The Missing Three Quarter
May. 7th, 2018 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahthecoatI was happy to find that there is a magpie audio book of this one! it’s been a very busy week bringing in the May but finally today I had time to listen.
This is one of those cases where nothing actually criminal has happened, but the rugby coach is worried that his star player has gone missing, so he goes to scotland yard first, and they send him to Holmes. By contrast, the rich lord that the missing fellow is heir to, can’t be bothered to look for him, and won’t be out of pocket for anyone else to do so. Well, since SCAN, Holmes knows what to make of these types. I enjoyed watching Holmes stick it in and turn it with that one.
This doesn’t seem to be a super shippy story, except for the fact that once they go to Cambridge to follow up on the one lead they have, Holmes wants Watson to be there even though he’s excluded from two whole days of actual investigation. It’s like, Holmes just wants to be able to come home to him at the inn where they are staying, which is pretty sweet. At the beginning of the story, Watson talks a bit about how his companion needs mental stimulation, though he has been weaning him off the drugs (yay) so maybe this is Watson as “sober companion” as well.
ACD completes his critique of the class system with the description of Godfrey’s now late wife. She was beautiful, smart, and good, and they were devoted to one another, but because she was from a “lower class”, the rich uncle would never have accepted her as his heir’s wife. He may have been a “lord”, but he was neither smart nor good, and his description when he enters leaves much to be desired. (again, contrasted with the description of Cyril Overton, the coach, who actually cares what happened to Godfrey)
acd miss miss acd astudyincanon there's class and then there's real class holmes & watson
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This is one of those cases where nothing actually criminal has happened, but the rugby coach is worried that his star player has gone missing, so he goes to scotland yard first, and they send him to Holmes. By contrast, the rich lord that the missing fellow is heir to, can’t be bothered to look for him, and won’t be out of pocket for anyone else to do so. Well, since SCAN, Holmes knows what to make of these types. I enjoyed watching Holmes stick it in and turn it with that one.
This doesn’t seem to be a super shippy story, except for the fact that once they go to Cambridge to follow up on the one lead they have, Holmes wants Watson to be there even though he’s excluded from two whole days of actual investigation. It’s like, Holmes just wants to be able to come home to him at the inn where they are staying, which is pretty sweet. At the beginning of the story, Watson talks a bit about how his companion needs mental stimulation, though he has been weaning him off the drugs (yay) so maybe this is Watson as “sober companion” as well.
ACD completes his critique of the class system with the description of Godfrey’s now late wife. She was beautiful, smart, and good, and they were devoted to one another, but because she was from a “lower class”, the rich uncle would never have accepted her as his heir’s wife. He may have been a “lord”, but he was neither smart nor good, and his description when he enters leaves much to be desired. (again, contrasted with the description of Cyril Overton, the coach, who actually cares what happened to Godfrey)
acd miss miss acd astudyincanon there's class and then there's real class holmes & watson
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May 7th, 2018
