Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #25 by Arthur Conan Doyle

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sherlock Holmes;Mystery;Magazine;detective;crime
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE RED HERRING LEAGUE, by Bradley Harper

25 October, 1991

TO:

Lloyd Baxter, Esq

Baxter and Associates, LLC

495 Pall Mall, London

FROM:

Henrietta Wilson

Associate Bank Manager

Lloyd’s Banking Group

3609 Regents Street, London

Sir,

The following correspondence was discovered when a safe deposit box with a one-hundred-year deposit was opened upon the expiration of said deposit. As your firm originally established the account, I have forwarded it to you in hopes you may find a legal recipient.

If you are unable to find anyone entitled to it, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Victoria and Albert Museum, we would gladly accept this message from Sherlock Holmes’s arch nemesis Professor Moriarty. This recounting of his first encounter with Holmes, composed while en route to his final and fatal rendezvous with him at the Reichenbach Falls, is a priceless piece of British history. Be assured we would proudly display his version of their first meeting with the public, which would grant the Professor’s wish that his voice be heard beyond the grave.

Respectfully,

HW

15 April, 1891

Special train, en route to Lucerne

Jonathon Hopkins, Esq

495 Pall Mall

London

Mister Hopkins,

This will probably be the final letter you receive from me. Whether or no, I suspect your services as my solicitor are at an end. My final instructions regarding the disposition of my earthly effects are already in your custody. I ask you to enclose the attached letter into my safe deposit box, with instructions it not be opened for one hundred years. I should like for it to be posted as a Letter to the Editor of The Times, as my rebuttal to Doctor Watson’s slavish depiction of his companion, Sherlock Holmes.

A century should be long enough that no shame may accrue to my long-deceased relations, but short enough that my name may still be remembered. As I have no doting Watson to tell my side of our encounter and neither publisher nor public to please, it falls to me to tell the true version of events.

I thank you for your loyal service. You will find your final remittance in the safe deposit box in an envelope addressed to you.

If I survive the following week, I shall, however, require the services of a more-than-competent barrister. We shall discuss that requirement when or if I find myself returned to London.

In closing, Sir, I would advise you to choose your friends with care, but your enemies even more so.

Respectfully,

Professor James Moriarty

15 April, 1891

To the Citizens of the Twentieth Century,

As I pursue the man who has destroyed everything I have laboured decades to achieve, I still marvel that my first encounter with Sherlock Holmes was scarcely six months ago. I had heard of the difficulties he was causing various of my competitors and I admit to a flagrant case of Schadenfreude, the unseemly enjoyment of the suffering of others. I bore Mister Holmes no ill will at the time, the enemy of my enemy…you understand. My feelings towards him changed, however, after his intrusion into my own affairs—starting with that deuced case of the Red-Headed League.

It was the

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