The Five Orange Pips: The Last Court of Appeal

[wild-huntress.livejournal.com]

Canon story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: The Last Court of Appeal
Author: wild_huntress
Rating: G

I hesitated too much; a more efficient, energetic course was needed. Police in America are as prone to imbecility as their British peers - and may even harbour troubling sympathies, sometimes. Their justice may be no more satisfactory than that of a random shipwreck or of naive and ignorant men.

I shall keep the lesson in mind for next time.



Author’s note: I really could not seem to get this piece to go in the direction it was supposed to, and had a bit of a spaz attack at it from frustration, but oh well.

Comments

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Quite interesting! And Holmes's insight about "troubling sympathies" would have been all too possible.

[hardboiledbaby]

Excellent point regarding the "troubling sympathies." Nicely done.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

This was a rough week for several people, so don't feel alone on that. But I like yours! Thinking coolly and logically through a bad result and learning from it. Very Holmes.