Endgame
A.J. Hall
Endgame is Fanfiction short story set in the BBC’s Sherlock universe.
A child psychologist is asked to sit in on the questioning of her client, a nine-year old boy, traumatised by finding his father stabbed to death. The child’s mother is being held for the murder and the case against her looks water-tight, unless her son can be persuaded to tell what he knows. But the only way to communicate with the traumatised child is through his great obsession, chess, and only one detective speaks chess fluently enough to understand what he has to say.
Warnings: The author chooses not to warn.
Acknowledgements:
BBC’s Sherlock is, of course, AU: the characters exist, in 2010, in a world which never read about Sherlock Holmes, Dr John Watson, Professor Moriarty and Mrs Hudson in the Strand magazine from 1887 onwards. As a result, the detective story developed rather differently; Agatha Christie never wrote “Death in the Clouds” and Doctor Who never riffed off its classic Fontana cover in “The Unicorn and the Wasp”.
The characters and conventions mentioned in this work are purely fictitious and any resemblance to any living person or real-life incident is purely coincidental except as specifically mentioned.
The fonts used in this book are from the Source Serif Pro font family by Frank Grießhammer.
The images and fonts were used under license detailed on their respective website pages at the date of this book publication.
As usual, Russ from shoes for industry designed the book cover, produced the books and compiled the on-line work.
The opinions, prejudices, faults and spelling herein are all my own work, and I apologise in advance for them.
This novel is rated
Teen (15).
You might also like to consider other books set in the Sherlock fandom.
- First Edition: 14th Oct 2010
- 2nd Edition: 16th Apr 2012
- 3rd Edition: 4th May 2021
This work is created as a transformative work on a not-for-profit basis. All rights in the underlying properties are those of their respective holders.