1911, Paris. The city languishes under an oppressive August heat, and somewhere in the haze, the Mona Lisa disappears from the wall of the Louvre. It’s nearly two full days before anyone even realises the painting is missing, but then the city erupts: road blocks, port closures, swarms of police, all for naught.
In Montmartre, there’s a flurry of suspicion. The painter Picasso is accused, as well as the poet Apollinaire; the futurist declarations against the old museum–including threats to burn the Louvre down–coming back to haunt them and their social circles. Desperate, they take their worries to the rue de Boulanger and find Sherlock Holmes blowing cigarette smoke out the window and over the Parisian rooftops, awaiting their arrival.
Joined by Doctor John Watson, a British army doctor hiding from his disillusionments with the empire after the Second Boer War by attempting his memoirs in Paris, Holmes takes the case and delves into the ever-growing pile of accusations–the artists on the hill, European royalty, American financiers–following the leads through opium dens and cabarets, down into the basements of the Palais Garnier and up into the glass reaches of the Grand Palais’ aerial locomotion exhibits.
As Watson begins to recount Holmes’ adventures in disproving the accusations for the Parisian newspapers, the city waits, enthralled for the case’s conclusion–but as the leads dry up, the whispers in Paris begin to wonder: what are the blank spaces in Watson’s stories hiding? If Holmes’ investigations don’t turn up the thief, could it be because the thief was Holmes himself?
Although not a current WIP, I wanted to put this out into the universe to gauge the level of interest. I do intend to write it as a johnlock romance-adventure story someday, but right now it’s something I’m just dabbling in. Thanks!
My advice is to write it, put it up as a self-published book on Amazon, give me the link and make me pay actual cash monies for that, because that is one of the hottest Sherlock Holmes synopses I have ever read. I am already sold.
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