[Nineteenth Century] An Atypical Novelist

Nabla Lance, an astrophysicist.

After transmigrating to London in 1880, she challenges herself to try her hand at novel writing.

Her first book is titled "48 Hours Until Pompeii's Final Days: I Made Ten Thousand Pounds in a Fury."

When the novel becomes a bestseller, the detective Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street comes calling.

Sherlock: Your apocalyptic novel seems to have foreshadowed the sudden death of an archaeologist working in Pompeii.

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Her second book is titled "After Winning the Lottery, I Became a Top Food Critic."

The detective is back again.

Sherlock: Your food novel seems to have predicted the death of the US president.

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Her third book is titled "Her Body Temperature Is 34.9°C."

The detective is back yet again.

Sherlock: Since your new book went on sale, several murder scenes have featured bloody messages signed with your pen name.

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She seems to have acquired a strange writing aura.

Much, much later.

Nabla is eager to try writing a book called "The Great Detective's Unspoken Secret," just to see what Sherlock will bring her this time.

Sherlock: Are you sure? All my secrets have something to do with you.

On the last day of the nineteenth century, Watson quietly wrote in his diary:

My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is the greatest detective of this century, bar none.

His beloved, Nabla Lance, is the most legendary novelist of this century, also bar none.

In a way, compared to Moriarty, the "Napoleon of Crime," Lance is the more dangerous one.

A cryptographer transmigrates to New York in 1979.

She becomes Sylvan Woods, a young woman chasing her Hollywood dream.

America's "Greed Is Good" era is about to begin.

But from the start, she's saddled with a five-thousand-dollar medical bill.

Act to pay it off?

No.

Her first fortune comes from taking advantage of a famous director.

She hand-builds a mechanical device at zero cost, solving the major problem of creating split-screen effects during film shooting.

One day, while assembling equipment, Sylvan listens to a radio adaptation of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."

A newcomer to the apartment knocks on her door.

His name is Sherlock Holmes too, a university student who has just taken a leave of absence.

~~

Sherlock is about to begin a quiet retirement raising bees.

Then he wakes up as a nineteen-year-old university student with the same name.

He finds himself in a world unlike the one he knew.

The familiar Victorian era of the nineteenth century is long gone.

The strange age of microcomputers in the twentieth century is just around the corner.

And Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" makes him wonder whether he is a fictional character or a real person.

Sherlock: First, let's solve a small problem. Where can I buy some good honey?

In a sentence:

A transmigrated big shot and a detective from another time meet in 1980s America, where "greed is good."

Theme: Live boldly, always moving forward.