The Red-Headed League: The First Letter of the Alphabet

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: The First Letter of the Alphabet
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

A is for armchair in which Holmes reclined

A is for advertisement: red-headed man wanted

A is for assistant; a man who works for half the rate

A is for absence, needed to permit digging

A is for announcement: the League is dissolved

A is for accomplice, red-headed and caught by the police

A is for admiration, Watson is impressed

Comments

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Very clever! :D

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Very cool storytelling structure!

I bet the poor man wouldn't have noticed even if he had had to copy these lines. =P

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes, he was very easily duped.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

What a cute and clever little conceit! Very nice!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

[inner-v0ice.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nice! You so neatly encapsulated the story in this list of A's. :)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done! The whole story in just a few As...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was fun to do.

[methylviolet10b]

Watson isn't the only one who's impressed. What a great storytelling device! Well done!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's very kind of you to say so.

[vaysh]

What a wonderful take on what must have been a rather fascinating if increasingly boring job (if one like copying and learning random facts of knowledge).

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I'd completely forgotten I'd written this, so thank you for your comment and, of course, Frankles for mentioning it.