#illu acd

[hudders-and-hiddles]

Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins. I had asked him whether anything was stirring...

someone find me a ouija board because acd and i need to have words

[astudyincanon]

For the week of September 26th - October 2nd, we will be tackling

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (#ILLU ACD)

This week we’re on to The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, which was first published in the US in Collier’s in November 1924 and in the UK in The Strand in February and March 1925. It comes in a little under 10,000 words.

Feel free to read at your own pace throughout the week. We will be tracking the tags for the story and posting what we find as the week goes on. (Reminder because tumblr is tumblr: if you’re going to tag us or the story, make sure it’s in the first five tags, or we won’t see it.)

[acdhw]

A pattern or a coincidence? 3GAR and ILLU were published in October and November 1924 respectively; 3GAR takes place in the end of June, 1902, and ILLU begins on September 3, 1902. Watson and Holmes get injured in turn in these stories. Kinda like companion pieces or mutual hurt/comfort.

@astudyincanon, @sarahthecoat, @hudders-and-hiddles—I just tagged you guys who were in the current discussion 

[gralto]

Watson, please 😲

The Adventure of The Illustrious Client

[holmesguy]

There was a curious secretive streak in the man which led to many dramatic effects, but left even his closest friend guessing as to what his exact plans might be. He pushed to an extreme the axiom that the only safe plotter was he who plotted alone. I was nearer him than anyone else, and yet I was always conscious of the gap between.

John Watson talking about Sherlock Holmes in The Illustrious Client.

[hudders-and-hiddles]

following all this with the immediate no homo move of i was living in my own rooms in queen anne street at the time as if that really counters the enormous yes homo of the turkish bath scene

[hudders-and-hiddles]

like please picture john looking at sherlock wrapped in his sheet on the sofa in the middle of buckingham palace, and instead of asking him if he’s wearing pants, asking if anything is stirring asld;ka;lskdlaskj

[gralto]

“Oh, yes you do, McMurdo,” cried Sherlock Holmes genially. “I don’t think you can have forgotten me. Don’t you remember that amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison’s rooms on the night of your benefit four years back?”

“Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!” roared the prize-fighter. “God’s truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o’ standin’ there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the jaw, I’d ha’ known you without a question. Ah, you’re one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy.” ( The Sign of Four)

11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. (A Study In Scarlet)