A place in London
The Diogenes Club
Where the story puts it, as near as can be told.
The Diogenes ClubPall MallMycroft Holmes's club for the unclubbable, where no member may speak to another. Fictional; the story places it in Pall Mall, among the real gentlemen's clubs.
No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion.
Visiting today
Pall Mall still has its gentlemen's clubs, among them the Reform and, at the corner of Waterloo Place, the Athenaeum. They are private: you see them from the pavement. Nearest stations: Piccadilly Circus and Charing Cross.
