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About the Author: Roelof Goudriaan is a publisher (Belgium Publishing House Verschijnsel), an editor (Dutch weird magazine Wonderwaan and Irish SF Magazine Albedo One), translator and writer. Jaap Boekestein is an editor (Dutch weird magazine Wonderwaan) and writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror and thrillers.
Many cases I have described have proven the extraordinary perceptiveness of my dear friend Sherlock Holmes and his ability to deduct from the most minute of clues a series of events or the description of a person. These were often spectacular cases, where heinous criminals were unmasked by the shrewd intellect of my companion. At the request of Holmes, I have refrained from reporting some of the more sensational cases. These contain events which are widely known to the general public and Holmes is not the man who seeks pompous self-glorification.
Certain other things which I have heard from the mouth of Holmes, I will not repeat for the sake of discretion. Let it suffice to say that on several occasions, Holmes has provided services to various royal dynasties in Europe.
A third category consists of cases that were truly bizarre; even after all these years I shiver when I recall some details. The case of the masticated hand clearly belongs to this category. Maybe it was the second most gruesome start of an investigation that Sherlock Holmes ever conducted.
The fall of 188- was cold and rainy, and the day this case started was no different. In the hearth of our Baker Street rooms burned a vigorous coal fire. I was engrossed in my newspaper and Holmes sat on the sofa, wrapped in his dressing gown while smoking his favorite pear wood pipe. It was one of those periods where Holmes was subject to profound inertia and needed something extraordinary to wake him from his slumber.
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