Hey gang,
I'm looking at the Master of Dartmoor today and I can't help noticing all of those telltale, distinguishing features: those wide, heavy bones, the slightly curved limbs, and most unmistakenly, that big brow skull ridge with the the unbelievably thick, hairy "uni-brow" running straight over Blackwood's eyeballs.
Good Lord! I thought, for a second, that I was looking at former Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev's long-lost father! I mean, both men have the exact same simian features. It's uncanny!
The only other person that I have ever seen with such classic Neanderthal features, especially that distinctive "uni-brow" look, is actor Charles Bronson when he played Vincent Price's mute Igor-like servant in the film horror classic, "The House of Wax."
No doubt, Garth Blackwood's father had the same hairy features as his son: the thick beard, the full head of coarse hair and that Groucho Marx-like "uni-brow" that some people might politely call a rather large, butt-ugly single eyebrow. (No doubt, Garth's mom also had some of her son's facial characteristics: the coarse hair, the thick "uni-brow, but no beard, only a thick moustache on her upper lip!)
One final note, we all know that Blackwood was the warden of Dartmoor Prison in England. I wonder if Selden, the ill-fated Notting Hill murderer from "The Hound of the Baskervilles" escaped from Dartmoor when Aristede's worst nightmare was still running the show there?
I can just see Garth Blackwood hobbling into 221-B Baker Street and making his way up the stairs to question Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson about the fate of Selden, the escaped prisoner. A horrified Mrs. Hudson observes Blackwood as he struggles under the weight of all those chains (not to mention his own girth) he's carrying, to make his way up to Holmes' apartment:
"Begorrah now, sir! You're going to ruin my stairs!"
"Be silent, woman. The Master of Dartmoor is in hot pursuit of a criminal. Justice must be served!
"And I thought that "Creeper" made a mess of my stairs, what with those big, heavy feet of his!"
Bob the Bartender, Collinsport Bay Drive Irregular