A Study in Violin

Shot taken in the sitting room of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221b Baker Street, London.


"Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee. Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him, but whether the music aided those thoughts, or whether the playing was simply the result of a whim or fancy was more than I could determine."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet