Rigging screws, size 1 3/8 inch, galvanised

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Title:Rigging screws, size 1 3/8 inch, galvanised
Author: AJ Hall
Pairing: Gen
Length: 15,250 words
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings:
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: "How's a woman supposed to prove her husband's a murderer, dammit?"
On the eve of a planned voyage to Brittany, Marjorie Jameson starts her day with no problems more pressing than forcing a boatyard to do an emergency repair to the family yacht. A chance encounter at the Cowes hi-speed ferry terminal begins to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder, with her charming, untrustworthy husband Julian right at the centre and Marjorie as the next intended victim.
But no-one's going to trust the word of an aging housewife whose complaints of abuse the police have previously dismissed as delusions.
Reccer's comments: AJ Hall writes some of the best casefic I've seen in the BBC 'verse, and this story reads like something you'd pay money for. We see the mystery (and Sherlock) mostly from the point of view of Marjorie Jameson, although there is one delicious interchange at Baker Street between John and Sherlock as well. It isn't so much of a "whodunnit?" as it is a "how do you prove it?" but the tension is perfect and even the minor characters are deftly drawn.

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[shezan.livejournal.com]

CANNOT SECOND THIS REC ENOUGH. Plus, Sherlock as toyboy masseur? Vaut le voyage.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh yes. Enormous hands indeed!