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Hey, thanks for the reply, yeah I thought he probably just wanted them back together and wrote her and the practice out real quick lol. Watsons wife is I think called Mary? Or something like that I’m pretty sure, she lives in the house where the crime happened in the sign of four and Watson fell in love with her I think. I can’t really remember, sign of four was the first Sherlock story I read quite a few years ago but I didn’t like it so I never really read the others until I decided to give it another go last year, and I really like them, I skipped over sign of four when I restarted though. yeah I remember the James thing and thinking it was weird but maybe just a nickname for John, twisted lip was in adventures of Sherlock holmes I’m pretty sure, if not it was memoirs, so before empty house. i think Conan Doyle definitely can write interesting female characters, i liked the woman from the yellow face, the girl from study in scarlet, the lady who beat Sherlock in the one about the king, and I thought the girl and the story about the couple who made the woman they employed look like there daughter whilst keeping their daughter locked up. But I don’t think he was very interested in Mrs Watson I suppose.

Hey! im just reading ‘the return of Sherlock Holmes’ and in ‘the adventures of the empty house’ and its very heavily implied that watsons wife died? I get the vibe that Conan Doyle basically wanted to reset the canon and move Watson and Holmes’s back in together and ditch Mrs Watson and the practice. I’m just wondering if her death ever comes up again basically, whilst reading I keep thinking about if either of them is going to bring it up, but they haven’t yet. I suppose the in universe explanation is that Watson publishes these telling so wouldn’t want to put to much of his personal life into them?