Canon Discussion: The Second Stain

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This week we’re looking at The Second Stain. As always, I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion started.

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The Second Stain: A Visit to Sussex

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: A Visit to Sussex
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: …I had given a promise that "The Adventure of the Second Stain" should be published when the times were ripe… But when you compare the details given in NAVA with SECO itself, Watson appears to be talking about two different cases…


Holmes stared at my manuscript.

“The Second Stain? I gave my word we wouldn't make it public yet!”

“No, I said, “this isn’t the Second Stain. It’s the other Second Stain. I wouldn’t write about the first Second Stain, but this is the second Second Stain. So it’s fine.”

“Oh,” said Holmes. “Well, it’ll all come out in the wash.”

The Second Stain: Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Author: scfrankles
Rating: PG




Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope
Didn’t merely forlornly mope.
But when retrieving Lucas’ ill-gotten gains,
She omitted to match up the gruesome bloodstains.

The Adventure of the Second Stain: The Nameless Decade

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Second Stain
Title: The Nameless Decade
Author: vaysh
Rating: G
Words: 60
Author's Note: This drabble is set on the evening of 1 August 1914, when Germany declared war on Russia.


This Saturday evening, I go through my old notes. A slip of paper falls from the diary marked 1881 - 89. In my friend's unmistakable hand it has the Kaiser written on it. For twenty-six years I held on to this memento from Holmes' most distinguished case. Today, with Europe on the brink of war, his supposition seems like prophecy.

The Second Stain: Regrets

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: Regrets
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Lady Trelawney Hope tried without success to comfort her grieving sisters.  Both had lost sons.

Through her tears the eldest sobbed “To think that one letter could lead to so much death.  You should be grateful, Hilda, that you have no child to mourn.”

Lady Hope woke with a start, thankful that Eduardo Lucas had been killed by his wife.

The Second Stain: Oberstein

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G




Oberstein
Missed out on this gold mine
He knew there would be another letter
Which would be even better

The Second Stain: Bulldog Features

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: Bulldog Features
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
A/N: I could say I was sorry, but that wouldn't be true.

“I see it’s bulldog features that I have now,” Lestrade remarked to me, as he read the draft of what was to be my latest submission to The Strand Magazine.  “I suppose it’s an improvement on ferret like.”

“I know neither is accurate, but if I told the truth I would sound like Mouselet’s descriptions of Stanley Hopkins,” I replied.