History Literature / AStudyInEmerald

* DestroyTheEvidence: The narrator is advised to burn the note sent by the murder, as it's dangerous subversion (he secretly keeps it however). Lestrade even approves this FieryCoverup, despite the note being evidence in a murder case.

* InSpiteOfANail: In the end, despite everything that's changed, [[spoiler: Holmes and Watson are still heroes battling Moriarty and Moran to save the day. The only real difference is that Moriarty and Moran think they're the good guys.]]

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The narrator refers to the detective as "my friend." This sort of thing is common in professionally published pastiches, and the legal status of the Holmes characters is turbulent. [[spoiler: It's actually because the narrator and his friend are NOT Watson and Holmes.]]

* AllohistoricalAllusion: In addition to the references to the Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft mythos, there are a few nods to actual history. [[spoiler: In particular, the ending hints that the Russian Revolution has erupted (though it would be several decades ahead of our schedule).]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Queen Victoria proves to be this; she heals [[spoiler:Moran's arm without expecting anything in return, and thanks the pair for finding the prince's murderer even if said murderer is on the loose. Downplayed in that she is still an Old One who will probably wipe out humanity]].

''A Study in Emerald'' is a UsefulNotes/HugoAward-winning short story by Creator/NeilGaiman, essentially an IntercontinuityCrossover between ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' and the works of Creator/HPLovecraft. Originally it was published in ''Shadows Over Baker Street'' (2003), an entire anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches set in the backdrop of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Later it was republished in Gaiman's anthology, ''Fragile Things'' (2006).

** The narrator refers to the "savages" of Afghanistan (both human and EldritchAbomination) who are unwilling to see the reasonableness of being ruled by their betters in London [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg or even Moscow]].

* AllohistoricalAllusion: In addition to the references to the Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft mythos, there are a few nods to actual history. [[spoiler: In particular, the ending hints that the Russian Revolution has erupted.]]

* GrievousHarmWithABody: "The hero beat the priest to death with his own crucifer".

** Tentacled horrors running the place? The natural order of things. To do it otherwise would just be silly.

--> '''Narrator:''' She was called Victoria, because she had beaten us in battle, seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana, because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen, because the human mouth was not shaped to say her true name.

** "Victor's Vitae", manufactured by [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor von F.]], promises to restore life to the dead... nether regions.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: In addition to the references to the Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft mythos, there are a few nods to actual history. [[spoiler: In particular, the ending hints that at the Russian Revolution has erupted.]]

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Our protagonists go to see a theatre troupe perform three one-act plays: a wacky MistakenIdentity comedy, a tragic melodrama about a [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth sweet starving waif who sells violets]], and a [[CosmicHorrorStory historical epic about the day the Old Ones awoke and conquered humanity]]. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance And the audience is equally charmed by all three.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Tentacled horrors running the place? The natural order of things. To do it otherwise would just be silly.

* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Victoria is not the same same species as Prince Albert in this universe.

* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: The protagonists and Lestrade.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Two men manage to knife to death a Bohemian prince, a sort of Old One half-breed.

Written in the style of a classic Holmes pastiche, this story, (roughly following the plot of the first Holmes novel ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''}, finds [[TheWatson a British soldier invalided home]] after being injured in a war in Afghanistan. Through a mutual acquaintance he becomes flatmates with a [[GreatDetective brilliant if unorthodox consulting detective]]. One day they are called by Inspector Lestrade to assist with the investigate the gruesome murder of a member of the Royal Family. A member who is both far more and far less than human...

Written in the style of a classic Holmes pastiche, this story, roughly following the plot of the first Holmes novel ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'', finds [[TheWatson a British soldier is invalided home]] after being injured in a war in Afghanistan. Through a mutual acquaintance he becomes flatmates with a [[GreatDetective brilliant if unorthodox consulting detective]]. One day they are called by Inspector Lestrade to assist with the investigate the gruesome murder of a member of the Royal Family. A member who is both far more and far less than human...

* RightUnderTheirNoses: The letter at the end declares that the killer and his accomplice are going on the run, causing InspectorLestrade and his men to start stopping all trains and boats leaving the country. The detective, for his part, suspects that the two are ''actually'' going to hide in the notorious crime-ridden slum -- the Rookery of St. Giles merely a few streets away where the police don't dare go except by the dozen. Because, if the roles were reversed, that's what he'd do.

** At the outset of the story, following a bit of [[ContemplateOurNavels navel-gazing]] PurpleProse, the narrator apologizes to the reader and comments that he's not a literary man, a line which makes sense as a "bluff man of action's" HeroicSelfDeprecation, coupled with the fact that the audience understands that this is the first story written by Watson. [[spoiler: However, if one thinks about, Watson is very much a literary man, since he's supposedly the author of all of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, which in retrospect makes the line foreshadowing that the narrator is not Watson, especially in light of the fact that in the story itself, the "real Watson" is the author of the play viewed by the protagonists.]]

Creator/DarkHorseComics will release a graphic novel adaptation of the story on July 10, 2018.

* RightUnderTheirNoses: The letter at the end declares that the killer and his accomplice are going on the run, causing InspectorLestrade and his men to start stopping all trains and boats leaving the country. The detective, for his part, suspects that the two are ''actually'' going to hide in a notorious crime-ridden area merely a few streets away where the police won't bother to look. Because, if the roles were reversed, that's what he'd do.

''A Study in Emerald'' is a UsefulNotes/HugoAward-winning short story by Creator/NeilGaiman, essentially an IntercontinuityCrossover between ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' and the works of Creator/HPLovecraft. Originally it was published in ''Shadows Over Baker Street'' (2003), an entire anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches set in the backdrop of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Later it was republished in Neil Gaiman's anthology, ''Fragile Things'' (2006).

Creator/DarkHorseComics will release a graphic novel adaptation of the story on June 27, 2018.

''A Study in Emerald'' is a UsefulNotes/HugoAward-winning short story by Creator/NeilGaiman, essentially an IntercontinuityCrossover between ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' and the works of Creator/HPLovecraft. Originally it was published in ''Shadows Over Baker Street'' (2003), an entire anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches set in the backdrop of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Three years later in was republished in ''Fragile Things'', an anthology of short stories and poems by Gaiman.

Written in the style of a classic Holmes pastiche, this story, roughly following the plot of the first Holmes novel ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'', finds [[TheWatson a British soldier is invalided home]] after being injured in a war in Afghanistan. Through a mutual acquaintance he becomes flatmates with a [[GreatDetective brilliant if unorthodox consulting detective]]. One day they called by Inspector Lestrade to assist with the investigate the gruesome murder of a member of the Royal Family. A member who is both far more and far less than human...

''A Study in Emerald'' is a UsefulNotes/HugoAward-winning short story by Creator/NeilGaiman, essentially an IntercontinuityCrossover between ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' and the works of Creator/HPLovecraft. Originally published in ''Shadows Over Baker Street'' (2003), an entire anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches set in the backdrop of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Three years later in was republished in ''Fragile Things'', an anthology of short stories by Gaiman.

''A Study in Emerald'' is a UsefulNotes/HugoAward-winning short story by Creator/NeilGaiman, essentially an IntercontinuityCrossover between ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' and the works of Creator/HPLovecraft.

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Written in the style of a classic Holmes pastiche, this story, roughly following the plot of the first Holmes novel ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'', finds [[TheWatson a British soldier invalided home]] after being injured in a war in Afghanistan. Through a mutual acquaintance he becomes flatmates with a [[GreatDetective brilliant if unorthodox consulting detective]]. One day they called by Inspector Lestrade to assist with the investigate the gruesome murder of a member of the Royal Family. A member who is both far more and far less than human...

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