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The I'm. As Sir Edward George Bullwyr Lytton first put it, our tale begins on a dark and stormy night.

In the pounding rain, an hysterical man is subdued by friends as he flails and shouts of

his own shame and ruin.

His young fiancée watches, horrified, as they carry him kicking and screaming to a sickbed

inside the house.

Little does she know of the disaster which has transpired concerning the Naval Treaty.

In his 2016 book, Granada's greatest Detective, Keith Frankel called the Naval Treaty a real oddity within the Granada scheme.

He wrote,

It stands separate from the tome, and at times appears to belong to a more sanguine and romantic project altogether.

There's something genuinely idiosyncratic and individual about this picture. to a more sanguine and romantic project altogether.

There's something genuinely idiosyncratic and individual about this picture.

It captures the Granada sequence in a state of evolution.

Consequently, and thrillingly, this program is working on an open plane, and it's impossible

to predict its next destination. So an oddity then, but therein

lies its beauty. So is Mr. Frankel in the right here? Is the Naval Treaty an oddity,

an outlier of the Granada series? Let's find out.

The following morning, Sherlock Holmes busies himself behind his chemistry set,

solving yet another case by checking the reaction of a litmus strip. Watson interrupts him, but Holmes

welcomes the distraction. A commonplace little murder. You have something more interesting, I fancy.

You are the stormy petrol of crime, Watson.

What is it?

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