The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Setting & Symbolism

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Objects/Places

Scotland Yardappears in All

The London police department at the time of these tales. Originally, Sir Peel founded the city's police services in 1829, but by the time of the Sherlock Holmes stories the police are located at Scotland Yard in the Whitehall district of London.

Opium Denappears in The Man with the Twisted Lip

A Legal institution in Victorian England, the opium den was a place, not unlike a bar for opium, where users of the narcotic could go to buy and use opium. Usually located in bad parts of town.

Berylappears in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

Gems made from beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate. An emerald is a green Beryl, though there are many different other types of this rare and precious mineral.

Bohemiaappears in A Scandal in Bohemia

A kingdom in what is now the Czech Republic, Bohemia at the time of the story was ruled by a hereditary, ethnically German, king.

Klu Klux Klanappears in The Five Orange Pips

An American terrorist and protection organization formed by six civil war veterans in...
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