The answer is >! The Hounds of Baskerville [Warlord 099's answer][1] took me almost the whole way there. It suggests to: >! fill in partial words like `B***KF***` into words like `BREAKFAST`, then find them in the grid with a set of substitutions. For example, it becomes `BDSOKFOEC`, a string found backwards in the top row of the words search, with the substitutions `D<->R, S<->E, O<->A. C<->T`. Presumably, Warlord 099 found these by looking for snippets in the word search and finding consistent substitutions. From there, I simply >! Googled the words. This led me to >! The first paragraph of [The Hounds of Baskerville][2], a story featuring Sherlock Holmes, which contains these words. As confirmation as to the answer >! the first chapter contains references to meeting at Waterloo Station. I feel like I disregarded some information in my solution, so I'm curious if this is how it was intended to be solved. [1]: http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/5772/4551 [2]: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2852/2852-h/2852-h.htm