Classic Sherlock Holmes fanworks exchange

Title: The Violin of Toten Hall
Recipient: saki101
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Holmes, Watson
Warnings: None
Summary: Holmes and Watson are on a case of strange music in the night.
Disclaimer: All is thanks to Arthur Conan Doyle and his delightful creations.

( Rarely during my long friendship with Sherlock Holmes... )

Title: Rewriting History
Recipient: methylviolet10b
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, past John Watson/Mary Morstan, mentions of Mycroft Holmes and the Forrester family (from The Sign of Four)
Warnings: Discussion of depression and concern about the possibility of self-harm (no one is harmed in the course of the fic)
Length: 10,000 words
Summary: A correspondence between Holmes and Watson in the immediate aftermath of the Great War in which they discuss questions of history both public and personal.
Author’s note: Here are a few terms that might need defining: “Tommies” = British infantry soldiers; “CCS” = Casualty Clearing Station, the WWI version of field hospitals; “pozzy” = jam preserves.

( My dear Holmes... )

Title: The Adventure of the Devil’s Snare
Recipient: sanspatronymic
Author: [redacted]
Rating: Teen/PG-13
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, John Openshaw; mentions of Mary Watson and Mrs Hudson
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Watson (at the time of the case); Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (unspecified later time)
Warnings: References to atrocities committed in the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras; canon-typical violence; canon references; Victorian-era racial terminology and attitudes; a more-or-less verbatim quote from The Five Orange Pips reworked into the story as a ‘resource’
Summary: “Of all the mixture of half-truths, gross oversimplifications, and farrago of lies I have sent him over the years, the Adventure of the Five Orange Pips stands out as one of the most extraordinary taradiddles that ever masqueraded as a truthful account.”
Word Count: 7,625
Author’s Notes: As you might guess from the above, The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips never made sense to me as written. I’ve taken your prompt of “a fondness for 'deleted scene' type works (ie, something that would fit nicely into a hole left in a canon story)” as inspiration and…well, pretty thoroughly rewritten the entire thing. I hope it pleases you!
Special thanks to: [redacted] for the beta
Disclaimer: The original story and characters belong to Doyle; all mistakes are my own.


(  Doctor Doyle – my editor and publisher, insofar as he takes public credit as the ‘author’ for my work … )