The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone: Folderol

[methylviolet10b]

Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson
Summary: Holmes questions Watson's account.
Warnings: Some spoilers for MAZA.
Word Count: 60
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

MAZA -- The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

“The dummy and the air-gun are both from our adventure with Colonel Moran. The description of “Count Sylvius” mirrors the one for Baron Gruner...” Holmes threw down the magazine. “Why such a folderol of lies?”

“I promised Billy I’d write his adventure. And I could hardly report that you recovered the stone merely by picking the pocket of Lord Castlemere.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. That makes perfect sense of everything and it made me laugh.

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! Taken at face value, MAZA is a head-scratcher - at least to me. ;-)

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! Excellent! It's such a derivative story/play that I'm having trouble coming up with something. Well done for some deft meta!

[methylviolet10b]

It is a bit of a stumper, isn't it? I just couldn't believe in it as written. It's definitely one of those stories where Watson (or whoever the author is) can't possibly be telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!

Thank you!

[wild-huntress.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously - there's so much deja vu in this story that it's been utterly uninspiring for me (even though I do want to get back to this comm). Good for you making something amusing out of it!

[methylviolet10b]

You can do it! I know you can!!! And I very much look forward to what you come up with, whenever your inspiration strikes. :-)

Thank you!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Aww, I like that it's all an elaborate ruse so that Billy gets his story told. That's adorable.

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! I had to come up with *some* take on it that I could believe in... ;-)

[shouldboverthis.livejournal.com]

Watson, you devil. How then do we trust anything else you write?

Delightful.

[methylviolet10b]

It does call Watson's reliability as a narrator into question, doesn't it? Of course, there's plenty in canon that does that already, so... ;-)

Thank you!