Discussion Post: The Three Gables

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Happy Sunday, everyone. Let's have a chat about The Three Gables, shall we? As always, I've written up a few of my random thoughts and questions. Please add your own!

- *sigh* More Victorian racism. The Victorian attitudes toward virtually anyone who was not a white man evident in some of these stories makes the reading rather painful on occasion, at least to this modern reader. This is definitely one of those times. As I said, *sigh*

- Very curious about Mr. Langdale Pike, professional gossip monger. He sounds fascinating on his own, but mixed up with Holmes? Ah, there are good tales in there to be told. How'd they meet?

- Any guesses about Holmes' relationship to Douglas Maberley? "I have never known anyone so vitally alive. He lived intensely - every fibre of him!" Doesn't that sound like a desciption of Holmes himself? And to call him "one of the most striking men in London"... Well, it leads one to some rather unusual possible conclusions. This does not seem at all like the way he would talk about a random casual acquaintance. Holmes says, "I knew him slightly," but can we take his word on that? He was talking to Douglas' grieving mother at the time, after all.

- Why doesn't Holmes look through the suitcase himself? I know it's a bit intimate - the belongings of a lost son - but the danger was obvious. And why didn't he leave Watson with Mrs. Maberley for the night? Propriety again? Would Watson have been able to protect her?

- One more thing: Mrs. Maberley is one tough lady!

The Three Gables: No Remorse

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Canon: The Adventure of the Three Gables
Title: No Remorse
Author: ennui_enigma
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Note: I've never been one compose in verse so I have no idea how I ended up with this 60 word poem. Just a bunch of random thoughts strung together with a little rhyme.

A heartbroken debonair now dead

A Spanish lady without chagrin

A secret novel that lay unread

An unusual offer to buy

House and all contents lying within

With massive boxer spying nearby

Just a burglary the inspector said

But Holmes and Watson knew other clues swirled

Although the wedding would go ahead

At Least Holmes’ client could see the world

The Three Gables: Gossip Master

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Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Langdale Pike
Summary: Holmes reflects on Langdale Pike.
Warnings: Extremely tangential references to 3GAB.
Word Count: 60.
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

3GAB -- The Adventure of the Three Gables

If Charles Augustus Milverton was one side of scandal’s coin, Langdale Pike represented the other. Langdale never blackmailed a soul, yet what he chose to publish (or withhold) shaped the lives of thousands. One of my earliest clients, he became in time one of the most powerful men in London. A useful ally, yet an aspect of Society I abhorred.

The Three Gables: Sense of Smell, PG

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The Adventure of the Three Gables

Title: Sense of Smell

Author: tweedisgood

Rating: PG

Warning: Victorian homophobia, in response to Holmes being a racist arse. Or maybe, just maybe Steve Dixie liked garlic.



Sure was a bad thing about Perkins. Him knowin' about it, leastways. Or else, for those two jibes about how I smell, I'd 'a dealt him a blow about what he smells of. Spunk and shame, Masser Holmes, spunk and shame. Tell that to your doctor friend; then see if an' he'd raise a poker for you or against you.

The Three Gables: Hello Ladies

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Canon Story: The Three Gables
Title: Hello Ladies
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Note: My personalised (literal) head-canon is scary.

It might be true that I have never shown interest in the other sex, which, obviously, stands in stark contrast to the misinterpretation that I hate women. Hate requires interest, even if interest will not necessarily spark hate. Concerning my clearly stated distrust however, well. I have my reasons for only ever mentioning the brothers of our late professor Moriarty.

The Three Gables: Armament

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Canon Story: The Three Gables
Title: Armament
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Whew, what a long week! Hopefully next week will be better -- and given the fact we're reading the Three Garridebs, I think it will be. :)

Steve Dixie brandished his fist, a brick made for pummeling, while I resorted to the only armament in an arm's length, the fireplace poker.

Holmes wielded naught but his fearless voice, talking his way out of trouble as easily as he talks his way into it. He trusted his weapon, as did I, but I kept my cudgel.