This story is a sequel to Sherclop Pones and the Adventure of Pinkie's Cupcakes
THE EQUESTRIAN DAILY PAPER
The Pegasi of Cloudsdale have been rudely aroused from their slumbers to the news of the discovery of two crimes taking place last night at the Cloudsdale Weather Factory. A murder and a robbery both taking place simultaneously.
Fred Porlock, a secretary working for the head chemist behind the production operation, upon taking his post to start his shift earlier around 6, he found that the door, which led to a confidential office that housed the Factory’s vital documents, stood ajar. Fearing that something might have occurred, he entered the office to assure himself. To his horror, he found, upon opening the safe which kept the aforementioned documents, empty, robbed from its contents.
He then immediately reported this to his employer, the head chemist Dr. Icarus Hayfield, whom Mr. Porlock thought had already taken post at his study. Upon entering it, however, he found the unfortunate chemist lying upon the floor, dead, his head horribly mutilated by what appears to have been caused by a bullet.
Cloudsdale Yard had been immediately called upon the scene who in turn dispatched their most reputable officer, Detective Inspector G. Lestrot to handle this dastardly crime. He has conducted a most minute study and has come to the conclusion that the chief guardian of the vital documents themselves, Cloud Sweeper, is indeed the culprit.
The suspect has been arrested a few hours after this discovery, in fact; Sweeper had been found at Charlie Cross Hospital, where he tended to his maimed sweetheart, Pearl White whom had been hospitalized last night due to being mugged by villainous blackguards.
Despite such satisfactory discoveries, Mr. Lestrot encounters another dilemma which has very much left the entire Yard at their wit’s end…
The Factory’s documents comprise of 10 pages—only nine have been recovered from Sweeper’s person, and the tenth, it is said, being the most vital amongst the bunch, is missing.
Our readers must be assured that Cloudsdale Yard’s most ardent and tenacious of officers are hard at work to resolve this conundrum.
This is an awesome start to your story/sequel, cannot wait for more. I like your writing style, it is also very creative and interesting. I realized that it’s written in first person, I couldn’t tell at first whose point of view it was. Which character was it?
Anyways, you earned a fav from me.
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I've written this, and my other story, as a sort of pastiche, which has the same style in which the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used...which is narrating the story through the perspective of Dr. Watson (Holmes' close friend and roommate), whose ponified name here is Watcolt.
Hey, thanks, glad you like it!
Again, thanks for the fav! Still thinking of ways on how to bring the ideas in my head to paper while not making it feel contrived or shoe-horned...
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When you update it, I will come back to read it when I have the time. I'm busy with a lot of things lately, writing, reading, studying, and work.
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Thanks, that's alright, no pressure. Besides, lately, I too am busy with a lot things (mostly academics.) So, yeah, cheers to both our success!
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it was a nice touch to see some humor in the first few opening lines of the chapter.
you still have that magic touch here like in your previous work, and i could see how polished and developed it is.
again, you continue to amaze me with your creativity. i wonder how you do it,,
can't wait to see more!
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That's the magic of Holmes for ya', Doyle really wrote him in such a way that readers are still charmed and intrigued even after over a hundred years after the character's literary conception.
Aww, thanks, mein Freund, pleased that you enjoy it!