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Giddy!
So, I'm reading Dr. Sherlock Holmes v Čechách (Dr Sherlock Holmes in Bohemia) by Rudolf Čechura and I'm delighted! It's wonderful! It's hilarious and tongue-in-the-cheeky - just the names: a beekeeper called Beefeater, a mycologist by the name Mushroom! - and Holmes and Watson have such a fantastic relationship in it!
They are both very, very old here - it takes place in the 1950s so they are around 100! - and yes, they are frail and they don't run after the bad guys anymore - usually, Holmes just points at the fleeing suspect and yells "Fetch!" at the constables - but they are still them! Hilarious and snarky and still so... tender with each other. They both live in Sussex, each in his own house, but they visit each other regularly, they take long walks in the country where there are no cars or pollution and when they feel like it, they prance and giggle like little kids much to the confusion of people who see them and who think that they can't be Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, Holmes and Watson are gentlemen! And they have dinners together and Holmes plays the violin for Watson, a lullaby... And Watson is really smart, keeping up with Holmes in almost everything.
It's so, so wonderful! It's exactly the Sherlock Holmes book I always wanted. His Last Bow was rather sad, suggesting that Holmes and Watson never saw each other again, but this! It shows that they spent another 40 years together and they had so much fun! I want to smooch Čechura, the author, silly, seriously!
They are both very, very old here - it takes place in the 1950s so they are around 100! - and yes, they are frail and they don't run after the bad guys anymore - usually, Holmes just points at the fleeing suspect and yells "Fetch!" at the constables - but they are still them! Hilarious and snarky and still so... tender with each other. They both live in Sussex, each in his own house, but they visit each other regularly, they take long walks in the country where there are no cars or pollution and when they feel like it, they prance and giggle like little kids much to the confusion of people who see them and who think that they can't be Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, Holmes and Watson are gentlemen! And they have dinners together and Holmes plays the violin for Watson, a lullaby... And Watson is really smart, keeping up with Holmes in almost everything.
It's so, so wonderful! It's exactly the Sherlock Holmes book I always wanted. His Last Bow was rather sad, suggesting that Holmes and Watson never saw each other again, but this! It shows that they spent another 40 years together and they had so much fun! I want to smooch Čechura, the author, silly, seriously!