Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Read Along!

[Bee]

/crickets

lol I still haven't read the story. over a week later! /flops

To be honest, me neither. Let's give it one more attempt for this weekend?

We can at least try? Though I think @InspectorCaracal is currently dealing with a neverending cycle of sickness at home, and might just not be up for it...? But I think at this point anything goes lol

[InspectorCaracal]

things are looking up slowly here so I'll give it a try too

[Bee]

So we're reading The Naval Treaty

Has Holmes ever been this mean?? I kinda wanted to punch him o.o

[Bee]

I see my half hearted attempt to start a conversation has failed

Must try harder

[Bee]

Right, so The Adventure of the Naval Treaty, or, Why Should the Bell Ring?

"You are the stormy petrel of crime, Watson."

I don't understand this quote at all but I love it. Stormy petrel of crime!

Anyway, I swear I really liked this one, actually! The non-premeditated crime (that wasn't a murder! \0/) with circumstances that didn't add up, the whole thing was a nice compromise between the impossible-to-solve featureless cases, and a satisfactory story? This one could make a fantastic movie, imo, with all those red herrings and side characters.

...yes, I wish this was a Poirot novel. /sighs

"You suspect some one?"

"I suspect myself."

"What!" ​

"Of coming to conclusions too rapidly."

"Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea."

"The board-schools."

"Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules ​with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future. I suppose that man Phelps does not drink?"

I suppose Holmes is drunk??

"[...] I've been making a few independent inquiries, you see. But to-day must be a day of inquiries."

"My practic—" I began.

"Oh, if you find your own cases more interesting than mine—" said Holmes, with some asperity.

"I was going to say that my practice could get along very well for a day or two, since it is the slackest time in the year."

"Excellent," said he, recovering his good-humor.

This is where I wanted to punch him, tbh. Boo!!

[InspectorCaracal]

I fell down a super steep depression hole but I'm gonna chime in tomorrow, even though it's super late, BECAUSE.

Before that, though:

"[...] I've been making a few independent inquiries, you see. But to-day must be a day of inquiries."

"My practic—" I began.

"Oh, if you find your own cases more interesting than mine—" said Holmes, with some asperity.

"I was going to say that my practice could get along very well for a day or two, since it is the slackest time in the year."

"Excellent," said he, recovering his good-humor.

This is where I wanted to punch him, tbh. Boo!!

This is the one thing you quoted that I immediately remembered even though I haven't re-read the story yet and IK RIGHT. He is such a grumpy child here lmfao

[Bee]

I fell down a super steep depression hole but I'm gonna chime in tomorrow, even though it's super late, BECAUSE.

Before that, though:

"[...] I've been making a few independent inquiries, you see. But to-day must be a day of inquiries."

"My practic—" I began.

"Oh, if you find your own cases more interesting than mine—" said Holmes, with some asperity.

"I was going to say that my practice could get along very well for a day or two, since it is the slackest time in the year."

"Excellent," said he, recovering his good-humor.

This is where I wanted to punch him, tbh. Boo!!

This is the one thing you quoted that I immediately remembered even though I haven't re-read the story yet and IK RIGHT. He is such a grumpy child here lmfao

He is, it's unbelievable

[Bee]

@thiskurt @InspectorCaracal

hey hey

[Bee]

Does anybody still want to do this?

[thiskurt]

Does anybody still want to do this?

I don't know where we left off? Did he die yet?