The Retired Colourman: Odours and Infidelities

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Retired Colourman: Odours and Infidelities
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Trouble in paradise.
                                                                                       
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“A wild goose chase.” I glared at Holmes. “And all for a very obvious reason.”

“Indeed. To keep our suspect out of town whilst I investigated.”

I gripped his collar and glared into his startled eyes. “Which I would believe, if Barker’s cologne smell on you didn’t tell me exactly WHAT kind of investigation went on while I was away!”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Mrs Hudson complaining about the strong smell of cologne in her broom cupboard.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Why yes, Inspector Hopkins, go right on up and take your usual place," Watson says with a sadistic grin to the confused Scotland Yarder.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ooo! No Holmes! Really? A guy with grey coloured glasses! For shame! 'Hated rival' indeed!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Well it's a physical kind of hate, you understand.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ah. That kind.

[debriswoman]

Ah yes, the essential and in depth interrogation in the broom cupboard...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Neither Hopkins nor Watson would take kindly to Holmes smoking some other detective's pipe if you know what I mean.

[debriswoman]

The very thought...

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

So many ships, so little time...

I am oddly swayed by your theory here ^^ And I'm glad to see that Watson has picked up some deductive skills from Holmes - though I imagine Holmes himself is somewhat less pleased.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Holmes really kind of wishes Watson WERE as dumb as he paints himself in the stories...