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[edit] Discussion

Stephen Sondheim wrote a rather risque song, "I Never Do Anything Twice," for an adaptation of this story, but I don't know if it was for the movie or for an unproduced Broadway play -- any info? Aristophanes68 03:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I read this book some years ago; I think pretty much at the end they go by train after some evil guys - as far as I remember they start from vienna, towards germany; they mention a stop in Bad Ischl, but taking today's railway they'd come nowhere near it ... maybe someone wants to check? (clem 18:01, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC))

It's really quite good, tho the movie is more "Sigmund Frued's Adventure costarring Holmes". (It's got the great line, "Tell them I was murdered by my mathematics tutor. They'll never believe you in any case.") It also seems to me to've pioneered a "revisionist" (not a word I like here) approach; Matt Frewer plays Holmes in at leaast one film that "reinterprets" a couple of canon stories, joining them into one, where Irene Adler is a master spy. It's an intriguing approach... Trekphiler 18:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Literary significance & criticism

This section is way too POV without any citations. Clarityfiend 16:18, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seven-per-cent of what?

To what solution does the title refer? -Toptomcat 22:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

A solution of 7% cocaine and 93% saline solution. -- Beardo 00:46, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to drag the book out, but if I recall correctly Moriarty was not the mother's lover. He was the one who told Holmes what had happened. A shoot the messenger sort of thing. Someone with more energy than me can look it up.

Correct. I'll change it. Mdiamante 11:21, 7 July 2007 (UTC)