Monsieur Vernet/Mr. Holmes

 

“My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”
                         

--Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

Monsieur Vernet, coming soon in The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter.

27A Wimpole

 Shaw's inspiration for the home of Henry Higgins:

"Much like the fictional professor of phonetics, who famously lived on the same Marylebone street, the property's original owner, Professor Horace Wilson, was a linguistics expert." --The Daily Mail

For Writers: Rubik

 

Think of your story as a Rubik's Cube (though each story has a different method of solving, so you can't just memorize one), but you've got to keep twisting and turning and observing the results from every angle. There is one correct solution for each story, one which is satisfying, so don't be afraid to scrap your progress and start all over again.

What Wiggins Vowed

Corner of Tottenham Court Road, where Watson searches for news of Eliza.

              --The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle