Is a title ever actually given? (I noped out early but Norbury seems to be a reference to this infamous character as well as the ACD story?)
Anyway, It's an instance I think of ignorance leading to unnecessary complication (see also: Lady Violet's Catholicism) -- the scenario's still I'd argue not really workable, but it would have had a better chance of working had the Holmes family been gentry rather than nobility, and Watson an army officer rather than Black and Tans: that makes the casefic element trickier, maybe--goddammit, I'm not rewriting this story. The stuff about Sherlock not knowing who Asquith or Churchill is is just bloody inane.
Re: sorry I seem to have accidentally tl:dr because Ireland
Anyway, It's an instance I think of ignorance leading to unnecessary complication (see also: Lady Violet's Catholicism) -- the scenario's still I'd argue not really workable, but it would have had a better chance of working had the Holmes family been gentry rather than nobility, and Watson an army officer rather than Black and Tans: that makes the casefic element trickier, maybe--goddammit, I'm not rewriting this story. The stuff about Sherlock not knowing who Asquith or Churchill is is just bloody inane.