The Three Gables: Shingle

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Title: The Three Gables: Shingle
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: She’s a snoop and he’s good with his fists. Cue the theme-music.
                                                                                                                                                                                
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“’Wicked to tell fibs,’ as if he ain’t told enough ‘isself,” Susan sniffed. “Reckon I’m as good at findin’ out things as he is.”

Steve Dixie stared into his beer. “I could outbox that doctor bodyguard of his.”

Tall thin white woman and large black man looked at each other. And grinned.

“Harrow Detective Agency?” suggested Dixie.

They shook hands.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Oh, hell yeah. :-D

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of their agency showing up at a crime and making that self-satisfied racist white guy's head pop.

[trobadora]

Oh, I love this!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

So do I!

[debriswoman]

Now, there's a thought:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And who in Victorian London is going to suspect an unattractive white servant girl and a Negro of being detectives?

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Brilliant idea. And extra kudos for naming it after a posh school that wouldn't have either of them.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Actually named it after the house's locale - but yeah, adds a touch of poshness that would attract clients (rather like a female detective naming her agency Remington Steele).

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Wonderful. :)
I’d still put my wager on Watson in a boxing match (mainly cause I’m really biased).

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Also depends on the Watson. Poor Edward Hardwicke got the stuffing knocked out of him in Granada 3GAB, but Andrei Panin's no-nonsense pugilist Watson from the Russian 2013 series could knock down Steve Dixie while he was tending to another patient, reading a paper, and arguing with Holmes at the same time.