Sherlock Holmes
The Swindon connection to the world's most famous sleuth
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Dined in Swindon:
Sherlock Holmes |
You would, of course, expect the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, to know all about Swindon.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth certainly knew his railway timetable, as he demonstrated in The Boscombe Valley Mystery.
"No, sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the scene of action.
"We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be there in twenty minutes."
