Here’s another illustration, Sherlock is pondering after the events of Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ in Neil’s story, he dwells on the fact that this question is
‘… not a three pipe problem. I suspect it was something approaching a three hundred pipe problem’
Gary wanted to show the reader Sherlock’s, and Neil’s, inspiration for ‘The Case of Death and Honey’, which lay at the heart of ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’. At first, we tried using the notion of rejuvenation, however, in the story the professor merely becomes empowered by an animalistic urge, he became strengthened but also wild. This image took quite a bit of time for Gary to feel was right, he actually ended up with a classic iconic image of a younger Holmes…
