A Holmesian Solstice

Title:Beloved Embrace
Recipient: gardnerhill
Artist/Vidder: 4thelneyj0nes
Verse:My Dearly Beloved Detective
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson.
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Illustration of Holmes and Watson from My Dearly Beloved Detective

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Title and Author: The Glorious Disguise, by starfishstar
Link to Story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27741514
Recipient: starfishstar
Podfic Reader: language_escapes
Verse: My Dearly Beloved Detective
Characters/Pairings: Shirley Holmes/Jane Watson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: On a quiet night in front of the fire at 221B Baker Street, Shirley tells Jane about the greatest disguise of her career.


Listen on AO3: The Glorious Disguise, by starfishstar

Title: The Glorious Disguise
Recipient: sanguinity
Author: starfishstar
Verse: My Dearly Beloved Detective
Characters/Pairings: Shirley Holmes/Jane Watson
Rating: PG
Words:2,700
Warnings: none
Summary: On a quiet night in front of the fire at 221B Baker Street, Shirley tells Jane about the greatest disguise of her career.

Notes:
Dear Sanguinity, you are a pillar of the Holmestice community in general, and an inspiration to me in particular, and here is a Holmestice treat for you! You asked what led Shirley and Jane to apply for these roles; and you often mention your love of “old and deep relationships with a lot of history in them.” I’ve tried to give you a little of both those things.

To those who may not know “My Dearly Beloved Detective”: In this ‘verse, Sherlock Holmes is fictional, but people kept looking for him and his detective skills, so eventually a real detective agency was set up at 221B Baker Street. Shirley Holmes and Jane Watson are the two women who stepped into those famous literary roles.

And by the way, in the film Shirley and Jane part ways at the end, but in my world that never happened. :-)

Thank you to colebaltblue for betaing and enthusiasm!

Read on AO3: The Glorious Disguise

Title: The Fixed Foot
Recipient: okapi1895
Author: starfishstar
Verse: My Dearly Beloved Detective
Characters: Shirley Holmes/Jane Watson
Rating: PG-13
Words: 2,600
Warnings: very brief non-graphic violence, reckless use of poetry

Summary: In a meeting of equal minds, who rescues whom?

Author notes:
For those who don’t know it, My Dearly Beloved Detective is a wonderfully goofy film (Scotland Yard constables performing song-and-dance routines in their pyjamas??) with a surprisingly melancholy heart. Shirley Holmes and her friend/assistant Jane Watson investigate a complicated case (set up by jealous Inspector Lester, who wants to take Shirley down for daring to be a better detective than him) that requires them to go undercover at a gentlemen’s club. Shirley pushes Jane into this disguise, and after they’re almost discovered, a painful scene ensues where Jane breaks down in tears, tells Shirley she’s demanding too much, and ultimately ends up accepting a marriage proposal from Robbie Summers, a man she’d previously turned down. This fic goes AU after that point!
Dear okapi, I had so much fun writing this for you and trying to include many of your requests, as well drawing inspiration from your thoughts about the film in your own fics and comments. I hope you enjoy this! And thank you so much to S. for betareading and enthusiasm!

Also on AO3: The Fixed Foot

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Title: Something Good (Will Come From That)
Recipient: gardnerhill
Author: sanguinity
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson; Holmes/Watson
Rating: General
Summary: One hundred years of moving pictures about Holmes and Watson.
Author Notes:

My deepest thanks to my collaborator and source-monkey, k_e_p, without whom this would have required twice the work and been half as good. Major thanks also to grrlpup, who watched many hours of source and many drafts of the vid, and to ghost_lingering, who provided excellent beta and technical advice.

If you spot an error in the source list, please say so. I am especially uncertain that I have credited the correct actors for Jighangsha (1951). If there’s anyone out there who can double-check against the in-film credits (which are in Bengali script), that would be a great boon, thank you.

gardnerhill, I trust balance has been maintained in the Force. ;-)

Also on AO3: "Something Good (Will Come From That)"

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Title: The Hue and Cry
Recipient: k_e_p
Author: garonne
Characters/Pairings: Shirley Holmes, Jane Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: An evening at home with a stack of newspapers.

Author's notes:This is based on the film My Dearly Beloved Detective, in which Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are fictional characters, but so many people came to Baker Street to seek their help that it was deemed necessary to install a pair of consulting detectives at the address -- and the best candidates for the job were two women named Shirley Holmes and Jane Watson.

This story takes place some time before the film.

Most of the newspaper extracts are real.

Many thanks to sanguinity for beta-reading!

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