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A Series Campaign · Door A: The Persistent World

The Sherlock Holmes Collection

Two stories. One persistent world. Every choice receipted.

A fog-shrouded Victorian London street, gaslight glowing in the mist

The Collection

A Study in Scarlet (1887) · The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

In the first, Watson meets Holmes in a London laboratory and a murder at Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road, becomes their first case together. The second sends them to the Devon moor. Fifteen years apart in publication; the same two men, the same address, the same method. The campaign does not treat these as two separate books. It treats them as one world, shown across two volumes.

The Persistent Canon band below proves it with receipts: verbatim Doyle, one from each book, for every entity that carries across.

The Canon Graph at Work

Persistent Canon

Four entities stable across both stories. Two receipts each. Zero drift.

Sherlock Holmes, Victorian engraving
Books 1 & 2

Sherlock Holmes

Consulting detective, 221B Baker Street

Books 1 & 2

Dr. John H. Watson

Army surgeon, chronicler, Baker Street lodger

Books 1 & 2

221B Baker Street

The operations room; unchanged 1887 to 1902

Books 1 & 2

Inspector Lestrade

Scotland Yard; quick, capable, outpaced

Book One

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887

A gaslit Victorian terrace at night, No. 3 Lauriston Gardens
A Study in Scarlet
Lauriston Gardens Brixton Road, 1881
Jefferson Hope, Victorian engraving

Jefferson Hope

The avenger

American frontiersman; the killer with a twenty-year vendetta

John Ferrier, Victorian engraving

John Ferrier

The patriarch

Utah settler; adopted Lucy; destroyed by the Council

Enoch Drebber, Victorian engraving

Enoch Drebber

The victim

Found dead in Lauriston Gardens; his past caught him

Lucy Ferrier, Victorian engraving

Lucy Ferrier

The tragic heart

Rescued in the desert; the engine of the whole story

Canon annotation · Setup → Payoff

RACHE

Five letters scrawled in blood on the wall at Lauriston Gardens. Lestrade reads them as a woman’s name. Holmes reads them as the German for revenge, a deliberate blind. The killer confesses the rest in Part II.

Book Two

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

A phosphorescent hound emerging from Dartmoor fog
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Grimpen Mire Dartmoor
Sir Henry Baskerville, Victorian engraving

Sir Henry Baskerville

The heir

Canadian; refuses to be managed; used as bait

Dr. Mortimer, Victorian engraving

Dr. Mortimer

The herald

Brought the case to Baker Street; withheld one fact

Beryl Stapleton, Victorian engraving

Beryl Stapleton

The captive witness

Beryl Garcia; his wife, not his sister; closed the case

Canon annotation · The reveal

Phosphorus

The family curse is a real dog. Watson identifies the supernatural glow at the novel’s climax with a single touch and a single word. The cover and the social pack are both built around this sentence.

Series Launch Trailer

A sixty-second film across both worlds

Series Trailer

Gaslit Brixton Road → Windswept Dartmoor → the same two men

Concept staged

Series Social Pack

Posts built from the method, not the legend

Concept staged

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