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About the Author: Michael Mallory is the author of the "Amelia Watson" and "Dave Beauchamp" mystery series, as well as some 130 short stories, mostly mystery. He lives in Greater Los Angeles and works as an entertainment journalist and occasional actor on television.
“Do not for a moment presume that I cannot tell to what you are turning your literary skills,” Sherlock Holmes said to me during an otherwise unremarkable evening in our Baker Street flat. Indeed, I had taken up my pen and was beginning to compose, though I had not uttered a sound as to the matter upon which I was writing.
“Even you cannot know what is in my mind, Holmes,” I replied.
“On the contrary, Watson, you are as easily read as the headline of the Police Gazette. The fact that you are pursing your lips like the first-chair cornetist at St. James Hall tells me that you are deliberating whether or not you should commit your thoughts to paper at all, which in turn implies that doing so carries some potential consequence. The obvious conclusion is that you are, against all advice to the contrary, about to record for posterity the details of the recently-concluded Inimitable affair.”
I threw the pen down, creating an ugly blotch on the paper, and turned in my chair to face him. “Really, Holmes, you make it sound as though someone from the Yard will burst in and take me away in manacles for the act of writing. It is not setting down the account against which I have been cautioned, but rather publishing it.”
“You must admit that one does lead to the other.”
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