ACD Holmes Fanworks Exchange

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It is with great pleasure that we can announce the arrival of Round 6 of the ACD Holmes Fanworks Exchange



Sign ups are open now and will close on Sunday 22nd February at acd_holmesfest

If you are enjoying our 60s, and would like to write more; or maybe your forte is always for the longer work then do go and sign up.  All fanworks are welcome, so artists, podficcers, icon makers, now is your chance to enjoy the love for ACD Holmes.

As Holmes himself would say: Sign up at once if convenient.  If inconvenient, sign up anyway.

The Red-Headed League: A Change of Occupation

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Canon Story: The Red-headed League (plus bonus Naval Treaty)
Title: A Change of Occupation
Author: mundungus42
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Note: As Mr. Thomas L. Strix has pointed out ("Concerning 'The Red-Headed League'"): "The Encyclopaedia Britannica - the 1875 edition, which is the one that must have been used- has 928 pages in Volume One, and doesn't reach the article on Attica until page 794 of Volume Two. Now, the average page of the Brittancia has 3,728 words. The calculation is simple. The pawnbroker says that he copied 6,419,616 words in eight weeks, working only four hours a day. That, gentlemen, is at the rate of 33,435 words per hour, of 557.25 words per minute. --from William S. Baring-Gould's The Annotated Sherlock Holmes

Two days after Dr. Watson's account of my adventure was published, a gentleman I didn't know entered my shop.

“Is it true, what was in The Strand?”

“Yes, milord,” I said.

He laid a sheaf of papers before me. “I would have ten copies by tomorrow morning.”

“Where should I send them?”

“Lord Holdhurst, Downing Street.”