[text][the adventure of the initial advertisement]

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Consulting detective services available.

Specialties include solving the apparently unsolveable, chemistry, criminal subcultures & serial killers.

Fees negotiated on sliding scale, will work pro bono

[It takes a second, but he adds]

or for tea & soup.

-SH.

Comments

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[snarkypotions]

Ah, I must be mistaking you for someone else then.

_{Though I didn't think the name was particularly common...}

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Holmes. Consulting detective.

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

_{[Too much coincidence.]}

Do you know a man named John Watson then?

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Of course. Is that how you know me?

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

In... a way, I suppose.

Does the name, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ring any bells?

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Not a one.

Could you please explain what you're driving at?

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

He was an author of the late 19th, early 20th century. Perhaps his most famous works are the volumes on a detective named Sherlock Holmes with a companion named Dr. John Watson.

Does that shed some light?

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

An odd quirk of this multiverse business, I suppose.

You don't happen to have a copy?

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

I do.

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Could I trouble you for it?

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

That depends on what I'll get in return for said trouble.

[Audio]

[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Yes?

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

You make the offer, and if it's interesting enough, I might be convinced to add in that tea and soup.

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not waste my time.

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

What makes you think I'll waste it, Mr. Holmes? Surely coming up with an offer of suitable interest to a man whom you can only make judgments on based on the sense of hearing rather than sight is more challenging than doing nothing and letting your mind rot, no?

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

I have more to judge you on than my sense of hearing. I began reading back through your feed the moment you contacted me.

[Audio]

[snarkypotions]

I would have been disappointed had you not. So then, what can you tell me about myself? Under a locked filter, if you would please. I don't need my private business broadcast more than it already has been.

[Audio]

[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

For the book.

[Audio] Sorry for threadjack!

[istoppedtime.livejournal.com]

[... okay what.

A third voice joins the conversation. An irritated one.]

Cut the crap.

[Audio] no worries.

[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Oh?

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[istoppedtime.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character. What's your real name?

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Holmes.

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[istoppedtime.livejournal.com]

You're not gonna get far with that, smartass.

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[lostwoutmyblogr.livejournal.com]

Although I realize apparently, in some universes, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character, I can assure you this is my true identity.

[Audio]

[istoppedtime.livejournal.com]

Could be, but more likely you're just nuts.