#violet smith

Grand finale for the vampire aquarium date!!

✨The Queens of the Canon ✨

Kitty Winter ⭐ Violet Smith

Holmes and I have been involved in many adventures which are unlikely, for a variety of reasons, to see the light of publication.  Perhaps the most singular of these was the extraordinary case of the fiendish Norbury and the Giant Rat of Sumatra.  In that instance, we received aid from a most unexpected source at a moment when our situation was indeed dire, and the terrifying rodent was expertly dispatched by a remarkable feline that had once been the property of the cruel stepfather of one of our fair saviours.  

My friend Holmes has, in the past, described women as inscrutable and untrustworthy.  I have not heard him do so of late.

"My friend took the lady's ungloved hand and examined it with as close an attention as as little sentiment as a scientist would show to a specimen"

Also Holmes on the very same page when Violet Smith mentions her fiancee:

"'Oh, Cyril is his name!' Said Holmes, smiling"

What is this man who, according to Watson, goes from a cold scientist to one that teases young lady's about their love life lol

violet (yes, one of the six violets in the canon) smith takes on a live-in music teaching position in the country for her un-married employers' (carruthers) ten year old daughter. the daughter is mentioned once in the entire story, during violet's exposition at 221b. violet goes back to the country with no further mention of the girl. after the ruckus and holmes/watson's intervention, carruthers and the others get arrested and taken to jail. off the father goes without making any inquiry into the fate of his daughter nor does violet comment on it.

now the granada episode (which i'm rather fond of) seals up this plot hole, simply and sweetly, by having violet and her soon-to-be husband look after the daughter while her father's in jail. but that doesn't happen in the story. which leads me to wonder...considering the lack of attention by violet or carruthers, did she run away or die (i say, very tongue in cheek)? did carruthers just say fuck them kids and abandon her?

or my personal favorite, did he hire a random 10 year old girl for this express purpose? given the absolute chaos and ever-unfolding half-baked schemes concocted by every member of carruthers and co, i can imagine those men coming up with something that ridiculous.