The Valley of Fear, Pt 2, Ch. 4-7: Dumb-bells

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Title: The Valley of Fear, Pt 2, Ch. 4-7: Dumb-bells
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Turns out there was more than one of them on the scene after all.
                                                                                       
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One single dumb-bell.

Holmes turned to MacDonald. “I have it! We’re looking for a man with an immensely powerful right arm, and a scrawny, nearly invisible, left arm!” Holmes demonstrated with his own arms – looking rather like a fiddler-crab attempting to portray Richard the Third.

I cleared my throat. “Or one was used to sink the evidence.”

Silence. “Or that.”

Discussion Post: The Valley of Fear, Pt. 1, Chaps. 4-7

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Valley of Fear (Pt. 1, Chaps. 4-7) and the chosen topic is Victorian Exercise.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Valley of Fear, Pt. 1, Chaps. 4-7

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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 go on 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.

There is no poem from Rachel this week, I’m afraid. My housemaid is presently “on secondment” to Mr. Holmes and will be working with him and Dr. Watson on a case for the next few weeks. (For heaven’s sake, Mr. Holmes—I realise justice cannot wait, but neither can the ironing.)

So, for the moment we are returning to having a new poetry form each week to try. And this week my featured form is acrostic poetry.

( Definition and Example )

But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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, Fib, 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 Valley of Fear in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Valley of Fear: Mr. Holmes the Detective

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Canon Story: The Valley of Fear, Pt. 1, Chaps. 4-7
Title: Mr. Holmes the Detective
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: ...the contentment of their family life. “I have worked with Mr. Holmes before,” said Inspector MacDonald. “He plays the game.” “My own idea of the game, at any rate,” said Holmes, with a smile.


“Take me through the deductions again,” said Watson.

Holmes sighed.

“Look at the child’s eyes. The chin! This isn’t the baker’s daughter. The surname is pure coincidence.”

“Astonishing.”

Watson plucked the card from Holmes’s fingers and laid Miss Bun beside Mr. Bun, Mrs. Bun and Master Bun.

He looked up.

“You’d do anything to stop me winning at Happy Families.”

Valley of Fear pt 2: Just one wink will do

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Canon Story: The Valley of Fear
Title: Just one wink will do
Author:godsdaisiechain
Rating: G

He’d always been bustling, stoutish, red-faced, nearly purple after a bit of exercise.  Mates still fondly called him “Red” after a few pints.  All to the good.  People wanted to help poor, pink-faced bumblers like White Mason.

“More farmer than detective,” Holmes muttered, waving him away the first day.  White smiled, satisfied with his disguise.  Then Holmes winked. Just once.

The Valley of Fear: The Trials of Sharing a Bed

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Canon Story: The Valley of Fear
Title: The Trials of Sharing a Bed (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I have discovered if we are forced to share a double bed in a country inn I must be first into bed.  I have learnt to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, but it does require me to have a pillow for my head to hit.  If Holmes gets there first he will appropriate them all.