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Historical Context: "Be Gay Solve Crime"

Chance or Chess? a BBC Sherlock Podcast

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The Black Mailers

The novel is not explicit, but the obsession Basil and Lord Henry have adorions that gaps in silences around many of Dorian's exploits. Magusan talks about his hand; he says Sherlock has a woman's hand. The Council for the prosecution in the Wild Trials five years later was able to identify the hints at homosexual desire in the novel and connect them. This is another reference to like the West End, Piccadilly Circus and it's just James's Park, etc,. etc.

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