Elementary, my dear

Just what Dr Watson ordered! Use your powers of deduction to crack our detective-themed literary quiz, by Henry Eliot

Each answer gives you a letter. Put them together to spell something that Sherlock Holmes might find curious.

Can you replace the missing words from the titles of these detective novels?

The Long ____

The Moon____

The ____ of the Rose

The Mysterious ____ at Styles A ____ in Scarlet

The ____ in the Rue Morgue

ANSWERS

D G I N O T

Goodbye Name Affair Study Stone Murders

Can you name these actors who have all played Sherlock Holmes?

He had a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling; he had eyes as empty as the North Sea; he had several brown paper parcels, which he was quite incapable of collecting. __

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the welldressed private detective ought to be. __

The inspector was a broad and heavy man. He stood staring at the map with his hands in his pockets and his pipe sticking out the side of his mouth. __

A white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner. __

A stoutly built, steady-looking, sharp-eyed man in black, of about the middle-age. [ …] There is nothing remarkable about him at first sight but his ghostly manner of appearing. __

ANSWERS

E Inspector Bucket

I Inspector Jules Maigret M Miss Marple

T Father Brown

T Philip Marlowe

Henry Eliot is the author of The Penguin Classics Book