It hinges, Lestrade, on a curious incident.[SH]
Please, Holmes. Not that dog in the night-time again.[IL]
No, this time it is the cat.[SH]
Cat burglar?[DW]
No, Watson. Merely a cat.[SH]
Good God, Holmes. A murdering meerkat?[DW]
[Sigh]None but a simple feline.[SH]
Kat is a felon?[IL] {279 characters. Phew.}
Speakers:
SH = Sherlock Holmes
IL= Inspector Lestrade
DW = Doctor Watson
For Kat’s twittering tale 137 (apologies to ACD) And, Kat, I didn’t realize you were felonious! wink, wink, nod, nod.
pastiche: A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates.
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Lorraine's frilly freudian slip 
May 29, 2019 at 1:50 am
Very Holmesish!!
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June 1, 2019 at 9:45 pm
Thanks. Been reading mysteries where the detective is Oscar Wilde. And in the books, as in real life, Arthur Conan Doyle was a good friend.
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May 28, 2019 at 7:31 am
This form and story, my dear Watson, is decidedly not elementary.
Great job.
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June 1, 2019 at 9:44 pm
Thanks. I love the word pastiche and things Sherlockian.
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May 22, 2019 at 7:21 am
bravo and well done ~ the tone is spot on! LOL
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May 23, 2019 at 2:17 am
I’ve been reading murder mysteries with Oscar Wilde as a Sherlockian-type “detective.” And, one of Oscar’s close friends is Arthur Conan Doyle (who in the last book was considering murdering poor Sherlock).
And, I’ve never called a piece a pastiche before. Now that was fun. smiling upside down
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May 23, 2019 at 8:36 am
pastiche is a totally cool word …. :D
well, that certainly sounds like a funky series — Mr. Wilde as “detective” … sounds fascinating… something’s afoot! LOL
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May 24, 2019 at 6:55 am
In fact, Oscar does quip, “The game’s afoot!” Wilde and Conan Doyle were good friends, as strange as it may seem.
Oscar is written in these books as a kind of Sherlock Holmes. And the narrator, Richard Sherard, as a sort of Watson.
Sherard, as it turns out, in real life, was a white supremist, writing articles against various groups and immigration. The author of the books is an authority on Wilde, and usurped the character of Sherard for narrator.
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May 24, 2019 at 9:00 am
how fascinating! wow! what a fascinating “backstory” – outline … and rather a bold and quirky combo/idea on the author’s part … sounds pretty ……. Neat. ;)
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June 1, 2019 at 9:22 pm
The author is Gyles Brandreth. He wrote a series of mysteries with Wilde and Sherard. I have two paperbacks that the library was giving away: Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile (a very strange, but interesting tale), and Oscar Wild and a Game Called Murder (very complex, a bit draggy by times, and a bit too easily tied up with a canary yellow ribbon at the end). There are more; I may have once tried to read another and found it too “off-putting,” but it could have been by another author.
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June 2, 2019 at 8:21 am
hmm, just realized, I was tripping on the word “fascinating” … LOL …
well, I guess that’s just it, sometimes, somethings work, others, not so much – and I think when an author decides to tackle a well loved and written character, like Holmes, and then takes a real person, and marries the two, into some “new” creation, it can be exceptionally hard/difficult to do well – and without “hitches” and “glitches” …. it takes great skill and I’d think, right off, one would be treading a capricious line — but it is an intriguing concept :)
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June 4, 2019 at 3:46 am
Nicolas Cage did some interesting re-writing of Holmes (not the first, and especially since the success of the new Sherlock, certainly not the last). The Seven Per Cent Solution (book and movie) are so good . . .
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June 4, 2019 at 8:59 am
you’ve mentioned this one in particular – it’s on my long reading list 😓
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May 22, 2019 at 2:28 am
Absolutely brilliant 💜
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May 23, 2019 at 2:07 am
Thank you! I like Sherlock Holmes stories.
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May 23, 2019 at 3:35 am
I see 😁
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May 21, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Clever Lorraine. And I learned about a new form too! Brilliant! The reference to Kat? Hmmmm. Shhhh. It’s our secret! Haha!
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May 23, 2019 at 2:06 am
Of course. I would never reveal such a heinous fact in a public forum such as a blog or response to a writing prompt!
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May 23, 2019 at 9:04 am
Haha! 😉
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