Coming this Sunday at Sherlock60: The Blue Carbuncle

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It's the weekend, and it's the beginning of the holiday season - what a perfect time to read a canon Sherlock Holmes Christmas story! This Sunday, we'll be reading and writing about The Blue Carbuncle. An incredible chain of events begins with a lost hat and a Christmas goose arriving at Baker Street.

We'll also be discussing the Granada adaptation of The Blue Carbuncle, so don't miss that too! You can watch it at YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Video, and DVD.

Here are your completely optional prompts for BLUE. Feel free to use one, both, or neither.

Optional prompt #1: BLUE is set right after Christmas. How did our boys spend their holiday?

Optional prompt #2: "gem"

Five Orange Pips: An Effective Framing Device

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: An Effective Framing Device
Author: impulsereader

*****

He would tell the tale of a case bookended by equinoctial gales. His readers never need know both sets of winds had whistled through the streets and alleyways of London. For Holmes had enacted his vengeance on Openshaw’s behalf. Though Watson had not been present, he had received a telegram one equally gale-accosted day. It read: Three orange pips. -SH

*****

A/N: The idea that Holmes did get his revenge and Watson was covering for him is blatantly stolen from hisietari’s comment in the canon discussion post for this story.

A Case of Identity: Of Course

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Canon Story: A Case of Identity
Title: Of Course
Author: impulsereader
A/N: Inspired by Watson’s prediction of how the case he chose at random from the newspaper had run its course: 'A husband's cruelty to his wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.

*****

The meeting, of course, of both men and minds, the case, the chase, the capture, the triumphant return, the clarification, the celebratory whisky, the late-night violin concerts.

The eventual severing, of course, the long absences, the carefully subdued reunions, the perpetual hope of an extended visit, the dashing of that hope each time the bell rang because he already knew.

The Red-headed League: Shared Mirth

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Canon story: The Red-headed League
Title: Shared Mirth
Author: impulsereader
A/N: Born of this moment from the story: Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door behind me. because it so perfectly leads to the lads’ shared laughter.

*****

The case and the client were nearly too fascinating, too entertaining, to be true. Holmes was just beginning to doubt his own senses when Watson had the goodness to pop in and provide the opportunity for consultation with a trusted source.

His attention split, he kept a merry eye on the good doctor as the tale grew steadily more ridiculous.