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acdholmesfest*flourish of trumpets*
The Grand Reveal. Please go and acknowledge your compliments in person, cross=post as desired and recipients, if you have not already thanked your giftor, get right on that.
We have an A03 collection at which you are welcome to post/link, HERE
Meanwhile, in the restaurant of the Landsdowne Hotel, Eastbourne, Sussex, some time in 1905:
“Watson, it was not an “adventure”. A puzzle, certainly. A mystery, if you insist. But there is nothing ‘adventurous’ about tiresome conversations with tiresome people and a trip to Cambridgeshire to uncover a mere domestic tragedy"
I was inclined to humour him. It had been a very good dinner, paid for, at my insistence, from my latest royalty cheque, and now we were expansive over a brace of Havanas and a bottle of Armagnac.
“Surely it could be argued that the client had an adventure, albeit an unhappy one.”
“Hmm. Nevertheless, I am bound to say this latest collection shows a sad lack of imaginative variety. The Adventure of…The Adventure of… and so on for the entire book.”
Sherlock Holmes waved his cigarette hand with a flourish and almost set fire to a passing waiter.
“I thought you never read them.”
He laid his unoccupied hand flat on the cloth and examined its pristine fingernails.
“I always take an interest in an Index, dear boy.”
“It is not a simple matter, coming up with a title for a short story. To capture the heart of a case and to present it in a way that people want to read more. Adventure is what people want, and that is what I give them.”
His expression softened, just a fraction. “And what I give you.”
For my part, I was not afraid to smile outright, and to reach for his hand across the table. He allowed me to press it, for a moment.
“Not just the cases, Holmes. You surely know that.”
“I know it.”
As if to break the spell, to show how much he detested sentiment, he went back on the attack, although he chose another target.
"In any case, I know that Doyle has the final say: he has a very well-developed commercial sense.” It was not a compliment. “Say you had entirely free choice: what would we see?”
“Certainly not ‘Treatise on the Deductive and Inductive Methods in Detection, parts one to sixty’,” I dared.
He sighed. “That particular manuscript was clearly not as well hidden as I had thought.”
“It was in the pile of papers covering the acid burnhole in the hearth-rug, which I tripped over last Thursday night. What about ‘Sherlock Holmes Glues his Finger in a Keyhole'? Or ‘Watson is Right After All about Mrs Felton’s Pearls’? Or ‘This Story is A Patchwork of Details from Six Different Cases to Avoid Being Sued for Libel’?"
“’Adventures’ it is, then. How much to replace the rug?”
[p.s. absolutely no disrespect intended to any of you who did choose to name your story an ‘Adventure’ – I just noticed that every single one of 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' collection is so named, and that with various folk reporting struggling with titles – well, inspiration is not to be brushed off lightly]
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elina_elsu created Reflection for naivewaltz
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spacefall created Untitled for rhuia
sherlockholmes created Untitled for chiapetzukamori
vernets created Practical Gardening for fleetwood_mouse
fictionforlife created As They Always Have (Part 2) for omelton
iguana_dog created Positively Predatory for tweedisgood
omelton created Music for koshartu
lynndyre created The Druids of Lanyon Dolmen for iguana_dog
Podfic:fennishjournal read tweedisgood’s story Frail Memorial for garonne
Fic and podfic:venturous1 wrote and read The Case of the Purloined Apparel for spacefall
Fic:
tweedisgood wrote Written on Sand for marta_bee
gardnerhill wrote On the Way Home for lynndyre
mistyzeo wrote The Effects of Therapeutic Massage on a Concerned Physician for alafaye
alafaye wrote The Keeping of a Retired Detective for desecrets
koshartu wrote Stuck Underground for fabelschwester
colebaltblue wrote The Adventure of the Notorious Canary Trainer for thesmallhobbit
marta_bee wrote Dark Have Been My Dreams as a pinch hit formonkeybard
tripleransom wrote Love the Sinner for fictionforlife
tripleransom also wrote Prelude and Fog as a pinch hit for methylviolet10b
rhuia wrote The False and True for elina_elsu
spacemutineer wrote Until Then as a pinch hit for capt_facepalm
stardust_made wroteThe Bearded Man as a pinch hit for tazlet
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kindkit wrote The Murmuring of Innumerable Bees for vernets
monkeybard wroteThe Adventure of the Doctor’s Dilemma for colebaltblue
kathie_d wrote The Sea of Lies for tripleransom
ob_af wrote Unseasonable Spring for ladyblank
mainecoon76 wrote Compensation for a Sense for ob_af
marta_bee wrote The Adventure of the Dancing Man for lightinastorm
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thesmallhobbit wrote The Disappearing Case for kathie_d
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fleetwood_mouse wrote The Value of Surprise for fennishjournal
garonne wrote The Incident with the Bicycle for gardnerhill
desecrets wrote Here’s a Hand (to Lay on Your Open Palm) for rojo3131
The Grand Reveal. Please go and acknowledge your compliments in person, cross=post as desired and recipients, if you have not already thanked your giftor, get right on that.
We have an A03 collection at which you are welcome to post/link, HERE
Meanwhile, in the restaurant of the Landsdowne Hotel, Eastbourne, Sussex, some time in 1905:
“Watson, it was not an “adventure”. A puzzle, certainly. A mystery, if you insist. But there is nothing ‘adventurous’ about tiresome conversations with tiresome people and a trip to Cambridgeshire to uncover a mere domestic tragedy"
I was inclined to humour him. It had been a very good dinner, paid for, at my insistence, from my latest royalty cheque, and now we were expansive over a brace of Havanas and a bottle of Armagnac.
“Surely it could be argued that the client had an adventure, albeit an unhappy one.”
“Hmm. Nevertheless, I am bound to say this latest collection shows a sad lack of imaginative variety. The Adventure of…The Adventure of… and so on for the entire book.”
Sherlock Holmes waved his cigarette hand with a flourish and almost set fire to a passing waiter.
“I thought you never read them.”
He laid his unoccupied hand flat on the cloth and examined its pristine fingernails.
“I always take an interest in an Index, dear boy.”
“It is not a simple matter, coming up with a title for a short story. To capture the heart of a case and to present it in a way that people want to read more. Adventure is what people want, and that is what I give them.”
His expression softened, just a fraction. “And what I give you.”
For my part, I was not afraid to smile outright, and to reach for his hand across the table. He allowed me to press it, for a moment.
“Not just the cases, Holmes. You surely know that.”
“I know it.”
As if to break the spell, to show how much he detested sentiment, he went back on the attack, although he chose another target.
"In any case, I know that Doyle has the final say: he has a very well-developed commercial sense.” It was not a compliment. “Say you had entirely free choice: what would we see?”
“Certainly not ‘Treatise on the Deductive and Inductive Methods in Detection, parts one to sixty’,” I dared.
He sighed. “That particular manuscript was clearly not as well hidden as I had thought.”
“It was in the pile of papers covering the acid burnhole in the hearth-rug, which I tripped over last Thursday night. What about ‘Sherlock Holmes Glues his Finger in a Keyhole'? Or ‘Watson is Right After All about Mrs Felton’s Pearls’? Or ‘This Story is A Patchwork of Details from Six Different Cases to Avoid Being Sued for Libel’?"
“’Adventures’ it is, then. How much to replace the rug?”
[p.s. absolutely no disrespect intended to any of you who did choose to name your story an ‘Adventure’ – I just noticed that every single one of 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' collection is so named, and that with various folk reporting struggling with titles – well, inspiration is not to be brushed off lightly]
Art:
elina_elsu created Reflection for naivewaltzfabelschwester created Cover for her story Lending a Hand for mistyzeospacefall created Untitled for rhuiasherlockholmes created Untitled for chiapetzukamorivernets created Practical Gardening for fleetwood_mousefictionforlife created As They Always Have (Part 2) for omeltoniguana_dog created Positively Predatory for tweedisgoodomelton created Music for koshartu lynndyre created The Druids of Lanyon Dolmen for iguana_dogPodfic:
fennishjournal read tweedisgood’s story Frail Memorial for garonneFic and podfic:
venturous1 wrote and read The Case of the Purloined Apparel for spacefallFic:
tweedisgood wrote Written on Sand for marta_beegardnerhill wrote On the Way Home for lynndyremistyzeo wrote The Effects of Therapeutic Massage on a Concerned Physician for alafayealafaye wrote The Keeping of a Retired Detective for desecretskoshartu wrote Stuck Underground for fabelschwestercolebaltblue wrote The Adventure of the Notorious Canary Trainer for thesmallhobbitmarta_bee wrote Dark Have Been My Dreams as a pinch hit formonkeybardtripleransom wrote Love the Sinner for fictionforlifetripleransom also wrote Prelude and Fog as a pinch hit for methylviolet10brhuia wrote The False and True for elina_elsuspacemutineer wrote Until Then as a pinch hit for capt_facepalmstardust_made wroteThe Bearded Man as a pinch hit for tazletmethylviolet10b wroteThe Revelation of the Tired Captain for kindkitkindkit wrote The Murmuring of Innumerable Bees for vernetsmonkeybard wroteThe Adventure of the Doctor’s Dilemma for colebaltbluekathie_d wrote The Sea of Lies for tripleransomob_af wrote Unseasonable Spring for ladyblankmainecoon76 wrote Compensation for a Sense for ob_afmarta_bee wrote The Adventure of the Dancing Man for lightinastormladyblank wrote The Grand Cure for sherlockholmescapt_facepalm wrote Detente for mainecoon76thesmallhobbit wrote The Disappearing Case for kathie_drojo3131 wrote The Small Knife for venturous1fleetwood_mouse wrote The Value of Surprise for fennishjournalgaronne wrote The Incident with the Bicycle for gardnerhilldesecrets wrote Here’s a Hand (to Lay on Your Open Palm) for rojo3131
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