I have just started reading a book of Sherlock Holmes stories written by people who aren’t Sir A. Conan Doyle. The first one contains the proposition that a coal fire of the sort enjoyed by Holmes & Dr. Watson would ‘hiss and spit’.
My own experience of coal fires, and that of other people who would know, is that they don’t. Which leaves me wondering what other bits of fiction about life in Victorian times the book will have to offer.
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