First penned by Fran in 1991:
1. Male or female, rich or poor, The perplexed client finds the door.
2. Deductions are made of those who seek The help of Holmes from week to week.
3. The tale is told, the client is gone. He takes his pipe to smoke alone.
4. He sits beside the crackling fire, Detatched from his world, thoughts inspire.
5. Watson, biographer, walks in the park, For he, like us, is in the dark.
6. Back to the rooms, he returns in time To hie with Holmes to the scene of the crime.
7. On his knees with lens to eye, The smallest of clues don’t pass him by.
8. He makes good use of a foreign phrase. French or German or Latin some days.
9. He mentions a monograph – he’s written a few. Ashes and footprints to name but two.
10. The police, he finds are often fools, For they know not how to use thier ‘tools’.
11. As for music, he says that German is best. He finds it more soothing than the rest.
12. A quote he has for every occasion. A witty remark, a clever quotiation.
13. To trick those villains, dark and sinister, He’ll don a disguise, perhaps a minister.
14. A telegram will be dispatched. The stage is set, the plot is hatched.
15. Through long, cold nights, through any weather, A vigil in the dark together.
16. The criminals are captured then And Sherlock Holmes has his men.
17. To Baker Street, the crime to explain, Only to begin again!
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Fran Martin became a member of The Bootmakers of Toronto in 1987 and The Stormy Petrels of B.C. in 1988.
She has attended several Sherlockian conferences including: In 1992 "Aspects of Holmes" in Bradford, England (hosted by The Northern Musgraves); In 2006 "ACD at 35" in Toronto (hosted by The Bootmakers of Toronto); 2013 "Sherlock Holmes Through Time & and Place" in Minneapolis (hosted by The Norwegian Explorers); 2014 "Gillette to Brett IV" in Bloomington (hosted by Wessex Press); 2015 SherlockCon in Seattle; 2015 "A Scintillation of Scions VIII" in Baltimore (hosted by Watson's Tin Box); 2016 "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes" (hosted by The Norwegian Explorers); in 2018 in Dayton, Ohio for the "Holmes, Doyle & Friends" conference (hosted by the Agra Treasurers).
Fran has held several positions with The Stormy Petrels of B.C. including secretary, vice-president, special events coordinator and is currently president and editor of the "Petrel Flyer".
She was honoured with being awarded the title of "Master Bootmaker" in 2014. She was very pleased to present a paper to a meeting of Sir Hugo's Companions in Chicago in 2017.
Fran has contributed articles to Canadian Holmes magazine, the Watsonian and Chris Redmond's "About Sixty" and "Sherlock Holmes is Like...". In May, 2018 she attended the 78th annual Speckled Band of Boston dinner. She was very honoured to have been one of the first women invited.
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