Fic: Hard-boiled egg: Gen
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holmes_minorTitle: Hard-boiled egg
Rating: Gen
Length: 221b
Summary: Holmes and Watson discuss the poisoning of a paranoid peer.
“Holmes, you astound me!”
Holmes gave a well-worn smirk of gratification. “It is a rather sad story, my dear Watson. Despite the rumours, Sir Matthew wasn’t dotty or let us say he wasn’t incorrect on one point of his tirades. There was someone trying to kill him, and they succeeded. A bold scheme. They killed him in front of a whole room of witnesses.”
“I feel sorry for Sir Matthew,” said Watson. “He thought that reducing his diet to only hard-boiled eggs would save him. It was poison he feared.”
“And it was poison he got and in a fatal dose,” said Holmes. “But he was correct on another point: it is, if not impossible, at least very difficult to poison a hard-boiled egg, and to the best of my knowledge, none of Sir Matthew’s eggs were ever poisoned. But there are many ways to poison.”
“A lack of imagination killed him?”
“A poetic notion, but I prefer to lay the blame closer to the source. The murderer grew the plant in his greenhouse and extracted the poison from the plant and arranged that rake in the precise place where Sir Matthew would step on it, knowing the handle would cut him.”
“And thus, Sir Matthew would be in need of what the killer had right at hand: a poisoned-soaked bandage.”
Rating: Gen
Length: 221b
Summary: Holmes and Watson discuss the poisoning of a paranoid peer.
“Holmes, you astound me!”
Holmes gave a well-worn smirk of gratification. “It is a rather sad story, my dear Watson. Despite the rumours, Sir Matthew wasn’t dotty or let us say he wasn’t incorrect on one point of his tirades. There was someone trying to kill him, and they succeeded. A bold scheme. They killed him in front of a whole room of witnesses.”
“I feel sorry for Sir Matthew,” said Watson. “He thought that reducing his diet to only hard-boiled eggs would save him. It was poison he feared.”
“And it was poison he got and in a fatal dose,” said Holmes. “But he was correct on another point: it is, if not impossible, at least very difficult to poison a hard-boiled egg, and to the best of my knowledge, none of Sir Matthew’s eggs were ever poisoned. But there are many ways to poison.”
“A lack of imagination killed him?”
“A poetic notion, but I prefer to lay the blame closer to the source. The murderer grew the plant in his greenhouse and extracted the poison from the plant and arranged that rake in the precise place where Sir Matthew would step on it, knowing the handle would cut him.”
“And thus, Sir Matthew would be in need of what the killer had right at hand: a poisoned-soaked bandage.”
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