The Sign of Four: The Other Cases

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Title: The Other Cases
Canon Story: The Sign of Four, Chapters 1-4
Rating: Gen
Summary: We know what's in the Moroccan case, but what's in the other cases?

1. The Turkish case: favourite tobaccos, a generous portion of his perennial; a smaller portion of Watson’s current.
2. The Belgian case: bars of chocolate for Watson for lengthy waits or journeys.
3. The Parisian case: naughty postcards, one of two sets.
4. The Sumatran case: rare poisons.
5. The Indian case: a stack of letters, a pouch of tea, both dry and brittle with age.

Comments

[debriswoman]

An excellent list:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Great list - I'm glad to see he still has the postcards :)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I looked for your story, but couldn't find it. I realized I only remembered the end.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

You remembered the important bit!

It was a JWP: Examining the Contents (http://watsons-woes.livejournal.com/1508557.html)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Very well done ^__^

I like no. 2: bars of chocolate for Watson... "Holmes, the Belgian case appears to be empty again." "Is it? Good heavens. I wonder what can possibly have happened." "Hmm."

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The nibbles attack!

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Delightfully creative!!!

Is there a case of cigarette ash or plater of paris?

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

I don't know, paris is taken with the naughty postcards. I thought of an angsty one with the cigarette case at Reichenbach but decided to keep things light.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I meant plaster of Paris (from the footprints) but apparently autocorrect was one too many for my bad typing.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ooh, suggesting even more mysteries!

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[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yes, the last is about Victor Trevor and the Sumatran one the Giant Rat (and maybe the Dying Detective) and the Parisian one is from small hobbit's fic (above) and Watson grumbling about missing breakfast (the Granada version of Speckled Band plays on this) and I don't know, maybe Watson is fickle in his tobacco habits (hint, hint) and Holmes wishes he wasn't.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Well luggaged, that okapi. The Indian case is really touching, and I'm sure Watson appreciates the Belgian case.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm sure there was one case where Watson made Holmes miserable with his whining about food and now Holmes goes prepared.

[sanguinity]

Aw, tobacco and chocolate for Watson! And in his own turn, what does Watson carry for Holmes? (Besides the torch!)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Death-defying devotion is all I can think of, too.

[sanguinity]

:-D