Just for you, because you put Derren and Sherlock Holmes in one post, a snippet from my nearly-finished WIP.
He greeted me affably enough, with a ready smile and professing an admiration for medical men which, had I not known his tricks, I would have wholly believed. Mr Brown was not tall, though he gave the impression of greater height – I realised with a start that he was no taller than myself. He had receding hair of a chestnuttish ginger and keen brown eyes that dared across my face as I spoke. Neatly dressed, staying just the right side of flamboyance, his hands were pale and slender and somehow put me in mind of Holmes.
After a sip of coffee – he was, I judged, no small addict, as he shut his eyes briefly with pleasure – he turned to Holmes. ‘I do hope, Sherlock, that you didn’t ask me for a social call. It’s too early by far.’ He smiled at me with a conspiratorial look, ‘I’m afraid I’m inclined to keep rather nocturnal hours.’
I murmured that he must be obliged to stay late at the theatre and he concurred. ‘Of course people always want a word afterwards, which is absolutely lovely of them, but…’ he cut himself off with another sip of coffee.
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He greeted me affably enough, with a ready smile and professing an admiration for medical men which, had I not known his tricks, I would have wholly believed. Mr Brown was not tall, though he gave the impression of greater height – I realised with a start that he was no taller than myself. He had receding hair of a chestnuttish ginger and keen brown eyes that dared across my face as I spoke. Neatly dressed, staying just the right side of flamboyance, his hands were pale and slender and somehow put me in mind of Holmes.
After a sip of coffee – he was, I judged, no small addict, as he shut his eyes briefly with pleasure – he turned to Holmes. ‘I do hope, Sherlock, that you didn’t ask me for a social call. It’s too early by far.’ He smiled at me with a conspiratorial look, ‘I’m afraid I’m inclined to keep rather nocturnal hours.’
I murmured that he must be obliged to stay late at the theatre and he concurred. ‘Of course people always want a word afterwards, which is absolutely lovely of them, but…’ he cut himself off with another sip of coffee.