[identity profile] mafief.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Dirt
Author: Mafief
Rating: G


The floor has been dirtier since Vincent started with his pictures and it has taken me ages to clean. I complained to Vincent, and he said he would convinced Mr Wilson to up my wages. The nice clerk convinced the stingy man.

Now he’s gone. Mr Wilson even eyes me suspiciously and I’ve been returned to my previous my wage.
[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Title: The Red-Headed League: Whiskey-and-Soda
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Just after-case musings.

***

“Sometimes,” I said into my drink, “I think it ought not to be a crime to gull the stupid.”

Holmes tsk’ed. “The gulled often have families who suffer; we end the business for them, if for no other reason. Consider, Watson; had Wilson been less idiotic we would have missed this robbery until after the fact.”

“Mm.”

We clinked glasses.
[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: An Unexpected After Effect (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Poor Mr Jones.  It is very unfortunate he has bright red hair.  I could barely refrain from laughing in his presence, which would have been completely unprofessional given that he is my patient.  Luckily he had left the premises before I caught Mary’s eye and we both began to laugh.  Jabez Wilson does indeed have a lot to answer for.
 
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-headed League
Title: Fiery-locks and the Three Chairs
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “Try the settee,” said Holmes… I… indeed was nodding myself…


“Ah, perfect timing, Watson...”

“Yes! I can see… somebody’s sitting in my chair! Hello, Fiery-locks!”

“Watson!”

“Don’t worry, I’ll find another chair. No, too hard… This one’s too soft… Maybe I should just lie down...”

“Try the settee, old fellow. Mrs. Hudson! Dr. Watson’s been at the brandy again. Perhaps some coffee—? Oh, never mind. Somebody’s sleeping in my bed.”
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.



Art Thief

by Neal Bowers



Note from Rachel: The delightful hauteur of the thief's voice in this poem reminds me of John Clay. One does get the sense that he feels his marks should be honored to have their belongings taken with such impeccable style.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the jueju. (The link takes you back to a previous poetry page.)

But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Red-headed League in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Red-headed League and the chosen topic is Banking.

A few facts:

Discussion continues... )
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[identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Rating: Gen
Summary: Blank verse based on the line: 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico' you know and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid.

My poor little reputation
sails upon the sea
of client conversation
over coffee, tea.
Along comes an augmentation
of wind, mightily
gales blow. Off course, destination,
dashed upon the rocks,
Omne ignotum pro magnifico
toll the bells, chime the clocks,
as my little reputation
is wrecked verily.
One splinter’s spared devastation,
crowned by Doctor’s ejaculation,
“Brilliant as ever to me!”
[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Title: The Red-Headed League: The Hardest Part
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Tom Petty was right.

***

My military experience prepared me for both ends of my work with Sherlock Holmes.

As a man of action I am instantly ready to give chase, collar a suspect, or strike a blow.

But a soldier’s life is also waiting – endless waiting, on guard and alert.

Once again, in a bank vault, I endure the surest test of my training.
 
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This Sunday, 27th November, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Red-headed League.

Watson calls round to Baker Street to find Holmes interviewing a client. Mr. Jabez Wilson has two points of interest - fiery red hair and a very strange story to tell...

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post, where we discuss a topic inspired by the canon story. And there’s Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page too - any poems written about this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post. Mrs. Hudson informs me that the poetry form being revisited this week is the jueju. And as always, her housemaid Rachel will be suggesting a poem for us to read, to give us added inspiration.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments.) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday. But don’t worry if you can’t join us then - we stay open for posting and commenting all week!
[identity profile] rachelindeed.livejournal.com
Author: [livejournal.com profile] rachelindeed
Canon Tale: The Norwood Builder
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Summary: Watson is skeptical.
Author's note: Includes references to The Red-Headed League as well.


“Dr. Verner has accepted my starting bid.”

“Congratulations!”

Watson smiled grimly. “Naturally, I cannot accept.”

My throat seized. How could he have seen my hand in the affair so quickly?

“A man who pays full price for real estate is as rare and sinister as a shop assistant who accepts half-pay. We should warn the nearest bank, don’t you think?”
[identity profile] morelindo.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red Headed League
Title: The Grand Gift of Silence
Author: [livejournal.com profile] morelindo
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: Based on the Granada show.

Watson had never been a man of many words, and Holmes seemed so curiously fond of his own voice that he never remarked on it. Yet the looks they exchanged during Jabez Wilson's story proved to Watson without a doubt that two people who were attuned to one another were capable of having entire conversations without ever speaking a word.
[identity profile] mundungus42.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-headed League (plus bonus Naval Treaty)
Title: A Change of Occupation
Author: [livejournal.com profile] mundungus42
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Note: As Mr. Thomas L. Strix has pointed out ("Concerning 'The Red-Headed League'"): "The Encyclopaedia Britannica - the 1875 edition, which is the one that must have been used- has 928 pages in Volume One, and doesn't reach the article on Attica until page 794 of Volume Two. Now, the average page of the Brittancia has 3,728 words. The calculation is simple. The pawnbroker says that he copied 6,419,616 words in eight weeks, working only four hours a day. That, gentlemen, is at the rate of 33,435 words per hour, of 557.25 words per minute. --from William S. Baring-Gould's The Annotated Sherlock Holmes

Two days after Dr. Watson's account of my adventure was published, a gentleman I didn't know entered my shop.

“Is it true, what was in The Strand?”

“Yes, milord,” I said.

He laid a sheaf of papers before me. “I would have ten copies by tomorrow morning.”

“Where should I send them?”

“Lord Holdhurst, Downing Street.”
[identity profile] kestrel337.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red Headed League
Title: Just One Question...
Author: Kestrel337
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Author's Notes:

He’d drunk for several nights on the story of the basement, the thieves, the arrest. It was only some weeks afterwards that Merryweather guiltily began to wonder. He tried not to think on it, because the explanation had been so tidily arranged. But finally, once the gin stopped flowing, he had to ask: what had they done with the dirt?
[identity profile] tripleransom.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-headed League
Title: The Best-Laid Plan
Author: [livejournal.com profile] tripleransom
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I took my inspiration from the Granada series and their premise that Moriarty was pulling John Clay's strings.

The Best-Laid Plan

John Clay's plan to steal the French gold was nearly flawless. Had it not been for the fortuitous circumstance of Mr Jabez Wilson calling upon my friend, no doubt the thieves would have got clean away.

But was John Clay indeed capable of such meticulous planning? Or, as Holmes suspected, was there another, more sinister intelligence behind the whole affair?
[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Strangeness of the World
Title: It Is A Strange World
Author:[livejournal.com profile] thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

It is with some incredulity that we have to report certain events from last week.  Supposedly an area off Fleet Street was filled with men having red hair, all apparently in pursuit of a position that specified someone of that appearance.  One must congratulate the fortunate successful applicant, but one wonders whether he will become engaged in some unpleasant experiment.
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Red-headed League
Title: Distinctive Features
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: ”It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”


“Good heavens, sir,” said Holmes. “You seem so familiar and yet… Your features are so commonplace. Undistinguished. A thought though! Perhaps if you had a decorative fringe betwixt nose and upper lip, it might…”

“Yes! Fine!” said Watson. “I simply felt like a change! But as it apparently troubles you so much, I shall regrow the damn moustache!”
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.


This week my featured form is the abecedarian. It seemed to fit in well with this week’s story.

Mr. Holmes, naturally, is very keen on encyclopaedic knowledge—arranging it all in his index. I had to remove his scrapbooks recently in order to dust the shelves, and afterwards joked I had developed Index Finger! He appeared somewhat bemused...

poets.org gives the following definition:

The abecedarian is an ancient poetic form guided by alphabetical order. Generally each line or stanza begins with the first letter of the alphabet and is followed by the successive letter, until the final letter is reached.


Example )


As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, clerihew, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Red-headed League in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This week we’re having a look at The Red-headed League. I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

Discussion continues... )
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This Sunday, 15th February, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Red-headed League.

Once again, Watson calls round to Baker Street, and finds Holmes in conversation with a Mr. Jabez Wilson. The "commonplace British tradesman" has one distinctive feature - his bright red hair. He also has a most curious tale to tell...

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post and Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page. Any poems inspired by this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments ^^) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday ^^
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[personal profile] vaysh
Canon Story: The Adventure of the Red-headed League
Title: Fiery Red Pride
Author: [livejournal.com profile] vaysh
Rating: G
Words: 60
Summary: The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair. In this minor point, Holmes was mistaken.


'Those canaries think they're so pretty,' Mr Wilson remarked as our last, bright blond customer left the pawn-shop, golden Bullingford watch back in the pocket of his waistcoat.

My employer turned to the small mirror behind the till and openly admired his own shock of fiery red hair.

I amiably agreed with him, a plan taking shape in my mind.

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