The Adventure of the Red Circle - Higher Education

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Red Circle
Title: Higher Education
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Sorry for being so late with this, I just discovered this community. (^^;)

Here I was, assuming Watson to have been able to smell a female from two miles away. This case had brought us all more of an education than even I could have expected. Maybe I should enhance his share by future practise - sample collections of odours could hardly occupy more than half the kitchen, could they? A fascinating idea.

Discussion Post: The Red-Headed League

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Happy Sunday, everybody! We're in luck for week 37, because have the all-time classic The Red-Headed League to enjoy. What did you all think? As always, I have a few questions and thoughts of my own for the story -- please add your own!

- The Red-Headed League is probably the funniest story in canon, with a goofy fool for a client and one of the most hilarious plots ever. The best part about it is the mounting ludicrousness as Wilson's narrative continues. At every turn, it becomes sillier. Even Holmes and Watson can't keep from bursting into laughter at it all. It's a great moment, although I doubt Jabez Wilson would agree with me. The case even ends with the odd exit of John Clay, who is pompous to the end despite tunneling directly into a trap, much to the amusement of the policeman hauling him to gaol. Good times, good times.

- Speaking of John Clay, my hat is off to him and his partner for running a brilliant and ridiculous con. It is so insane an idea that it can't possibly be made up, right? And it very nearly works, helped by the fantastic improvisation job by the man playing Duncan Ross. His whole routine with Wilson is a clever crackup.

- If there was a near-riot of red-headed men in London one day, wouldn't word of that have gotten around? Not a mention in the papers or even just in local gossip? And it happened on Fleet Street? That's where the press were!

- Should I be creeped out by the fact that Jabez Wilson is at home 24/7 with his fourteen-year-old housegirl? Because I AM.

The Red-Headed League: Before a Fall

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Author: shadowycat
Title: Before a Fall
Rating: G

John Clay grinned at the stones above his head. His hard work was finally about to pay off. Those fools at Scotland Yard would never know what happened. It was a shame there was no one to truly appreciate his brilliant, artistic crime, but if his greatness was not to be properly recognized, at least it would be well rewarded.

The Red-Headed League: The First Letter of the Alphabet

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: The First Letter of the Alphabet
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

A is for armchair in which Holmes reclined

A is for advertisement: red-headed man wanted

A is for assistant; a man who works for half the rate

A is for absence, needed to permit digging

A is for announcement: the League is dissolved

A is for accomplice, red-headed and caught by the police

A is for admiration, Watson is impressed

The Red-Headed League: Always / Imagination

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Always
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Inspired by the fact that The Red-Headed League takes place chronologically only two cases before The Final Problem.

His book lies on the table by the door, ready as he passes in the morning. Patients wait but this appointment always comes first.

Once more, Holmes bites his lip, but even his iron will breaks. They laugh together like schoolboys.

Watson chuckles as he always does at the memory, closing the cover bearing their names for one more day.


Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Imagination
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: G

"Did I finally manage to convince you?"

"Convince me of what?"

"That the world is far stranger than the limited human mind can imagine. If ever you required proof, I believe we've just seen it."

"Ah, no! It was an extraordinarily bizarre event in our world, true, but it came from John Clay's clever brain. Imagination wins again."

Catchin' up post 4: Self-Sufficiency: The Red Circle

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The Adventure of the Red Circle

Title: Self-Sufficiency

Rating: G

Author: tweedisgood


Mrs Warren hasn't quite my long experience as a landlady. Had I been in the room, I should have guessed her tenant wasn't a gentleman quite as quickly as Mr Holmes did.

Doing everything for himself? Why, a certain world-renowned detective wouldn't know what to do with a bar of laundry soap even if it hit him in the face.

The Adventure of the Red-Headed League: Telling

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Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Doctor John Watson, Jabez Wilson
Summary: Holmes isn't always reticent. Watson can't always express himself, either.
Warnings: Very mild spoilers for REDH.
Word Count: 60, plus a quote from the story in italics
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

REDH -- The Red-Headed League

This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also.

Holmes was not a demonstrative man. He was reserved by nature, uncommunicative by training and custom. I knew him well enough to suspect that he felt deeply, but I didn’t expect to hear him say so aloud, or even admit that he might have missed my company.

To be greeted with enthusiasm, followed by such open praise –

Words fail me.