The Musgrave Ritual: Small Ads

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Canon Story: The Musgrave Ritual
Title: Small Ads (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

For Sale: Coal scuttle, contents various.

Wanted: Carpenter to replace split wooden mantelpiece.

For Sale: Two equal sized planks of wood, could be used as short shelves.  Will sell separately.

Wanted: Plasterer to repair holes in wall, probably caused by bullets.

Wanted: Supply of butter dishes similar to those used in cheap boarding houses

Free to good home: Consulting detective.
 

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

What an intriguing and amusing series of advertisements. I wonder if they could possibly be connected... (The last one in particular made me laugh ^^ *giggles*)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

If you were to enquire at the offices, you might find they were all placed by the same person.

[debriswoman]

The exasperation shines through:-)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all surprised!

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Free to good home - lovely! All the other items are great, too.

Given Holmes' exhaustive newspaper reading, we can hope this method of communicating with him was more effective than Mrs Hudson's previous attempts.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

"Do you know, Watson, these messages Mrs Hudson has been placing are becoming more obscure. What do you make of this last one?"

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Mrs. Hudson is Fed Up!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

There are times when she might wish for a more conventional tenant.

[alafaye]

I love that last line :D

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.