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W elcome to the streets of London in the Victorian era. The fog is spreading, crime runs rampant, and you, one of
the Baker Street Irregulars, are here to lead the investigation… In A Study in Scarlet, Watson introduces the Baker
Street Secret Police Section to us for the first time.
This group of “half a dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street urchins that I ever clapped eyes on”, under the leadership of
Wiggins, was a most precious help to Sherlock Holmes, to whom they were “the eyes and ears in the streets of London”.
As early as 1888, in The Sign of Four, Wiggins had become a young man, and his group of Baker Street Irregulars had doubled.
“They can go everywhere, see everything , overhear every one,” declared Holmes. Wiggins had become a vital collaborator to the
world’s greatest consulting detective.
Holmes’ career in Baker Street lasted some 22 years. The number of cases he had to solve grew at the same speed as his
reputation. After Watson’s first marriage, in November 1886, Holmes relied increasingly on the help of the Baker Street
Irregulars. During the years in which Holmes was absent, from 1892 to 1894, it was Wiggins, who was then attempting to
become an actor, who kept Mycroft Holmes informed of the cr