Very apt ending to a great series, belatedly read, but none the less enjoyed.
And a Happy New Year to you, dear EE, and all your inspirational Irregulars.

Oh lovely. So good to get some background on a case, one that Holmes was not the hero of - that honour going to the second husband.
Apt and touching quote from Jarod Kintz.

Aw, that's a delightful dark secret. What a truly lovely story, working up the ominous secret, darkly... and then...

Another one I don't know, but adapted well for the Sherlockian world.

Oh that quote at the end made me laugh! What a breakfast that would be.
I'll stick with the French pastries, my friend! ;-D

LOL Poor Lestrade - and so many Boxers in one song. ;-D

I love it when you talk frivolous - that was fun and rather sweet and lead to some more Holmes quotes.

That is such fun and so believable. I do hope that Mrs Hudson didn't have fancy wallpaper up!

'unaware of the silent detonation that had melted his flatmate's brain into putty' - glorious!

Oh yes, there are more senses than sight to catch the criminal. And another of your ACD quotes to cheer the day. That one is priceless.

7 options... no idea where Lestrade lives... diverting non-the-less as this is, I have to move on... ;-0

And again with the clever and apt quotes, that enhance and add. And, yes, that would a great rug and a great case.

And again you manage to write something touching and amusing simultaneously. A smile will come unbidden when recognising all the little touches that remind us of ACD's stories and, even, BBC's Sherlock. And another apt quote - you are the master of those.

Triple the pleasure - a little 'at home at 221B'; alternative lyrics and an apt quote. What better...

Oh LOL, of course, the perfect present.

What a perfectly crafted tale interwoven with original ACD prose. Works so well together and very clever of you - and Mycroft - to arrange it so.

Oh yeah! And now I really want a box of truffles!
I was quite concerned at paragraph one, but paragraph two had me smiling. Lovely.