The Speckled Band: When a Doctor Goes Right

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Canon Story: The Speckled Band

Title: When a Doctor Goes Right

Author: Mary Sutherland

Rating: PG

"When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and knowledge" – Sherlock Holmes, The Speckled Band

My friend Watson's knowledge is sometimes a little shaky: one might expect a man who has spent time in India to recognise a swamp adder by sight. But there can be no doubt about his nerve. A man who will sit in perfect silence all night in a darkened room awaiting an unknown danger is surely a companion beyond price.

Comments

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Hm. I suppose Watson should have been educated as to what the snake looked like even if they weren't all that common a find in reality. Still, I must say that it is much more difficult to understand what you are looking at when you aren't expecting to see what you are looking at. That's just me speaking as someone who takes a while to catch on to things... :-) I'm firmly a Watson, apparently.