The Retired Colourman: Odours and Infidelities

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Title: The Retired Colourman: Odours and Infidelities
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Trouble in paradise.
                                                                                       
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“A wild goose chase.” I glared at Holmes. “And all for a very obvious reason.”

“Indeed. To keep our suspect out of town whilst I investigated.”

I gripped his collar and glared into his startled eyes. “Which I would believe, if Barker’s cologne smell on you didn’t tell me exactly WHAT kind of investigation went on while I was away!”

The Retired Colourman: Noir isn't Black and White, it's Grey

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Canon Story: The Retired Colourman
Rating: Teen for (what I hope is) noir-ish inuenndo
Summary: Alternate ending for Mister Barker and Mrs. Amberley

“Thank you, Mister Barker.”
“My pleasure.” He handed her the documents. “America. Wise choice. I understand it's an accommodating destination for your kind.”
“My kind? Wives who survive their mad husbands’ murder-chambers?”
“Women who best Sherlock Holmes.”
She smiled. “Do you play chess, Mister Barker?”
“Not a bit of it.” He kissed the inside of her wrist.
“Neither do I.”

Canon Discussion: The Retired Colourman

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This week we’re having a look at The Retired Colourman. 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 Retired Colourman

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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, inspired by Mr. Holmes’s remark to the Doctor: "Cut out the poetry, Watson", my featured form is micropoetry.

( 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, ballad, 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, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


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


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Retired Colourman: A Pair of Sparkling Eyes

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Canon Story: The Retired Colourman
Title: A Pair of Sparkling Eyes
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “I can picture you whispering soft nothings with the young lady at the Blue Anchor, and receiving hard somethings in exchange.” Title from G&S’s “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” from The Gondoliers.


“Another chance for you, Watson.”

Holmes discreetly indicated the pretty young barmaid.

“I’ll go and interview the neighbours; you stay here and exchange sweet nothings for hard somethings…”



“So,” asked Holmes later, “did you get the ‘hard somethings’?”

“Indeed.”

Watson tipped up his hat to reveal two black eyes.

“The young lady’s right hook and left jab were both excellent.”

The Retired Colourman: A Forthcoming Column

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Canon Story: The Retired Colourman
Title: A Forthcoming Column (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Those amongst our readers who are keen players of the game of chess will be delighted to learn we shall soon be running a monthly chess column.  It will be penned by one of the members of the City of London Chess Club and we are sure it will be of interest to the beginner and the experienced player alike.