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...Could Fill A Book index

[PG] No explicit sex.

Introduction

Irene Adler aka the Plaid Adder fittingly pens a story involving snakes, in fact the snake of the canon, the swamp adder of the Speckled Band. This snake, as Sherlockians have long known, is entirely unknown to medical science and exhibits traits so unlike any real snake, that it casts doubts on whether Holmes correctly solved the case. So when a certain someone points out Holmes's error to him, Holmes determinedly reopens the case and discovers disturbing truths about the Stoner twins and Watson's marriage to Mary Morstan.

...Could Fill A Book

by Irene Adler

Normally the story text would go here. However, since this story is so long, I've broken it up into parts that are linked to this index, and to each other:

...Could Fill A Book, part 1
...Could Fill A Book, part 2
...Could Fill A Book, part 3
...Could Fill A Book, part 4
...Could Fill A Book, part 5
...Could Fill A Book, part 6

Comments

Now there's a guestbook from which I will copy the comments on the slash fiction. Sample comments would look like this:

  1. Subaru; ...Could Fill A Book by Irene Adler; 16 August 2001
    Comments: WOW! A mystery within a mystery. Personally one of my favorite stories, I loved this take on it!
  2. Blurgle; About... Could Fill A Book; 7 September 2007
    I don't know if Irene Adler is still posting H/W stories or following her feedback, but I'd like to pass on how much I enjoyed this story. The characterizations are spot on, the mystery is well-planned and well-executed, and the love between the two characters is realistic and charming. I especially enjoyed the fact that Watson was the one in the know and in many events was ahead of Holmes.
          The only quibble, and it's large enough to take me completely out of the story in part 6, is that Ms. Adler got one thing so ridiculously wrong that it made me snort tea. Lord Ethelred St. John Smythe-Moran (what a great name!) would not be correctly called "Lord Smythe-Moran", but far more importantly he would never, ever, EVER be addressed as "Your Grace". That last one took me out of the story because it's *so* incredibly, ludicrously wrong. Addressing a member of Parliament as "Your Grace" is weirder than addressing an American congressman as "Your Majesty" - it's that ridiculously, bizarrely, laughably wrong. At the most formal he'd be addressed as "Your Lordship", but a man of Holmes's Bohemian beliefs would likely simply address him as "Lord Ethelred".
  3. Katie; "Could Fill A Book"; 24 July 2008
    I loved the mystery and the relationship between Holmes and Watson. Both elements were woven together in a way that made for a fascinating story.
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