The Adventure of the Priory School: Curious Behavior

[methylviolet10b]

Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Holmes finds evidence in actions - and their lack.
Warnings: Very mild spoilers for PRIO.
Word Count: 60
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

PRIO – Curious Behavior
The behavior of the secretary – and the Duke – in attempting to warn me off heightened my determination to discover the truth and recover the missing boy. No father, no matter how cold or proud, would act so in the face of his son’s disappearance; and no seasoned politician would let his underling speak for him in so delicate a matter.

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seriously thought about it before - Wilder speaking instead of the Duke. Now you've brought my attention to it I can see how strange it appears. I'd just assumed it was because the Duke was a nobleman and these were the social rules. But looking at it more closely, it gives the impression the Duke is deferring to Wilder.

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! It is an odd moment of power dynamics, or at least it seemed so to me.

60 Words for 60 Cases: The Priory School

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User spacemutineer referenced to your post from 60 Words for 60 Cases: The Priory School (http://dispatch-box.livejournal.com/225364.html) saying: [...] by Curious Behavior [...]

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Holmes, ever the contrarian, would take any case he was being warned-off from!

[methylviolet10b]

Very true indeed. :-D Thanks!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

YES. You are so often right on the same wavelength I am. That scene where the Duke tries to brush Holmes off and Holmes announces he's going to hang around and investigate even more whether the Duke likes it or not is delicious, and you've done it excellent service expanding Holmes' thoughts.

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! It is such a telling scene, one which becomes even more interesting in hindsight when the mystery is resolved.