Talk:Silver Blaze
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The Inspectors are not usually counted as clients. You could put "the police" though, I suppose.
As to the villain, Straker cannot truly be called the villain since Holmes is investigating his murder, which turns out to be a death by misadventure. He is a villainous character, to be sure, but I don't think you can call him "The Villain". Kelisi 03:42, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Apostrophe
From Apostrophe: "In general, a good practice is to follow whichever spoken form is judged best: Boss's shoes, Mrs. Jones' hat (or Mrs. Jones's hat, if that spoken form is preferred). In many cases, both spoken and written forms will differ between people." I was always taught that a possessive ending in a hard 's' (or 'z', if you prefer, like 'Charles') takes just an apostrophe to form its possessive. (So titles such as Bridget Jones's Diary (in my opinion) should have been written Bridget Jones' Diary — but then this may have been deliberate to reflect the quirks of the character.) However, obviously everyone has a preference on this so I'm not getting into an edit war — except to state that I think "Holmes's" is an awkward way of saying something that could be communicated with one fewer letter (and indeed syllable). Thus we'll have to agree to disagree. Chris 42 10:53, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
