The Dancing Men: Chalk

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Title: Chalk
Author: capt_facepalm
Characters: Mr Abe Slaney
Rating: G
Author's Notes: (...lurker bush still rustling...)

Mr Abe Slaney
Would have to wait until it was less rainy.
If he left his message today
It would be washed away.

Canon Discussion: The Dancing Men

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This week we’re looking at The Dancing Men. As usual, I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion underway, which you can find under the cut. But don’t forget to look at laurose8’s discussion post too, which considers Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ parents.

( Discussion continues... )

The Dancing Men: Births, Marriages and Deaths

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Title: Births, Marriages and Deaths
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “I stopped at a boarding-house in Russell Square, because Parker, the vicar of our parish, was staying in it.” “It was only after her marriage to this Englishman that I was able to find out where she was.” Maybe Slaney saw an old newspaper from England..?


“It’s a shame it will be such a quiet wedding,” said Mrs Whittaker. She had grown fond of her American boarder.

“They did not want any fuss,” the Reverend Parker explained.

“I would like to do something to wish them well…” Mrs Whittaker brightened. “I shall put an announcement in The Times!”

The clergyman nodded. “That could do no harm.”

The Dancing Men: Thurston

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “3. You never play billiards except with Thurston. 4. You told me four weeks ago that Thurston had an option on some South African property…”


Securities? Was it wise of Thurston,
Aiming to be the first in?
In trying to be lucre’d
One can so easily end up snookered.

The Dancing Men: Sound Investment

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Title: Sound Investment
Author: capt_facepalm
Characters: Mr Sherlock Holmes, Dr John H. Watson
Rating: G
Author's Notes: (...crack-a-doodle-do from the lurker bush...)

‘Thurston may know a thing or two about billiards but that hardly makes him an authority on investments. Don’t let your friendship get in the way of your judgement… Ear plugs, Watson?! I have just spent the last ten minutes warning you about the dangers involved in foreign mineral speculation! ’

‘Sorry, Holmes. I hadn’t realised you had stopped singing.’

The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Turning the Dancing Men to Good Use

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Title: Turning the Dancing Men to Good Use
Author: vaysh
Rating: PG
Words: 60
Author's Notes: Someone had to write it. (I'm rather guessing it's been done loads of time before. :))


John had been patient with him. Sherlock hated losing. It was not even the smitten sod's life but the futility of his efforts that irked him. One could hardly count the Dancing Men amongst his successful cases.

A slip of paper was lying on his desk.


A smile ghosted over the detective's face.

The Dancing Men: An experiment by any other name would still smell

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Title: An experiment by any other name would still smell
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I was glad that the affair of the dancing men distracted Holmes from his experiment.  Last time he had produced a particularly malodorous product Mrs Hudson had appeared, declaring that she was convinced she could smell dead rat.  Nothing we could do would dissuade her from performing a thorough cleaning of our rooms.  We did not need a repeat visit.

The Dancing Men: Mrs King

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Mrs King
Said that in her hearing
There was one sound that caused her to wake
And a second which led to the heartache.