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The MacGuffin Affair

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RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED DOCOUMENTS.  
In details never made public until now,  the intrepid detective and his faithful colleague are revealed to have played a critical role in maintaining the Royal Navy's supremacy of the seas in World War I. 
 
It is June 2014.  The winds of war are swirling.  But Sherlock Holmes, retired to Sussex Downs, is more interested in the nature of bees.  His faithful chronicler, Dr. John Watson has sold his practice and passes his days writing medical case journals.   One fine afternoon,  Mycroft Holmes, appears at Watson's door.  Though it has been many years since he has spied his old friend's brother, Watson recognizes him instantly.  The elder Holmes, long retired from government, has been pressed back in service.  Does one ever truly retire from His Majesty's service?   Mycroft has summoned his brother and his brother's colleague to recover missing design plans for a revolutionary propulsion system critical to the Royal Navy.  They were in the possession of mercurial industrialist Sir Henry MacGuffin.  It is a race against time as German spies have learned of the missing plans and are on their way to Scotland to find them for the Kaiser.  
But when Holmes and Watson arrive at the stately MacGuffin manor, all is not as it would appear.  

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Rules on the Fridge [A BBC Sherlock Holmes Fanfiction] (Completed) by SmotheredPsycho

♪ First Names are for Lovers ♪ Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, living in a dated, shared flat with bullet holes in the wall, a skull on the mantle, and an absolutely catastrophic kitchen. It wasn't hard to get along, usually. John could handle Sherlock's bluntness and absolute disregard - or lack of knowledge - for people's feelings or sentiment. And Sherlock could handle John's questions about everything he said. John Watson: An army doctor, stationed in Afghanistan, shot in the leg, put out of commission. Psychosomatic limp; magically gone when he went on a case with Sherlock. Sherlock Holmes: High-functioning sociopath, and the only Consulting Detective in the world. He could read people, he could see crimes in the crime-scene; he could win. ♫ ♫ ♫ Sherlock Holmes went off the rails. He did an experiment that got him hospitalized after John found him on the scene. Lines were crossed. Rules were made. Everything was on the line - concentration on cases slowly dwindled, priorities were mixed, and absolutely everything was spinning. ♫ ♫ ♫ Good habits, bad habits, and everything in between. You have good habits, sure, and they have to be balanced out with bad habits. For most people, that's taking your vitamins every day crossed with cracking your knuckles. For Sherlock Holmes that was catching criminals and putting his life at serious risk every time. ♫ ♫ ♫

$Brilliant {A BBC Sherlock Fanfic} by kasiapeia_$

Amelia Watson is a thunderstorm, and her temper a wildfire. Sherlock Holmes is an enigma wrapped in a riddle, his mind a place very few people can understand. Who'd have thought the two would have anything in common? It isn't easy to capture Sherlock Holmes' attention, so what does Amelia have that caught Sherlock's eye from the start? She always believed herself to be nothing but ordinary, but Sherlock Holmes disagrees. The game is on, and Amelia quickly finds herself swept up in the thrill of the chase--something she'd spent the last few years desperately trying to avoid. When an old enemy returns and threatens the one person she loves the most, Amelia finds her loyalties put to the test. The stakes are high in a game of life and death, and to win, Amelia must accept her fate. But how do you go from ordinary to brilliant? BOOK ONE IN THE INCANDESCENT TRILOGY ~Reviews~ "You have no idea how dedicated I was to reading this, I spent all night reading and I never do that for books, this book is truly my favorite book on Wattpad right now." -desperatelyx "I really love your story!" "...I love your book! I can't wait for more!" -GINALEXY1 "This is brilliant!" "This is good!!!!! MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!" -Renner_Addict135 "This is so good!" -call_me_bea "I love this story so much! It's amazing :D" -katemaya14 "It's amazing! Well thought." -AnikaMyers "This is such an addictive story!" -DevilsWear_Westwood "Love, love, love this story!" -PineHoultBatch "...It's too much on my heart..." -Brightsidelsr

Fleeting Impressions | J.M. by ivyeve111

Beretta Holmes only wanted to live a life far away from the influence of her brothers. Holing herself up in a small town far away from Baker Street, she knows nothing of Sherlock's cases the past year and a half. And she knows nothing of his rival: James Moriarty. Working in an ice cream shop, is when she comes across the Napoleon of crime. No matter how hard she tries, she can not seem to get him out of her head. *takes place after the fall* #1 in jimmoriarty #1 in Sherlock #1 in 221b #1 in Moriarty Pictures used for cover and in the book are just ones I've gotten off google and Pinterest. I do not own Sherlock or the characters besides the ones I've made up.

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𝓜𝓮 & 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓮 ｟ BBC Sherlock ｠ by TheGameIsOn97

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Sentiment? A Weakness by Sp00kySpoons

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