Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
May. 19th, 2004 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prof_pangaeaHOLY LORD, The Abergavenny Murder was amazing! It's just Holmes and Watson, in Baker STreet, theorising for 45 minutes, and it is magnificent. Well, there is the man who bursts in and dies in the sitting room at the beginning... but that's what prompts all the brilliance! And these are just a few out of many great examples right here:
Holmes: Help me turn him over.
Watson: Ah, do you think we should?
Holmes: Well there's precious little more to be told from a view of his back.
Watson: But shouldn't we leave him exactly where he fell for the police to see?
Holmes: The police? They'll look at him and make their one stunning deduction: "Blimey, Guvernor, he's snuffed it", and then they'll cart the unfortunate gentlemen away. We could stip him naked, wash the body, anoint him with stawberry jam, and then cut off his head, and your average Scotland Yarder would scarcely even notice!
Holmes: Now I want you to drip wax across the back of our client's left hand.
Watson: May I ask why?
Holmes: Well of course you may, but I'd hate to spoil the suspense.
Holmes: Would you mind putting [the candle] back?
Watson: Yes, my pleasure. I always enjoy looking at the decor in your bedroom.
Holmes. Hm. Really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoonplay.shtml
Holmes: Help me turn him over.
Watson: Ah, do you think we should?
Holmes: Well there's precious little more to be told from a view of his back.
Watson: But shouldn't we leave him exactly where he fell for the police to see?
Holmes: The police? They'll look at him and make their one stunning deduction: "Blimey, Guvernor, he's snuffed it", and then they'll cart the unfortunate gentlemen away. We could stip him naked, wash the body, anoint him with stawberry jam, and then cut off his head, and your average Scotland Yarder would scarcely even notice!
Holmes: Now I want you to drip wax across the back of our client's left hand.
Watson: May I ask why?
Holmes: Well of course you may, but I'd hate to spoil the suspense.
Holmes: Would you mind putting [the candle] back?
Watson: Yes, my pleasure. I always enjoy looking at the decor in your bedroom.
Holmes. Hm. Really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoonplay.shtml
