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...brother Mycroft catches me in an intellectual trap...
...corpulent genius, Nero Wolfe. Like Holmes, Wolfe is coolly intellectual, fanatically thorough and precise, brilliantly epigrammatic; he is also a crotchety bachelor, gastronome, flower fancier and born actor. There is even a family resemblance between the two, considering Wolfe's physical likeness to Holmes' brother Mycroft...
...SHERLOCK HOLMES," THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS - August Derleth-Mycroft & Moron...
...pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull. Five orange pips lay on one table. On another stood a porcelain Hound of the Baskervilles. The guests raised their glasses, drank to Holmesian characters and places-"To THE Woman," "To Mrs. Hudson," "To Mycroft." Along with place cards, women guests found Holmesian cryptograms-a single red rose and a mysterious note: "Dear Miss -, See you at 2216. Sincerely, John H. Watson." In one corner Author Christopher Morley, in a hunting cap, peered at a sardine through a magnifying glass (see cut) and chatted with...
...Mycroft Holmes, a member of the Diogenes Club and a mysterious but invaluable attache at the Foreign Office, was even smarter than Sherlock, whom he assisted in "The Greek Interpreter...