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The House of Silk

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The House of Silk	comment	The House of Silk is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published on 1st November 2011 and was officially commissioned and authorised by the Doyle Estate.Sherlock is dead, and Watson is old and alone. Only now can he write down one of the darkest and most disturbing cases the duo ever investigated. What starts with one seemingly banal case, develops sudden complications and becomes a much more complicated riddle, in the centre of which stands the mysterious House of Silk.
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The House of Silk / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The House of Silk / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Holmes when he realizes he put Ross in harm's way.
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The House of Silk / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The House of Silk / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The Holmes canon certainly had quite a few depraved murderers and even a rapist, but not a pedophile ring..
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The House of Silk / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The House of Silk / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Catherine Carstairs had one carefully planned for her husband, although we don't discover what the plan was.
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The House of Silk / int_2461166d	type	All Gays Are Pedophiles
The House of Silk / int_2461166d	comment	All Gays Are Pedophiles: An unfortunate association made by the ringleader, comparing the practices of the Ancient Greeks and Persians with, well, child prostitution.
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The House of Silk / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The House of Silk / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Holmes gets framed for a murder halfway through the story.
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The House of Silk / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The House of Silk / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Even Moriarty draws the line at child prostitution, and gives Holmes and Watson information necessary to crack the case. The man who murdered Ross says he didn't particularly enjoy beating him to death.
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The House of Silk / int_3a75895a	type	Burn the Orphanage
The House of Silk / int_3a75895a	comment	Burn the Orphanage: Once all the legal formalities are done, Watson as good as admits that Holmes burned down the Orphanage of Fear.
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The House of Silk / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The House of Silk / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Used several times, not surprisingly. For example, at the very beginning of the book Holmes deduces that Watson has recently fired his servant, that his wife is not at home, and that he missed his train, all from a quick scan of his appearance.
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The House of Silk / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
The House of Silk / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Eliza and Catherine Carstairs hate each other, the former accusing the latter of being a Gold Digger taking advantage of her dear innocent brother, the latter endures her constant criticisms and thinks Eliza's too used to being able to boss around her brother. It turns out Eliza was right, but her "dear innocent brother" isn't any better.
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The House of Silk / int_59b571c	type	Destroy the Abusive Home
The House of Silk / int_59b571c	comment	Destroy the Abusive Home: At the end of the story, the orphanage is burned to the ground. Watson mentions that Holmes had been out alone that night, and came back smelling of smoke.
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The House of Silk / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
The House of Silk / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: The Carstairs' marriage. She is an ex-criminal who swore vengeance on the man who was partly responsible for bringing down her gang and her beloved twin brother, and did so by marrying him, murdering his mother and trying to kill his sister as well as a detective, he's a pedophile and indirectly ordered the murder of his victim. Even Holmes comments on how well-suited they are for each other.
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The House of Silk / int_5d4d0c42	type	Northern Irish and Nasty
The House of Silk / int_5d4d0c42	comment	Northern Irish And Nasty: Although the plot takes place long before The Troubles, the O'Donoghue twins fit this trope, since it's mentioned they are from (and their mother still lives in) Belfast.
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The House of Silk / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The House of Silk / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: The Big Bad assures Holmes that he has too much photographic evidence of his rich and famous clients to be prosecuted. Sure enough, he's killed in prison.
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The House of Silk / int_778f3f85	type	Baker Street Regular
The House of Silk / int_778f3f85	comment	Baker Street Regular: Holmes's reliance on them gets deconstructed when Ross, one of the irregulars, gets killed, brutally, because they took a mission.
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The House of Silk / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The House of Silk / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Why Watson has hesitated to publish the story because he felt it was too shocking for the public to handle without some years' remove from the actual events.
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The House of Silk / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The House of Silk / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mr. Carstairs, the client. Although not directly a victim, he certainly deserved being blackmailed and threatened, given his frequent visits to a child prostitution ring and arranging for the killing of Ross to cover his involvement.
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The House of Silk / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The House of Silk / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: When Ross was killed, it's first suspected that the person blackmailing Mr. Carstairs was responsible directly or indirectly. At the end of the book, it's revealed that Mr. Carstairs himself had Ross killed to cover up his involvement in a child prostitution ring.
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The House of Silk / int_a0bb0b37	type	Knight Templar Big Brother
The House of Silk / int_a0bb0b37	comment	Knight Templar Big Sister: After Ross disappears, Watson and Holmes go looking for his sister, who becomes enraged and stabs Watson. She thought Watson was from the House of Silk and wanted to take Ross back there.
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The House of Silk / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The House of Silk / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Edmund Carstairs is never prosecuted for his role in events, and returns to his old life with his sister. Watson also considers Catherine this, since although she's spending life in jail, pretty much anyone else in her position would have been executed.
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The House of Silk / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
The House of Silk / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Keelan O'Donoghue turns out to have been Catherine, who disguised herself as a man so she could run a criminal gang with her brother.
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The House of Silk / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
The House of Silk / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Holmes gets framed for the murder of Ross's older sister halfway through the story while investigating the House of Silk.
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The House of Silk / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The House of Silk / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: A gang of robbers ruins an art dealer's paintings → a child prostitution ring.
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The House of Silk / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The House of Silk / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Watson goes into some detail in the way he hides a prison key and a coded message inside a book for Holmes. Not only does he not get the chance to use it, Holmes had already escaped.
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The House of Silk / int_cf7fafbb	type	Orphanage of Love
The House of Silk / int_cf7fafbb	comment	Orphanage of Love: What the Chorley Grange House for Boys looks like at a first glance. It's actually an Orphanage of Fear that supplies young boys to rich pedophiles.
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The House of Silk / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
The House of Silk / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Eliza Carstairs believes her mother's death in an "accidental" gas leak was suicide out of shame at her son marrying Catherine. She was actually murdered as part of Catherine's plan to kill the whole family and inherit their fortune.
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The House of Silk / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The House of Silk / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Lestrade to Holmes about the way he uses his Irregulars.
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