Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of The Cold-Served Revenge by Petr Macek

Author:Petr Macek
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sherlock Holmes, mystery, crime, british crime, sherlock holmes novels, sherlock holmes fiction
ISBN: 9781780926605
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2014-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

20 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was one of the founders of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Her name is connected with the fight for women’s rights in the period leading up to the First World War.

X: Cosi fan tutte

Holmes sent me upstairs to get dressed and put myself in order. I felt as though I were preparing myself for the grave. Meanwhile he waited for me in the drawing room, dressed and ready to depart. I could only guess where he wanted to go so early in the morning. Perhaps to a pistol duel somewhere in the plains outside the city?

When I returned to the drawing room I noticed that the detective was clearing away the remains of my drunken night. He had taken away the bottle of wine and my glass, folded the blanket, picked up the scattered sheets of his dossier and cleaned the fireplace.

“That took you a while,” he complained, grasping me around the shoulder. “It is high time we get going. Soon it will be nine o’clock and ideally everything should be cleared up before noon. Let’s go, they are waiting for us.”

He led me out of the house to a carriage that was standing at the curb. To my surprise it contained Mycroft. Was he Holmes’s second? He greeted me sullenly and motioned me to sit next to him. The detective took the seat across from us and we set off.

Curiosity got the better of me.

“Where are we going?” I asked.

My friend turned from the window and sighed.

“As I already said: It is time to end this story.”

“What in God’s name are you talking about?” I cried, imagining the ridiculous spectacle of a duel to the death. “Do you really want to bury our friendship this way?”

He looked at me as though it was I who had lost my mind. Then the light of understanding appeared in his eyes and the pupils sparkled.

“My dear Watson, I really do owe you an explanation; in all this haste I did not realise it,” he said laughing. “I have succeeded in solving our case and now we are on our way to confront the criminal.”

“Really?” I cried with surprise. “You are no longer angry at me because of Lady Alice?”

“Nor can I be,” he said, shrugging his shoulders. “I have a confession, my friend. That scene the day before yesterday when I berated you, it was all a ruse.”

I could not believe my ears!

“It all served only one purpose: My enemies had to be certain that the seeds of discord had been planted between us. Your weakness for women certainly came in handy. But the rest was pure fiction.”

“And what role did poor Lady Alice play in all of this?” I asked.

“The central one, my dear friend, indeed the title role.”

He did not elaborate further, assuring me that by and by I would learn the true purpose of this drama.

Mycroft, who had been listening to us, smacked his lips and shook his head warily. We all plunged into silent expectation.

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