Fic: Marble Arch: G

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Title: Marble Arch
Form/Wordcount: 100
Characters/Pairings: Dr John Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: From 1851 to 1968 there was a three roomed police station inside Marble Arch.  It had its use for Mr Sherlock Holmes.
A drabble written for Challenge 29: Arch on DW's DrabbleZone

Lestrade had invited us onto the roof of Marble Arch.  From there Holmes was able to watch his suspect moving amongst the crowd milling around Speaker’s Corner.  To the casual observer he might be taken to be a pickpocket, but the man was not there to steal small items from the unwary.

Suddenly, Holmes shouted, “Now!”

At a signal from Lestrade two officers moved through the crowd to apprehend both the suspect, now in possession of a small package, and the man who had passed it to him.

The package of state papers would be returned to their rightful owner.

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ah, very nice. I had to look up Marble Arch, but I imagine this could well be filed under the 'espionage stories.'

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

An iconic London sight - and one which I discovered fitted perfectly into a Holmesian espionage story.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there used to be a police station inside Marble Arch - or indeed there were rooms in it at all ^_^ That surprised me - I'd assumed it was all purely decorative.

Very neat use of the location. And I imagine there are plenty more stories that could use the police station too.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I'd assumed the same until I was looking at the history of Marble Arch, wondering if I could make use of it as a location for the prompt. So finding out about the police station and how they did watch for trouble at Speaker's Corner - apparently they could have 100 policemen in there in readiness - was just perfect.

And I thought I'd post it here because others might be just as interested.

[debriswoman]

Well done:-)
Intriguing setting.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was a great setting for a ficlet. I may use it again ;)