 24, 1893.

10
  “He made his entry” ibid.

11
  “Nothing is said in the account”
Midland Daily Telegraph
, July 25, 1893.

12
  “Messrs. Agnew, no doubt”
Bath Herald
, July 26, 1893.

13
  “to worship”
Sun
, July 26, 1893.

14
  “had used the dastard knife” ibid.

15
  “the story may or may not”
Manchester Courier
, July 25, 1893.

16
  “haunted during sleepless nights” ibid.

17
  “unburden his mind” ibid.

18
  “As the felon has been” ibid.

19
  “in the course of the interview”
Globe
, July 28, 1893.

20
  “fits of laughter” ibid.

21
  “It seems certain” ibid.

22
  “I still retain the belief” Robert to William Pinkerton, undated letter, PA.

23
  “Certain newspapers”
Pall Mall Gazette
, July 26, 1893.

24
  “The firm have recently” ibid.

25
  “We could have had the picture” ibid.

26
  “The negotiations for the return” ibid.

27
  “was never engraved” Engen, p. 20.

28
  “There may be some truth”
Sun
, July 26, 1893.

29
  “heard the news with the calm” ibid.

30
  “Mysterious men came to me” ibid.

31
  “made an application to” M. Worrall, memo, Aug. 25, 1893, AA.

32
  “he was Wirth’s associate” Morland Agnew, memo, Aug. 2, 1893, AA.

33
  “or by anybody else” ibid.

34
  “Nothing could be done” M. Worrall, memo, Aug. 25, 1893, AA.

35
  “Undoubtedly the picture” Morland Agnew, memo, Aug. 2, 1893, AA.

36
  “There was nothing to be” ibid.

TWENTY-THREE

  
1
  “through the fingers of the”
Pall Mall Gazette
, July 24, 1893.

  
2
  Even before he definitively introduced Moriarty in “The Final Problem,” the Sherlock Holmes story published in
The Strand Magazine
and
McLure’s Magazine
in December 1893, Conan Doyle appears to have been aware of some of Worth’s exploits. “The Resident Patient,” published in August of that year, refers to the “Worthingdon Bank Gang.”

  
3
  “The original of Moriarty” Vincent Starrett,
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
(London, 1933), pp. 141–42.

  
4
  Dr. Briggs, a well-known physician from St. Louis, was a close friend of Conan Doyle. His quest for the factual origins of Conan Doyle’s writing led him to establish the “real” premises of 221B Baker Street.

  
5
  “The man pervades London” Conan Doyle, “The Final Problem,” in Vol. II, p. 303.

  
6
  “who, in his estimation” C. McCluer Stevens, p. 38.

  
7
  “Fancy the long sustained” Quoted in Dilnot, p. 657; also McCluer Stevens, p. 39.

  
8
  “He is extremely tall and thin” Conan Doyle, “The Final Problem,” in Vol. II, p. 304.

  
9
  “cases of the most varying” ibid., p. 303.

10
  “a very respectable” Conan Doyle,
The Valley of Fear
, in Vol. I, p. 478.

11
  “one million and two hundred” ibid., p. 479.

A painting of a little girl with a lamb attributed to Greuze does exist, but it is titled
Innocence
. A painting of this name was sold at the Paris Pourtales Gallery of Art (Holmes corrupts this to “Portalis”) in 1865 for 100,200 francs, or £4,000. In 1918 it was shown to be a copy of the original
Innocence
by Greuze, now in the Wallace Collection in London. In fact, as
The Times Literary Supplement
noted on July 1, 1960, “the sale room price of a Greuze has never exceeded the 129,000 francs given for ‘Les Oeufs Cassées’ at the Demidoff sale in 1870.”

12
  “young girl with lamb” I am indebted to Charles Higham, who notes this clue in his book
The Adventures of Conan Doyle
(New York, 1976), p. 114.

13
  “It is said that” “The Story of a Picture,”
World
, April 11, 1877.

14
  “shortly after the turn” Wayne G. Broehl,
The Molly Maguires
(Cambridge, Mass., 1964), vi, p. 409.

15
  “almost a paraphrase of” ibid.

16
  “raised the roof when” Interview with Ralph Dudley, 1948, by James Horan, quoted in Horan, p. 499.

17
  “At first he talked” ibid.

18
  “The Worth family name” Bob Robinson,
The Illustrious Convert
, unpublished address to South Carolina Sherlockian group, The Handsome Wheels.

19
  “great criminal” Conan Doyle,
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
, in Vol. II, p. 675.

20
  “violin virtuoso” ibid.

21
  “very dangerous villain” ibid.

22
  “agent in the huge criminal” ibid.

23
  “a slim, flame-like woman” ibid., p. 677.

24
  “lucent top hat” ibid., p. 672.

25
  “more dangerous than” ibid.

26
  “He has expensive tastes” ibid., p. 675.

27
  “who collects women” ibid., p. 678.

28
  “beast-man” ibid., p. 680.

29
  “a real aristocrat” ibid., p. 676.

TWENTY-FOUR

  
1
  “broken in health and”
Adam Worth
, p. 18.

  
2
  “a mental and physical wreck” William to Robert Pinkerton, Feb. 12, 1902, PA.

  
3
  “This is one of the causes” ibid.

  
4
  “The thieves entered the place”
New York Evening Journal
, Nov. 1, 1897.

  
5
  “The shop was considered”
London News
, Nov. 2, 1897.

  
6
  “Fisher did not say” Memo, PA.

  
7
  “He had lost some” Dilnot, p. 661.

  
8
  “The French had begun to” Worth’s Confession, p. 12.

  
9
  “The stuff” ibid.

10
  “a sporting man known”
Adam Worth
, p. 18.

11
  “made a living by the” Dilnot, p. 662.

12
  “controlled the Gainsborough”
Adam Worth
, p. 18.

13
  “the only man he would” Worth’s Confession, p. 1.

14
  “under no circumstances” ibid.

15
  “that I was a nice fellow” ibid.

16
  “He felt sure that there” ibid.

17
  “America’s leading”
Chicago Observer
, cited in Horan, p. 456.

18
  “fondness for animals”
Chicago Tribune
, cited in ibid.

19
  “I am too good” ibid., p. 482.

20
  “Letter awaiting you” Worth’s Confession, p. 1.

21
  “a strange man had called”
Adam Worth
, p. 18.

22
  “Dear Sir,” Quoted in Esterow, pp. 196–97.

23
  “I recognised at once” Worth’s Confession, p. 1.

24
  “On the 12th I received” ibid.

25
  “I wanted him spotted” ibid.

26
  “With the exception” ibid., p. 2.

27
  “had indications of a man” ibid., p. 5.

28
  “I weighed him up carefully” ibid., p. 13.

29
  “Well, I came to see you” ibid., p. 3.

TWENTY-FIVE

  
1
  “in gossiping frame of mind” Worth’s Confession, p. 6.

  
2
  “The Lady should” Horan, p. 316.

  
3
  “I consider this man” ibid., p. 2.

  
4
  “he had always fancied” ibid., p. 7.

  
5
  “a very handsome” ibid., p. 10.

  
6
  “Of course you cannot tell” ibid.

  
7
  “and he said with tears” ibid., p. 8.

  
8
  “He said that he had” ibid., p. 13.

  
9
  “Of course I want to get” ibid.

10
  “The great Supt. Byrnes” ibid., p. 5.

11
  “somebody was faking” ibid., p. 9.

12
  “I asked him how” ibid., p. 12.