title: Sherlock Holmes: Back in London
author:  Philip J. Carraher 
description: Philip J. Carraher is the author of many well-reviewed books of various genres, including mystery, fantasy, suspense and romance.
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  # The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
  
  
  ### Guy Boothby
  
  
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  To the reflective mind the rapidity with which the inhabitants of
  
  
  the world's greatest city seize upon a new name or idea and familiarise
  
  
  themselves with it, can scarcely prove otherwise than astonishing. As
  
  
  an illustration of my meaning let me take the case of Klimo—the now
  
  
  famous private detective, who has won for himself the right to be
  
  
  considered as great as Lecocq, or even the late lamented Sherlock
  
  
  Holmes.
  
  
  Up to a certain morning London had never even heard his name, nor
  
  
  had it the remotest notion as to who or what he might be. It was as
  
  
  sublimely ignorant and careless on the subject as the inhabitants of
  
  
  Kamtchaika or Peru. Within twenty-four hours