The Fairmont Confession
Matthew Booth
When I look over these accounts of my tempestuous life with Sherlock Holmes which I have laid before the public, I see that I have had cause to mention the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894. It was a year which had special significance for both Holmes and me. For him, who loathed any form of inactivity or any era during which his powers of observation and deduction were not taxed by some mystery or other, it meant a heavy period of work with which he could exercise those powers. For me, nothing gave me greater pleasure than to become engaged in each of those strange enquiries which as a collective formed one of the busiest years of our partnership. Among those cases was our analysis of the circumstances surroun
