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-'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|The Book of the Enemy]]''.
+'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the [[2018 (releases)|2018]] ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' anthology ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|The Book of the Enemy]]''. It was written by [[Andrew Hickey]] and preceded by ''[[Pre-narrative Briefings (short story)|Pre-narrative Briefing C]]''.
 == Summary ==
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 * [[Sherlock Holmes]]
 * [[Martian ambassador (The Book of the Enemy)|Martian ambassador]]
+* [[Startled gentleman (The Book of the Enemy)|Startled gentleman]]
+* [[Stout man (The Book of the Enemy)|Stout man]]
 == References ==
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 == Notes ==
 * The author published a list of references in the story.<ref>[https://andrewhickey.info/2018/03/08/references-in-my-book-of-the-enemy-story/ References in my Book of the Enemy story]</ref>
-** The framing story with "the club's oldest member" was borrowed from [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s stories.
+** The framing story was borrowed from [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s stories about the "{{w|Oldest Member (character)|Oldest Member}}".
+** The narrator recalls [[John Watson|Watson]]'s stories about Holmes' "excursion across the moors" (''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'') and his "wrestling match on a precipice" (''{{w|The Final Problem}}''). He also mentions Holmes' assistance to "[[Pope]]s" (''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') and an address in [[Belgravia]] (''[[Sherlock|A Scandal in Belgravia]]'').
 ** The hypothetical about a man named Reginald who served [[kipper]]s was a reference to Wodehouse's character {{w|Jeeves}}.
-** The men in the [[British Museum]]'s [[Select Manuscript Room]] -- the one who spilled his papers, and the one who helped collect them -- are Dunning and Karsell from {{w|M.R. James}}' ''{{w|Casting the Runes}}''.
+** As noted in the story itself, [[Ruritania]] and King [[Rudolf (The Book of the Enemy)|Rudolf]] originated from ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]''.
-** The narrator recalls [[John Watson|Watson]]'s stories about Holmes' "excursion across the moors" (''{{w|The Hound of the Baskervilles}}'') and "wrestling match on a precipice" (''{{w|The Final Problem}}'').
+** The men in the [[British Museum]]'s [[Select Manuscript Room]] – the [[startled gentleman (The Book of the Enemy)|startled gentleman]] who spilled his papers, and the [[stout man (The Book of the Enemy)|stout man]] who helped collect them – are Dunning and Karswell from {{w|M.R. James}}' ''{{w|Casting the Runes}}''.
-** Imagery is borrowed from [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s work and the novel ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
+** The account of the [[Martian invasion of Earth]] is designed to be consistent with [[H. G. Wells]]'s ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' and [[Simon Bucher-Jones]]' ''[http://www.lulu.com/shop/simon-bucher-jones/charles-dickens-martian-notes/paperback/product-22654220.html Charles Dickens' Martian Notes.]''
-** History remembered the [[Martian embassy]] as being burned down in the {{w|siege of Sidney Street}}.
+** Holmes' comment about "continental orchestra" is a reference to [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s complaints about how "British orchestras tuned their instruments to a higher pitch than continental Europeans did".
-** The account of the [[Martian invasion of Earth]] was inspired by [[H. G. Wells]]'s ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' and influenced by the anthology editor [[Simon Bucher-Jones]]' novel ''Charles' Dickens' Martian Notes''.
+** The mentions of "squamous cephalopodic beasts" and "non-Euclidean geometry" are references to [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s work; the attribution of [[Albert Einstein]]'s discoveries to [[James Moriarty|Moriarty]] is a reference to the description of his text ''[[On the Dynamics of an Asteroid|The Dynamics of an Asteroid]]'' in ''{{w|The Valley of Fear}}''.
-* The story was preceded in the anthology by ''[[Pre-narrative Briefings (short story)|Pre-narrative Briefing C]]''.
+** The mention of "demons trapped in pyramids" is a reference to ''[[The Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|The Pyramids of Mars]]''.
+** The "mock [[turtle]] soup and [[dodo]]s' egg" are a reference to the novel ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
+** History remembered the [[Martian embassy]] as being burned down in the {{w|siege of Sidney Street}}. The siege was mentioned and compared to the Holmes novel ''{{w|The Red-Headed League}}'' in {{w|Ronald Knox}}'s essay [http://www.diogenes-club.com/studies.htm ''Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes'',] which first applied the idea of "[[canon]]" to works of fiction.
+** The phrase "every trace of romance" was intended to be a reference to [[Lawrence Miles]]' novel ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]''.
 == Continuity ==
 * Tom dreams of [[Sutekh|demons]] trapped in [[pyramid]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'')
-* Sherlock Holmes helped a [[Pope]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]''.
+* Sherlock Holmes aided a [[Pope]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]''.
 * [[James Moriarty]] discovered that non-[[Euclidean geometry]] best describes [[spacetime]]; this discovery was attributed to [[Albert Einstein]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')