Art in the Blood. Bonnie Macbird
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rel="nofollow" href="#u68af1c37-a56c-5a4e-8dcf-e7454850e277">Chapter 2: En Route
Part Three: The Lines Are Drawn
Chapter 9: L’Artiste en Danger
Chapter 10: Mlle la Victoire’s Story
Chapter 11: Baker Street Irregularities
Chapter 17: In the Bosom of the Family
Chapter 22: A Terrible Mistake
Chapter 24: Watson Investigates
Chapter 28: The Winged Victory
During the Olympic summer of 2012, while researching some Victorian medical information at the Wellcome Library, I chanced upon a discovery so astounding that it completely altered my course. After requesting several old volumes, I was brought a small, dusty selection, some so fragile that they were held together by delicate linen ribbons.
Untying the largest, a treatise on the usage of cocaine, I discovered a thick sheaf of folded and yellowed papers had been tied to the back.
I opened the pages carefully and spread them before me. The handwriting was strangely familiar. Was I seeing clearly? I turned back the cover of the book; on