The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard is FREE on
the Subterranean Press website (US Only)
This is "a gender-swapped retelling of Sherlock Holmes with Watson as a sentient spaceship" set in de Bodard's
Xuya Universe - "a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration: scholars administrate planets, and sentient spaceships are part of familial lineages."
I've read the story and can recommend it. Another upcoming Xuya story with a similar pairing of characters has been announced this week.