A Holmesian Solstice

Title: The Women in the Case
Recipient: sanguinity
Author: REDACTED
Verses: Enola Holmes, Russellverse, Peerless Peer
Characters/Pairings: Enola Holmes, Mary Russell, Nell Watson, various Moriarty women, Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Words: ~6700
Warnings: none
Summary:
An account from a cache of manuscripts attributed to Enola Holmes - which both answers a great many questions about significant women in the Holmesian canon, and raises a great many others.


Read on AO3: The Women in the Case

Title: Insoluble Puzzles
Recipient: graycardinal
Author: amindamazed
Verse: Charlotte Holmes, Mary Russell
Characters/Pairings: Charlotte Holmes, Araminta Holmes, Mary Russell, Leander Holmes, Jamie Watson
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mention of past (canon) traumatic events, including harm to animals. Not graphic.
Summary:
"Who would we be, we Holmeses, if not for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? Mere curiosities buried in old newspapers, forgotten mentions in mouldering secret government archives and unsealed police records? Or would we be something else we never thought — were explicitly trained not — to imagine?"

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Happy Holmestice, Gray Cardinal! I can't place all the blame for this fusion on your "Charlotte Holmes in the 22nd Century" but it was certainly an inspiration to look backward in a similar fashion. I also took the opportunity to take a closer look at "nice enough" Aunt Araminta, who is mentioned just a few times in the series. No doubt all of this will be jossed by The Case for Jamie although I hope we might at least meet Araminta there at last. I couldn't resist bringing her forward a bit as a conduit between Mary and Charlotte.

And in case no one else noticed Araminta Holmes the way I did, chapter 2 on AO3 is an appendix of her mentions in books 1 & 2.

Many thanks to [REDACTED] for beta and to the Holmestice Mods for their flexibility and patience.

Also on AO3: Insoluble Puzzles

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