âDie Bruce Partington Pläneâ (âThe Bruce Partington Plansâ)
Sherlock Holmes: Erich Schellow Dr. John H. Watson: Paul Edwin Roth Mrs. Hudson: Manja Kafka
Holmes: âCongratulations! This is the Aldgate station exactly to the scale.â Watson: âIâm glad you like it. This is worth the effort. Perhaps you can recommend me to the stationmaster as his assistant.â Holmes: âIt depends from your driving skills. So letâs start. Letâs suppose the turnout is already set. You pull the train with moderate speed over the turnout through the curve. It shall stop exactly at the station.â Watson: âPerhaps we should have invited a train driver.â Holmes: âDeparture!â Watson: âWhy? I don't drive yet.â Holmes: âPrecisely. Thatâs your fault. Go! Departure! Excellent. What did you observe?â Watson: âNothing at all. It took all my effort that the train didn't derail.â Holmes: âPrecisely. The turnout and the curve follow one another so directly so that a considerable tug results. Put this little doll on the roof of one of the wagons.â Watson: âA rather unusual seat for a passenger. Don't you think so?â Holmes: âSome people cannot choose their seats anymore. And now the same once again from the beginning. Go! It could have been like that.â Watson: âI donât understand why the murder victim climbed on to the roof of the wagon.â Holmes: âAnd whatâs if the man died elsewhere and his corpse was put on the roof.â Watson: âThere is something to this. Maybe it was the reason why he had no ticket.â Holmes: âCorrect. And because he was already dead for a while we found no blood at the scene of accident. The corpse must have been put on the roof between this curve and the previous one.â Watson: âClear as daylight, because it falls down at every curve because of the centrifugal force. And this also goes for corpses on the ...â Holmes: âRoofs ...â Watson: â ... of wagons." Holmes: âSo we only have to observe the straight section between these two curves. This route is long. 297 yards.â Watson: "Clear as daylight.â Hudson: âThe child in the man. Don't you have anything better to do, Sir?â Holmes: âYes, I have, Mrs. Hudson. Weâll buy some more dolls so that the wagons are not so empty. Come along, Watson!â Hudson: âWhether this turns out well in the long run?â













