Sherlock Holmes' Deductions by Clue

If a woman's sleeves both have the trace of a double line a little above the wrist, and the traces are across the wrist's broadest part, the woman must work as a

If five livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, are printed on someone's wrist they have been

If there are six almost parallel cuts on someone's shoe, he must have

If a man smells of iodoform, and he has a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger as well as a bulge on the right side of his top-hat, he must work as a

If a man has a fish tattoo whose scales are stained a delicate pink, he must have been in this country.

If a man of great agility has left diminutive footmarks of naked feet, which are — clear, well defined, perfectly formed, but scarce half the size of those of an ordinary man, showing his toes have never been fettered by boots, and he has used a stone-headed wooden mace as well as small poisoned darts, he must be native to these islands.

If an A is printed somewhat after the German fashion, the man who wrote it must not be of this nationality.

If someone's shoes have slight roughening of the side of the sole, he must use this for transportation.

If someone has spatulate finger-ends and a spirituality about his face, he must work as a

If a steady, respectable, middle-aged man has a great blue anchor tattooed on the back of his hand, a military carriage, regulation side whiskers, and by the way in which he holds his head and swings his cane, some amount of self importance and a certain air of command, he has worked as a