[gurps] Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency

[Abrigon Gusiq]

Hum, ideas for an agency or just a drop box for some to send 
their needs for help? An idea for a new TV program or for an 
agency in a low power game?

A referal service for a real agency or someone who uses the 
letters to solve things or what? A letter drop service, much 
like writing to North Pole Alaska and wanting Santa Clause to 
give them gifts. But instead the parents are told what their kid 
wants, or a group like "Make a Wish" do what they can to help 
the writer?

Mike

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>From Norm Hinton:
A little more on  Holmes -- a bank occupied the  block in which 
Holmes'
221B Baker Street would have been found, had it existed.  The 
bank got
so much mail addressed to Mr. SHelock Holmes that it hired a 
secrtetary
to deal with it.  Here are some of her reminiscence about having 
been,as
it were, Sherlock Holmes' secretary:

>  ''Mr. Holmes has been asked to help with Watergate and 
> Irangate, to solve
the murder of Olaf Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister, and find 
lost
homework
to prove to the teacher that the student really did it. ''Many 
people
don't ask
for anything in particular. They just want to know what Mr. 
Holmes is
doing now
or where he is and they hope he is well. And many people know 
he's not
real and
write tongue in cheek. But some people haven't worked it out. 
The
stories were
written in the late 1800's and early 1900's and Mr. Holmes would 
be 136
years
old now, so it's unlikely that he'd still be living here.''

> Letters sometimes call for personal responses. A voter in the 
> United States wrote last
ar that he was frustrated by what he viewed as ''incompetent''
Presidential candidates,
said Miss Caparn, and called on the investigator to ''come and 
do the
job himself.''
>
> The secretary wrote back that Mr. Holmes appreciated the offer 
> and the fact that the
United States had looked to England for a leader but, alas, he 
was too
old to travel.
One man wrote that the only dispute he and his wife had ever had 
was
over whether
Sherlock Holmes had actually existed. The writer wanted the 
argument
settled, even
if it ended in divorce.