The Mazarin Stone: To the Life

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Title: The Mazarin Stone: To the Life
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Again, Doyle teases. I wanted to see this one.

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An elderly woman – the dowager’s hump, tattered umbrella, and every line of her body bespeaking a lifetime of drudgery, from her unattractively hawkish nose to the shuffling flatfooted gait – appeared in the parlour.

“Bravo!” I smiled. “Or should that be ‘brava’?”

My partner responded with a modest head-turn, and just a touch of the impish grin of a faded coquette.

The Mazarin Stone/Gen

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Story: The Mazarin Stone
Rating: G
Summary: Mrs. Hudson isn’t fooled any more than we are.

“Doctor Watson, you shouldn’t allow anyone else write up Mister Holmes’s cases. Your readership want your perspective as much as a thrilling adventure and a mystery solved.”
“What gave it away, Mrs. Hudson?”
“’Consider the furniture!’ As if that man has ever considered the furniture, the carpet, the wallpaper, that lovely pot of violets I had growing in the window…”

Canon Discussion: The Mazarin Stone

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This week we’re having a look at The Mazarin Stone. 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 Mazarin Stone

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative (though once again, did the Doctor write this particular story..?) 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.

Before we begin, I would just like to mention that the 6th was of course Mr. Holmes’s birthday. And as well as receiving a splendid Epiphany Tart from okapi1895, he also received another from vaysh. You can see her photograph of her magnificent creation below:



I can confirm that both tarts tasted delicious. And as well as those delightful treats, gardnerhill popped round with a chocolate cake! I cannot tell you how that tasted because soon after it arrived Mr. Holmes declared he had to go and check it for suspicious substances—returning an hour later with an empty plate and a large smile on his face.

Anyway, this week my featured form is the elfje. I was inspired in my choice by Sam Merton’s “fairy footstep” and by the mention of Van Seddar and Amsterdam.

( 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, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, 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 Mazarin Stone in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Mazarin Stone: Groovy

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Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: Groovy
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: There was a facsimile of his old friend… Billy detached the head and held it in the air. “These modern gramophones are a remarkable invention."


“Gramophones are splendid. But I prefer my old wax cylinder player!”

Holmes grabbed the head from his wax replica, inserted it into the machine and put the needle in place.

Astonishingly, a lovely melody began to play.

Watson wrinkled his brow. “What is that? Is it something famous?”

“Oh, no,” said Holmes. “It’s just something out of my own head.”

The Mazarin Stone: Unwanted Submissions

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Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: Unwanted Submissions (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

As we have recently received a number of unsolicited manuscripts of a fictional nature, we should like to remind our readers that we do not publish such articles.  Items of a factual nature may be submitted, providing they are on topics which will concern or inform the majority of our readership, but we do not guarantee publication of such material.