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[andrewducker]

Neil Gaiman just won the Locus Best Novellette award for A Study in Emerald (available here), in which a certain Mr Holmes investigates certain Cthuloid goings on.  It's really rather good, made even better by the adverts which start each chapter:

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Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Heh. Very cool story.

Thanks for the link.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

That's really good. If only all his work was that good. :-(

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly for the link, definitely one of his better stories.