The Dying Detective/Gen

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Story: The Dying Detective
Rating: Gen
A.N.: This article makes the case that Smith used Berkholderia pseudomallei, also known as the Vietnamese time-bomb for its potential delayed effects, as his infectious weapon.

“Smith was wise in his selection. If his victim had escaped death initially, he might have succumbed later to a relapse or a rupture of an abscess.”
Holmes frowned at the plate of cold gruel on the table. He held up the iron-singed sleeve of his dressing gown.
“Much like Mrs. Hudson’s wrath at being conscripted involuntarily into my drama.”

The Dying Detective: The Usual

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Title: The usual
Author: godsdaisiechain
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: snobbiness and gunpowder.
Summary: The wait staff at Simpson’s are not amused when Holmes and Watson appear.

( Simpson's on the Strand )

Canon Discussion: The Dying Detective

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This week we’re having a look at The Dying Detective. I’ve typed up a few thoughts and questions to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Dying Detective

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

This week my featured form is the epitaph.

( Definition and Example )

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Dying Detective in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


N.B. Next Sunday we will be writing poems for the first half of The Valley of Fear and things will be as usual.

However, the Sunday after that—the 27th—I will be celebrating the season with Mrs. Turner and her family. And so, someone from the Marylebone Monthly Illustrated has graciously offered to produce the Poetry Page just for that week. I believe she has something rather lighthearted planned—but do please feel at liberty to prepare and post poems for the second half of The Valley of Fear as well, if you desire to do so.



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Dying Detective: A Long-Suffering Woman

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Canon Story: The Dying Detective
Title: A Long-Suffering Woman
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: It was with a sinking heart that I reëntered Holmes’s bedroom... A litter of pipes, tobacco-pouches, syringes, penknives, revolver-cartridges, and other debris was scattered over it. More than one kind of litter, of course…


KEEP OUT: LITTER INSIDE! read the sign.

Mrs. Hudson sighed and entered.

“Oh!”

Holmes smiled weakly. “The puppies are going to new homes shortly.”

“Good!” Mrs. Hudson paused. “Though… is that one still available?”



“How’s he settling in?” asked Mrs. Turner.

“Investigating everything! Destroying my furnishings.” Mrs. Hudson rubbed the puppy’s ears. “Oh, Sherlock. You’re a bad boy, aren’t you?”

The Adventure of the Dying Detective: Best Served Cold

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Title: The Adventure of the Dying Detective: Best Served Cold
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: It is unhealthy both to eat a heavy meal after a 3-day fast, and to mis-use the affections of one’s closest friend.

***

“No Simpson’s for you tonight.” I pushed my friend back into his bed and raised my voice. “Mrs. Hudson! A bowl of broth. Unsalted.”

The dismay on Sherlock Holmes’ face was not feigned.

“A teaspoon every quarter-hour,” I said firmly. “Or is that prescription beyond my ‘mediocre qualifications’?”

I suspect the grim smile on our landlady’s face mirrored my own.

The Dying Detective: Restaurant Review

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Canon Story: The Dying Detective
Title: Restaurant Review (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

For readers seeking an excellent dining experience we would heartily recommend Simpson’s on the Strand.  Originally opened as a chess club and coffee house, the restaurant provides nothing but the highest quality British meat for all its guests.  Indeed the diners’ choice of large joint is brought to the table on a silver platter to be carved in their presence.