The Resident Patient: The Ever-Changing Kaleidoscope of Life

[vaysh]

Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Title: The Ever-Changing Kaleidoscope of Life
Author: vaysh
Rating: G
Author's Notes: This took a lot more research than I intended. :)


A ramble through Fleet Street with my friend Sherlock Holmes meant…

… to see bombs at Hancock's where others see toothache remedies,

… to infer by a close look at the stairs that a Duke called for the services offered at 3 Serjeants' Inn,

… and to keenly observe the illegal gambling going on behind the barber's chair at the Gaiety Toilet Club.

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting in that research, and sharing it with us. I much enjoyed this walk with Holmes.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

This is a really lovely description and well worth the research, thank you.

[vaysh]

Thank you! It was a lot of fun squinting at old pictures from Fleet Street for storefronts Holmes and Watson could possibly have passed. :)

[vaysh]

Thank you. It was fun to research Fleet Street around 1890. :)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I can only admire the effort you're putting into these stories ^_^ I love the way you've filled out the details of what is only a brief description - got out your metaphorical magnifying glass (and possibly literal magnifying glass, from the sound of it :P) and allowed us to have a closer look.

[vaysh]

I'm having so much fun with those drabbles - thanks again for running this comm and giving me the opportunity to thorough readings through ACD's works.

"Literal magnifying glass" is quite correct. :) Hancock chemist and the Gaiety Toilet Club existed, as well as - obviously until this day - Serjeants' Inn. I looked at a look of old pictures from Fleet Street and the Strand.

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely stunning. The verisimilitude granted by the period details viscerally transports the reader to another time and place, and the peeks Watson gives us behind the facades are tantalizing. Thank you so much for this!