The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Grace

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Title: The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Grace
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  There’s all sorts of poor, helpless worms.
                                                                                       
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Watson avoided a fatal bullet in Afghanistan. He came to London, and in meeting him I avoided one myself.

For I have seen solitary addicts dying in slums, and aristocrats’ overdoses disguised as illness by relatives to hide empty lives and lonely deaths.

How often have I paraphrased Baxter:

There, but for the grace of John Watson, goes Sherlock Holmes.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery: An Unclean Shave

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Title: An Unclean Shave
Canon Story: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Summary: Holmes isn't the only one who notices the effects of a right-sided bedroom window. POV Miss Turner.

Thank goodness, an answer to prayer! I am certain he will uncover the truth and wake James from this wretched nightmare!

“Oh, Mister Sherlock Holmes!”

Now, which one of them is he?

Him? No, surely a great detective can give himself a more precise shave than that. Let’s hope it’s other one.

“I am so glad that you have come…”

Discussion Post: The Boscombe Valley Mystery

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Boscombe Valley Mystery and the chosen topic is Victorian Literature and Authors.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Boscombe Valley Mystery

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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.

Unfortunately there is no contribution from my housemaid Rachel this week. She has been very busy lately with her Women In Service Poetry Group, and I believe today she is holding a meeting titled ‘Brainstorming Your Ballad’. I am sure you will join me in wishing her well with that, and we will hopefully see her next time.

Instead, here is a new poetry form to try. I understand some distress was caused by my most recent choices of form and so this time I thought we should attempt something a little more flexible: free verse.

Shadow Poetry gives this definition:


Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content is free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).

In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause, or at a point of suspense for the reader.



Here is my example poem:


Run free, little verse
Through 221B!
Over chemicals, a violin, a consulting detective…
Over moustachioed doctor, medical supplies (a bottle of brandy)...
Over curtains, over mantel, over…
(Great heavens)
An enormous pile of papers left in the middle of the floor.
You jump!
And trip!
And fall.
Yes, sadly, little verse—this is where the line
Breaks.



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, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, 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 Boscombe Valley Mystery in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Regeneration

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Canon Story: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Title: Regeneration
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “And the practice?” “I do my neighbour’s when he goes. He is always ready to work off the debt.” (STOC) “I have no doubt Jackson would take my practice.” (CROO) "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you.” (BOSC) So why does the neighbour abruptly change from Jackson to Anstruther? And what does the neighbouring doctor do when he’s away from his practice..?


There was a new face next door.

“Hello!” smiled Watson. “Jackson gone, has he, Doctor..?”

“Er…” The new doctor looked sideways. “An…struth…er..? Yes, Anstruther!”

He opened Jackson’s blue cabinet and stepped inside.

“Sorry to dash; I’ll be back soon. Same arrangement as before all right?”

The door closed, and the cabinet faded away.

Watson simply stared.

“Fine by me, Doctor.”

The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Newspapers

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Canon Story: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Title: Newspaper (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
Message from the Sloth: Our apologies to our subscribers, in the temporary absence of our Editor, there may be a delay in responding to correspondence.

Holmes expressed his surprise that no-one joined our train compartment.  However, since every seat was covered in newspapers and I would have suffered the same fate had I not objected somewhat vociferously, I was not surprised.  I had indeed hoped to peruse one or two of the racing pages when Holmes finished, but he quickly removed them from my reach.
 

Boscombe Valley: No Lies

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Author: godsdaisiechain
Canon story: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Title: No Lies Between Us
Rating: G

James confessed. Everything.  “I don’t want lies between us,” he explained.

Miss Turner’s lip set in a narrow, hard line as she listened.  “So she either lied then or is lying now.”

James hung his head, his heart throbbing painfully.  Then a light, warm hand settled on his.  “I do love you, James, but you need to speak with Father.”