The Case of Black and Grey: A Story of Friends in the Rain in a Strange Little Town

By J. Deytiquez

A short story about how two of the most popular fictional detectives, Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, met in a train ride to a strange little town on a rainy day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Deytiquez
• Release date: May 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005010096

J. Deytiquez

I grew up in a sleepy town in the midst of the vast expanse of rice fields in Luzon, Philippines. Though inspired mainly by the simplicity of nature of my hometown, to read and to write, I am also inspired by my experiences in the cold and rainy mountain city of Baguio.

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The Case of Black and Grey: A Story of Friends in the Rain in a Strange Little Town

Copyright 2022 J. Deytiquez

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A journalist from days gone by named G.K. Chesterton once said:

"You will find, I mean, that rich colours actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a sombre background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch… on a grey day the larkspur looks like fallen heaven; the red daisies are really the red lost eyes of day; and the sunflower is the vice-regent of the sun…. Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour; of brightening into blue or blanching into white or bursting into green and gold. So we may be perpetually reminded of the indefinite hope that is in