In the year 1903 the exact moment is now lost to history - Sherlock Holmes proclaimed to the world he was quitting Englands Capital to go into retirement on a small, wind-swept farm in the Sussex South Downs. His shocked comrade-in-arms Dr. John H. Watson was later to write, The decision took me utterly by surprise. I thought I had become an institution around Holmes, like his Stradivarius, or the old, oily black clay pipe and his index books. Reluctantly Watson wrote up three recent cases yet unpublished and returned to his medical practice. Holmes retirement didnt last long. Once more his faithful Amanuensis Watson took