Perhaps Watson did not take part in any Holmes adventure
3 years after his first marriage to Mary Morsten ?

--Anand

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Tim Symonds
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> Recently I posed a quiz question on the number of years Holmes and Watson
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> Take away the 3 missing years and it comes to 19 years, but it is always
> said that Holmes and Watson worked together for 17 years. How to reconcile
> this difference? It's a real Sherlockian puzzle.
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-Anand