The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Turning the Dancing Men to Good Use

[vaysh]

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Title: Turning the Dancing Men to Good Use
Author: vaysh
Rating: PG
Words: 60
Author's Notes: Someone had to write it. (I'm rather guessing it's been done loads of time before. :))


John had been patient with him. Sherlock hated losing. It was not even the smitten sod's life but the futility of his efforts that irked him. One could hardly count the Dancing Men amongst his successful cases.

A slip of paper was lying on his desk.


A smile ghosted over the detective's face.

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, how lovely ^^ Just spent several happy minutes decoding your message ^_^ And, yes, the kind of message that would have to be in code *blushes*

I noticed there are a couple of figures that don't appear in DANC - I hadn't realised there was a full set! ^_^

[vaysh]

Thank you. The story was asking for that kind of note to be fabricated by a fan like me, obviously. ;)

I spent a happy two hours yesterday with the Dancing Men and internet posts on code. The letters that are not in The Dancing Men I found on the nets, too. I researched forever to find out if ACD actually provided a full set somewhere but I couldn't discover anything on it.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

(A fan like me - to be fair, I do like a bit of romance in that area too ^^" *blushes furiously*)

Once again I applaud the effort you put into these stories ^_^ And you've answered one of my questions - whether it was ACD who came up with the full set. Well, at least you've told me you couldn't find anything online to say that he had.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Very puzzling!
I got most of it before going to the internet for help!

[vaysh]

*grins* The internet is a very big help in this one. :)