The Mazarin Stone/Gen

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Story: The Mazarin Stone
Rating: G
Summary: Mrs. Hudson isn’t fooled any more than we are.

“Doctor Watson, you shouldn’t allow anyone else write up Mister Holmes’s cases. Your readership want your perspective as much as a thrilling adventure and a mystery solved.”
“What gave it away, Mrs. Hudson?”
“’Consider the furniture!’ As if that man has ever considered the furniture, the carpet, the wallpaper, that lovely pot of violets I had growing in the window…”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

No wonder the Count was fooled - Holmes behaviour was totally out of character ;)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Count thought it was a pantomime. Or some kind of practical joke and that the guy playing Holmes was an actor!