the Devil's Foot: the root of it all

Fittingly, it was through the fogs of the Turkish bath that young Malone spoke to Dr Watson, for if not quite a land of mist it was at least a cubicle. “So you see, the Daily Gazette have quite thrown me to the wolves and the central enigma of the Professor's spiritualist obsession remains unsolved.”

“Devil’s Foot Root,” whispered Watson.

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this was inspired by the adventure of the devil's foot and by spacemutineer and the good people at Sherlock60 
i have always thought that Dr Sterndale and Professor Challenger could be one and the same man.