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Was Mycroft "his brother of the country" Who's this brother of the country of Holmes

#1 User is offline   Sonata

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Posted 24 March 2009 - 09:48 AM

I don't know whether this has been discussed before, but I got confused and decided to put forward my question.

In The Resident Patient Watson said Holmes sometimes "turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country".

And who's this brother of the country. Mycroft was living in London, to be precise, in Pall Mall, as mentioned in The Greek Interpretor. Of course he wasn't living in the country, although with ancestors as country squires.

Is it just some mistake or immature thoughts of Conan?
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 09:51 AM

QUOTE (Sonata @ Mar 24 2009, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I don't know whether this has been discussed before, but I got confused and decided to put forward my question.

In The Resident Patient Watson said Holmes sometimes "turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country".

And who's this brother of the country. Mycroft was living in London, to be precise, in Pall Mall, as mentioned in The Greek Interpretor. Of course he wasn't living in the country, although with ancestors as country squires.

Is it just some mistake or immature thoughts of Conan?



Not a literal brother of Holmes Sonata, but a phrase to indicate that Holmes also tracked down villains who practised their deeds in the country just as fellow villains did in towns and cities.
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 09:55 AM

QUOTE (lymelight @ Mar 24 2009, 10:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Not a literal brother of Holmes Sonata, but a phrase to indicate that Holmes also tracked down villains who practised their deeds in the country just as fellow villaind did in towns and cities.

Yup. That's what it means
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 10:01 AM

I see. The brother of evil-doer of the town, not of Holmes. I was misled by a false translation version in Chinese earlier...
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 10:04 AM

QUOTE (Sonata @ Mar 24 2009, 04:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I see. The brother of evil-doer of the town, not of Holmes. I was misled by a false translation version in Chinese earlier...



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