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The Real Captain Hastings

I completely forgot to mention this story. Belive it or not, I'm fairly addicted to prodedurals and mysteries: I just don't tend to be crazy fanish over them as sci-fi or fantasy shows. Mostly, 'cause I can never seem to find good mystery fics - I'm not to hot at writting a good mystery either, because with a truely good mystery you have to give the readers the clues so they could solve the problem as well but you can't give the way the game entirely.

That being said, 'The Real Captain Hastings' is a fairly good mystery. It's an Hercule Poirot mystery, which I'm fairly fond of. Poirot is charecterized well, though I'm not as familar with Captain Hastings or Miss Lemon as for some reason whenever I picked up a copy of a Poirot book it, Hastings was almost never it it. Espescialy since my favorite was Murder on the Orient Express, and the books with Christie's self-insert. (I mean, come one, her insert was good chareter, but when you have an older female writer that has a Norweigian dectevive books though she's neer been to Norway that complains that the Powers that Be keep trying to make the charecter younger, who else could it be besides Christe?)

Okay, so the charecterization is good, there's a mystery attached, and there's Hercule Poirot. Heck, there's even gratious French! there's also a heavily slash element, and I'm a complete sucker for fluffy romance angles. What else could one want?

And I'll promise to stop recing fics in fandom that no one else reads for a bit, but still, how often you even run across Hercule Poirot fic?

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[hideyuki-tah.livejournal.com]

My guess would have to be... never O.o

I'm assuming though... you probably know where to find some Poirot/Holmes slash? (not that I want to... oh jeez not in the least)

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Well... no. I haven't. Though the two charecters do overlap a bit, as "Holmes Last Bow" ends just a bit before World War I, and Hercule Poriot's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" starts sometime during the war.

Actually, that might be quite fun to write, except the fear of the gratiiuitis French. A small meeting, at least.

And you kinda have to go *la la la* over the bits where they say that Holmes is fictional, but whats a fanfic without the tiny breaks in cannon? = )

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

By "starts" I mean acting as a constulting detective. I forgot he was in the police force before that in Belgium, and their existances overlap a bit more than I thought - 20 years more than I orginaly estimated.