lonemagpie

That annoying thing where you think "I might be in the mood for some Conrad Veidt, purely for the research, but the one I want to watch - Above Suspicion, sadly his last movie, but Rathbone is in it, and it's a re-team with Joan Crawford - is one I haven't got, so I'll end up not bothering..."

Why do I bother?

Nicked from Diane Duane (dduane.tumblr.com)

"Each Sunday, post six sentences from a writing project — published, submitted, in progress, for your cat — whatever."

Righty-ho, then...

“It determines whether blood found on clothing or weapons, or even on floors or walls, was shed while the victim was aboard an airborne aerostat. It can also tell whether a body found on the ground fell, or was dropped, from an aerostat. It is as I said, a matter of the haemoglobin. At high altitudes, aboard aerostats, the affinity of the haemoglobin for oxygen is reduced, allowing for oxygen bound with haemoglobin to be more available to the tissues. With this test, we can see whether the haemoglobin and oxygen are so bound in shed blood, or in a corpse, of course.” His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.

- A Study In Steampunk

For those unfamiliar with the guy I picture as Holmes... http://badassdigest.com/2013/07/09/meet-conrad-veidt-badass/

So, I'm writing a scene to this...

Off to the army's medical museum today, which should be hand for Dr Watson stuff..

I've posted before about casting, as it were, Conrad Veidt as Holmes in A Study In Steampunk, but what of Claude Rains as Watson?

Well, he's pretty Watson-ish in Mr Skeffington:

https://www.facebook.com/events/387052631370358/471409369601350/?ref=notif¬if_t=plan_mall_activity

So, the publisher of A Study In Steampunk posted about the casting on facebook… with these pics!