{"id":3805,"date":"2012-07-07T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=3805"},"modified":"2012-07-07T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:05:24","slug":"golden-blaze","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=3805","title":{"rendered":"Golden Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Rhys Barter<\/span><\/h3>\n

As the sun rose over the New Mexico desert, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful\u00a0steed Watson finally came upon Hugh Boone\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

For days Sherlock had ceaselessly ridden north, passing through the townships\u00a0of Shoscombe, Milverton, and Breckinridge, reliably informed by each sheriff in turn\u00a0that he was only hours behind the notorious bank robber. Boone was on the run for\u00a0stealing the Blue Diamond, the most famous jewel in the US.<\/p>\n

In every town Sherlock stopped to check the \u201cwanted\u201d posters. The reward for\u00a0Boone had gone up from $1000 to $5000.<\/p>\n

Dead or alive.<\/p>\n

As the Wild West\u2019s most feared bounty hunter, Holmes did not doubt that he\u00a0would take home the prize.<\/p>\n

Boone had set up camp in Fear Valley, a barren landscape with little\u00a0opportunity for ambush. Luckily Holmes possessed a skill that his fellow cowboys did\u00a0not. He was a master of disguise.<\/p>\n

And so it happened that at 8:15am an elderly priest rode right up to Boone,\u00a0and asked the villain if he could spare any water.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure father,\u201d Boone said, \u201cJust let me give Golden Blaze his breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boone fed his horse, and then suddenly span around, a gun in his hand.<\/p>\n

Holmes reacted quickly, pulling his gun from Watson\u2019s mane and shooting\u00a0Boone in the shoulder. He then tied the injured Boone to the back of Golden Blaze\u00a0and marched him all the way to Albuquerque to claim the reward.<\/p>\n

Then the police realised that the diamond was nowhere to be found. Boone\u00a0claimed never to have heard of the jewel, let alone stolen it.<\/p>\n

Sherlock didn\u2019t care; he was already drinking away his reward in a local\u00a0tavern. Then suddenly, sometime during his sixth whiskey, he remembered something.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could I be so stupid?\u201d he said. Then, taking up his knife, he bounded\u00a0over to the police stables.<\/p>\n

Holmes demanded to see Golden Blaze and his request was immediately\u00a0honoured. However, when he plunged his knife into the beast, slicing its belly open,\u00a0the stable manager feared he\u2019d made a mistake.<\/p>\n

Holmes knelt down, and shifted through the fetid chyme until he found what\u00a0he was looking for.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations Holmes,\u201d the stable manager said, \u201cShall I fetch the sheriff?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he replied, \u201cI\u2019m not retained by the sheriff to remedy his deficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he pocketed the diamond and rode Watson out of town, never to be seen\u00a0again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Rhys Barter As the sun rose over the New Mexico desert, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful\u00a0steed Watson finally came upon<\/p>\n

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