The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge: Courtship Displays

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Title: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge: Courtship Displays
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Crack. Postulation inferred.
Summary: Commiseration in progress.

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Baynes sighed. “Did my level best. Deduced all I could in front of the fellow. Showed him how brilliant I was. All for naught.”

Hopkins refilled Baynes’ glass. "I’ve had the same luck with the other. I hung on his every word like a puppy, emulated his methods, praised him to the skies. Nothing.”

Shrug. “They’re each other’s alone, then.”

Wisteria Lodge: Deus ex Machina

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Canon Story: Wisteria Lodge
Rating: Gen
Author's Note: Based on this interpretation of canon chronology.

“Sorry I’m late. How’s he tonight?”
“The same. Still muttering about tigers and homes, but one mystery is solved. A Mrs. Hudson stopped by. His  former landlady. She said he lost his best friend and his wife last year.”
“No wonder he worked himself sick!”
“If this fever doesn’t break soon—“
“Oh, don’t talk like that. He’ll pull through.”

Discussion Post: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge and the chosen topic is Dinner Parties and Entertaining at Home.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

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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.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.



Epitaph on a Tyrant

By W. H. Auden


Note from Rachel: This is how his people remember the Tiger of San Pedro.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the décima.


( Definition and Example )

But you do not have to use that form. 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, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, décima, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Wisteria Lodge: A Much-Loved Child

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Canon Story: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Title: A Much-Loved Child
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Signora Durando seeks Holmes’ help in tracing her illegitimate daughter by the late Garcia. A follow-up to this previous WIST 60.


“Her adoptive family wished you to have this photograph,” said Holmes. “However…”

“I understand.”

Signora Durando looked away.

“But I wouldn’t have tried to take Dolores from her— Her mother.”

“They… changed her name.”

Signora Durando nodded wearily. “A good English name, to leave her past behind.”

“No,” said Holmes gently. “For you she’s Dolores but… for them she’s Luz.”



A/N: ‘Dolores’ of course means ‘sorrows’ and ‘Luz’ is ‘light’.

Wisteria Lodge: The Observers Observed

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Canon Story: Wisteria Lodge
Title: The Observers Observed (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I must admit on one of my botany walks, as recommended by Holmes, to have spotted the man himself crawling round the shrubbery at High Lodge.  And later in my walk I had seen Inspector Baynes in his perch in one of the trees of the plantation.  I made no mention of it, letting the professionals continue with their tasks.