The Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional case.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
Untold Story
- Dr. Watson mentioned the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca as a Sherlock Holmes' famous case of 1895. An inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of his Holiness the Pope. (BLAC, 5)
In this memorable year '95 a curious and incongruous succession of cases had engaged his attention, ranging from his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca - an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of his Holiness the Pope - down to his arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East End of London. Close on the heels of these two famous cases came the tragedy of Woodman's Lee, and the very obscure circumstances which surrounded the death of Captain Peter Carey. - Watson
