Prime Suspect

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Title: Prime Suspect
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Once more to the dénouement parlour!
Warning: (meta, meta, meta)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 3rd 2020 prompt: Green

.oOOo.

Since you ask me for a murder mystery, I will recount one of Holmes’ recent cases. Names will be obscured to protect the guilty and the innocent.

Gathered in the parlour, Holmes dismissed each suspect, for at the time of the murder:

The seductress had snuck out for a secret rendezvous (with the housekeeper).
The housekeeper (ibid).
The professor was deep in his opium.
The wealthy widow, a former librarian, would have chosen a quieter weapon to use in a library.
And, the Crimean veteran suffered from palsy and could not use a revolver.

That only left…

Whodunnit? (Three words)

.oOOo.

Please sign the guestbook

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Supplementary Notes: Apologies to John Finnemore. 

Comments

[methylviolet10b]

LOLOLOL!!!!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I have no idea but I do like the term 'denouement parlour' and will add it to my vocabulary.

[mafief]

Hmm... my answer only has two words.

[debriswoman]

Amused at a former librarian’s inability to shatter the peace being a rock solid alibi...

[smallhobbit]

TRG

[capt_facepalm]

A British answer has three...

[capt_facepalm]

Well done, sleuth-hound!

[capt_facepalm]

"Since you ask me" and "dénouement parlour" are courtesy of very clever John Finnemore's very clever Souvenir Programme.

[capt_facepalm]

Stereotypical librarian has stereotypical foibles?

[capt_facepalm]

Haha! I went on a tangent that I suspected no one else would!

[gardnerhill]

Hee hee. But of course. Masterful use of the prompt!

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I did not think other writers would take the prompt to this place.

[pompey_01]

I'm ashamed to say I didn't get what you were doing at first (the answer is only 2 words in the American version) but then everything clicked. Well done! This was a clever take on the prompt.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I'm fond of this one too. It's probably the best of this year's batch.