The Three Gables
Oct. 27th, 2018 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahthecoatThis story feels like the opposite-day version of SCAN in a way. The lady: Ms Klein (Ms Adler) is about to marry: a noble (a professional) for ambition (for love) having rejected: a professional (a noble) who loved her (who wanted to possess her). The McGuffin is: a manuscript (a photograph) connected to the previous affair, and she has: hired ruffians (been subjected to ruffians) to obtain it (trying to get it from her). Holmes: lets her get away with it for some reason (is outsmarted by her) although it’s clear that she’s an awful person (and he learns to admire her as a truly good person) There are several other points of contrast, it’s quite odd, and I agree with the annotation in Baring-Gould that Holmes seems out of character in several places.
ACD tropes: the perp tries to decoy the mark out of her home in order to get at something in it. (REDH, 3GAR, STOC, subverted in RETI and ILLU when Holmes does the decoying.
ETA, also i think the word “queer” is used at least four times, could be a personal best for a single story? ;)
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ACD tropes: the perp tries to decoy the mark out of her home in order to get at something in it. (REDH, 3GAR, STOC, subverted in RETI and ILLU when Holmes does the decoying.
ETA, also i think the word “queer” is used at least four times, could be a personal best for a single story? ;)
acd 3gab 3gab acd astudyincanon acd scan opposite day acd tropes
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Oct 27th, 2018
