One Ghost Need Apply: The Adventure of Sherlock’s Spirit
“This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.” —Sherlock Holmes, in “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” Sherlock Holmes lives! Against the author of this article’s every theory and belief, Holmes clings steadfast to life, in the TVCU. No-one has seen him since the 80s, since his final retirement to the hardier bees of Tibetan climes, but we have every reason to suspect his royal jelly keeps him hale against the wind, and his mind keen enough to pierce those mysteries that remain to him. But he died once. And dying tends to leave ghosts. 1891—"The Final Problem"; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Everyone knows the story. The detective and the mathematician climbed a great hill; the mathematician had a great fall. The detective, for his part, clambered up the mountain and slipped far away, to the east, until time came to return. The world believ...
