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thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: The Author
Author:

thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

It is a well known fact that detective stories are better received when written by a man than a woman. Which is why these recollections have been purportedly written by Dr John Watson. It goes without saying the good doctor gave me permission to use his name, but we all knew who, in fact, was the author, Mr Holmes included.

scfrankles.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Author:

scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page… That’s a very flattering description from the unknown writer…

Billy
Assisted Holmes willy-nilly.
But did he try to supplement his wage?
Who wrote MAZA? Let’s look at the page…

scfrankles.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: Things Get Heated
Author:

scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “Madame Tussaud ain't in it. It's the living spit of him…”

Holmes and Watson were attending the unveiling of their likenesses at Madame Tussaud’s. On a broiling summer’s day.

“It’s like a furnace,” whispered Watson.

Holmes sighed. “Indeed.”

The covering was whipped away and there was a shocked intake of breath from the audience.

“Oh, dear,” said Watson, staring at the waxworks. “Holmes, I appear to have melted into your arms.”

scfrankles.livejournal.com

This week we’re having a look at The Mazarin Stone. As always, I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion started.

( Discussion continues... )

scfrankles.livejournal.com

This Sunday, 16th November, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone.

Watson visits Baker Street, to be told by Billy the page that Holmes is investigating the theft of the Mazarin stone. The detective has identified the thief but where is the diamond?

And as well as that conundrum, there is something of equal importance for us to discuss on Sunday: just who the heck wrote The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone? Watson? Holmes? A friend, relative or acquaintance? (My money's on Billy but don't let me sway you.)

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hisietari.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: Deadline
Author:

hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: An in-story explanation as to why the case reads so crudely.

Watson’s face fell as he skimmed over the manuscript Jane handed him.
“I cannot possibly deliver this, it is atrocious!”
“Then you should not have accepted Mr Mycroft’s secret mission and written it yourself, relieving my very busy department of the tediousness. If it’s of any consolation, Mr Mycroft reacted appropriately to the salt I have spiced his tea with.”

Canon Story: The Creeping Man
Title: Sweet Dream
Author:

hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I can't resist a mad scientist job call when I hear one.

“The drug has been secured?” Mycroft Holmes asked. Jane snapped to attention.
“Secured and stored as you ordered, Sir.”
“Very good. It must never encounter human presence again.”
Jane nodded. By this time, the next test results of their improved formula should have been delivered. What the government did not know would not disturb the peaceful sleep of its citizens.

Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Title: Code
Author:

hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: This happens shortly after LION.

The letter read:
“Dear friend,
matters of great import have arisen and require your immediate return to the capital. A hansom will await you at ____ station. Tell the driver the code your brother will communicate to you.
– Jane”
He looked up. Mycroft said:
“The code is Angel.”

methylviolet10b

Two 60s today, this week's and last week's, which I did not have time to do until now.

Title: Following the Example
Author:

methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Holmes finds some aspects of writing more difficult than others.
Warnings: Mild spoilers for BLAN.
Word Count: 60
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

BLAN – Following the Example
It was a far more difficult task than I ever imagined, writing up one of my cases for public consumption. Far lonelier, too. Each word reminded me of my own soldier’s absence.

But capturing the depths of loyalty between two men, the extraordinary lengths one might go to for the other? That part was simplicity itself, thanks to long example.

Title: Quite the Mystery
Author:

methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary: Holmes sends a telegram and is surprised by the response.
Warnings: Mild 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 – Quite the Mystery
I dashed off a telegram, so angry I could hardly fill out the form. WATSON STOP EXPLAIN MOST RECENT PUBLICATION IN STRAND STOP SH FINAL STOP

A response was not long in coming. HOLMES STOP MOST CONFUSED STOP THOUGHT IT WAS YOURS STOP NOT MY WORK STOP JHW FINAL STOP

I nearly dropped the message. If not Watson, then whom?

Current Mood: headachey

scfrankles.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Title: Punchline
Author:

scfrankles
Rating: U/G
Author's Notes: “My old friend here will tell you that I have an impish habit of practical joking.”

Yelling.

The sounds of a struggle.

Watson dashed up the stairs—to find Holmes alone and smiling. He indicated the gramophone and its record.

“You know my habit of practical joking.”

Mrs Hudson sighed. More shouting and noise.

Then Watson shot past.

“Doctor!” she cried. “That was the gramophone?”

“Indeed,” laughed Watson. “I’ve just thrown it out of the window.”

thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: The Pigeon at the Minories (The Return of The Ocelot Tales)
Author:

thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

You get all sorts ‘ere. Take the geezer picking up the old dear’s brolly; likes to make out he’s a toff with all them manners, but he’s a wrong ‘un and you’d do well not to cross him. There’s something off about the old dear too; I can’t quite put my beak on it, but she ain’t what she seems.

trillsabells.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: The Agent
Author:

trillsabells
Rating: G

“You don’t like it.”

Doyle didn’t dare reply but his silence did nothing to quench the crestfallen look on Holmes’ face.

“Doctor Watson praised it highly.”

As the person who edited Doctor Watson’s sometimes euphoric accounts he could well believe it.

“Perhaps,” he suggested to lift Holmes’ misery. “If you attempted third person narrative?”

It certainly couldn’t make it worse.

spacemutineer.livejournal.com

Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's TV adaptation of The Mazarin Stone. If you haven't seen this episode yet, you can find it at YouTube and on DVD. Follow me behind the jump for my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!

Canon discussion for The Mazarin Stone is available in this week's canon discussion post.

( Onward to Granada talk - The Mazarin Stone )

spacemutineer.livejournal.com

Welcome back, everyone! Let's have some canon Sherlock Holmes discussion, shall we? What did you all think of The Mazarin Stone? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and questions, which are behind the jump. Please add your own in the comments!

Discussion about the Granada TV adaptation of this story is available in this week's Granada discussion post.

( Onward to canon talk - The Mazarin Stone )

spacemutineer.livejournal.com

Hello, friends! Welcome back. Let's have some fun. For this Sunday's Sherlock Holmes canon reading and writing pleasure, we'll be taking on The Mazarin Stone. Echoes of the past resurface when Holmes faces another would-be assassin, but the detective has no intention of stopping until the stone is found.

We'll be discussing the Granada TV adaptation of The Mazarin Stone as well on Sunday. You can catch it on YouTube and DVD.

Here are your completely optional prompts for MAZA. Feel free to use one, both, or neither.

Optional prompt #1: imitation

Optional prompt #2: Billy!

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shouldboverthis.livejournal.com

I return with catch-up fics! Sorry for the dropping in and out.

Canon Story: His Last Bow
Author: shouldboverthis
Rating: G
Warnings: None

I have grown rusty in my dotage. It should have been as easy to remove the bastard American ‘slang’ from my mental attic as it was to remove the wretched beard from my chin, but to my horror, I found the words of our American cousins and the sounds of their flat vowels dropping from my mouth for months.

Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Rating: G (Implied Holmes/Watson)
Warnings: None

To my sorrow, Watson could never be persuaded to share my little cottage with me in our declining years as I had long hoped. A lasting sense of propriety governed his actions, for what might have seemed natural--the sharing of a flat by two men of limited means—would appear odd for two comfortably situated retired men.

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Rating: G and PG respectively
Warnings: Suggestion of impropriety in second and Holmes/Watson
Author's Notes: Two, unrelated

How many times have I, his dearest friend, been the victim of Holmes’ ‘practical jokes’? I fear that it has aged me terribly. I have warned him that someday this penchant for revealing his solutions to clients in the most dramatic way possible will send some poor soul into an apoplectic fit and he will have blood on his hands.

***

Though there were rumors about Holmes’ engagement of Billy as a live-in pageboy in which the word pederasty featured in hushed tones, I knew that there was nothing in them. Rumors had abounded about our relationship as well when we shared the flat. I knew for a fact that Holmes’ taste ran towards a more mature, military type of man.

Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: Two, unrelated

How delighted I was that Holmes found a better use for his syringe in the case I came to call ‘The Missing Three-Quarter,’ than its previous purpose. For in using it in aid of a case, I knew that he had truly exorcised its hold and it had become but one more tool in his arsenal, no longer his master.

***

Holmes on a bicycle is a remarkable sight, for he seems to be made entirely of jutting angles: pointy-toed shoes on the pedals, bony knees rising and falling, sharp elbows sticking out like a wind-up contraption, long back in a straight line as he leans forward over his handlebars, completed by his beaked nose like the prow of a ship.

tweedisgood.livejournal.com

Getting somewhat repetitive, this really isn't one of ACD's gems, sorry. All the witty meta has been used :-)

The Mazarin Stone

Title Vivat

Author

tweedisgood

Rating G

“You won't die in your bed, Holmes”. I told him it did not matter. Dissembler that I am: I want to live as long a life as the next fellow. So long as the next fellow is John Watson, and he is content – nay, eager – to share its adventures until our very last day. Vivat Semper Amicitia.

wild-huntress.livejournal.com

Canon story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: What’s a little public censure, when the cause is just?
Author: Rebecca (wild_huntress)
Rating: G
Author’s note: 1) I’m not sure about the legality of cross-dressing in Victorian Britain and my research attempts didn’t get far - but I was shocked that Holmes actually does so in a canonical story. 2) I had pledged not to contribute to the proliferation of scenes where Watson is so shocked at Holmes’ disguises that you would think he never noticed that his best friend of years/decades does this - but this really is a special case. 3) Work, grad school applications and trying to finish an actual Holmes pastiche/homage have kept me busy - but it’s good to be back here!

“Madam, I - good heavens, Holmes!”

“I thought you might be surprised, Watson. Skirts and a lady’s calling card do wonders. My day has been most effective -”

“You’ve been dressed like this all day? In public? Is that legal?”

“Well, I would hardly expend such energy just to alarm you. And what’s a little risk in a just cause?”

Current Mood: amused

love-bug-54.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Title: Two Doctors
Author:

love_bug_54
Rating: PG
Warnings: Slash, but not graphic

“Watson, what is this?”

“You know it’s the Strand, Holmes.”

“This terrible, derivative story – ‘Mazarin Stone’ – this is not one of yours, is it?”

“You know it isn’t. You know I was in hospital when it was due. Conan Doyle wrote it.”

Holmes considered, recalling that fearful time, and reaching for Watson, whispered into his ear, “You’re forgiven, my love.”

castiron.livejournal.com

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Title: Technology
Author: Castiron
Rating: G

It is a delight to fool a criminal by simulation; the wax figure in the chair, of course, is an old trick, but the gramophone is a new and effective one.

I must take care, though, and remember that if I can use it against a criminal, a criminal can use it against me. They will learn these tricks too.

flawedamythyst.livejournal.com

The last three weeks, all in one go to catch up.

Canon Story: His Last Bow
Author:

flawedamythyst
Rating: G

Two years of mangling my native language took several weeks to put completely behind me, but there were benefits. I am not sure which amused me more: the startled look on my brother's face when I asked for his glad hand, or Watson's collapse into laughter at my automatic exclamation of 'darn it' after dropping a book on my foot.

Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Author:

flawedamythyst
Pairing: Holmes&Watson
Rating: G

Standing by the pool where McPherson met his death, the frustration of knowing that I was missing something burnt through me. Two things, I should say – one fact, hovering just out of reach, and one Watson to whom I could have laid out the data in order to sound out a solution, missing from his place at my side.

Canon Story: The Mazarin Stone
Author:

flawedamythyst
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Rating: G

I would not usually have allowed being addressed as 'Holmes' in that overly-condescending tone by such a man as the Count to trouble me, but it had been too long since I had seen my Watson and heard his more pleasant voice call me the same. I did not wish the memory of it to be drowned out so quickly.

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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.”

Current Mood: mischievous

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60 word ficlets for the 60 ACD Sherlock Holmes canon cases

Entries tagged with canon: maza

The Mazarin Stone: The Author

The Mazarin Stone: Billy the Page-Boy

The Mazarin Stone: Things Get Heated

Canon Discussion: The Mazarin Stone

Sherlock60: The Story Continues... with "The Mazarin Stone"

MAZA: Deadline, CREE: Sweet Dream, LION: Code

BLAN: Following the Example and MAZA: Quite the Mystery

The Mazarin Stone: Punchline

The Mazarin Stone: The Pigeon at the Minories

The Mazarin Stone: The Agent

Granada Discussion Post: The Mazarin Stone

Canon Discussion Post: The Mazarin Stone

Coming this Sunday at Sherlock60: The Mazarin Stone

Multiple Fics: His Last Bow, The Lion's Mane, The Mazarin Stone and The Missing Three-Quarter

Late again: The Mazarin Stone: Vivat

The Mazarin Stone: What's a little public censure, when the cause is just?

The Mazarin Stone: Two Doctors

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone: Technology

His Last Bow, The Lion's Mane & The Mazarin Stone

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone: Folderol

MAZA -- The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

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