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Book Mycroft and Sherlock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
  • Release : 2018-10-09
  • ISBN : 1785659278
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Mycroft and Sherlock written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however, his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration. When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his beloved Britain's coffers. As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences...

Book Mycroft Holmes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 1785658077
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mycroft Holmes written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel written by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descent, and where his fiancée Georgiana Sutton was raised. Mycroft’s comfortable existence is overturned when Douglas receives troubling reports from home. There are rumors of mysterious disappearances, strange footprints in the sand, and spirits enticing children to their deaths, their bodies found drained of blood. Upon hearing the news, Georgiana abruptly departs for Trinidad. Near panic, Mycroft convinces Douglas that they should follow her, drawing the two men into a web of dark secrets that grows more treacherous with each step they take... Written by NBA superstar Kareem Abdul- Jabbar and screenwriter Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes reveals the untold story of Sherlock’s older brother. This harrowing adventure changed his life, and set the stage for the man Mycroft would become: founder of the famous Diogenes Club and the hidden power behind the British government.

Book Mycroft and Sherlock  The Empty Birdcage

Download or read book Mycroft and Sherlock The Empty Birdcage written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1873, and as the economies of Europe threaten to crumble, Mycroft Holmes finds himself in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims, only a mysterious calling card. Meanwhile, Sherlock has already taken it upon himself to solve the case, as his interest in the criminal mind grows into an obsession. Mycroft begrudgingly allows Sherlock to investigate, as Ai Lin--the woman he is still in love with--needs his aid. Her fiancé has been kidnapped, and the only man who might know his fate is a ruthless arms dealer with a reputation for killing those who cross him. Mycroft persuades his friend Cyrus Douglas to help find the young man, but Douglas himself is put in harm's way. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for the Fire Four Eleven murderer, both he and Mycroft will discover that the greed of others is at the root of the evil they are trying to unearth...

Book Enter the Lion

Download or read book Enter the Lion written by Michael P. Hodel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes

Download or read book The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes written by Marcel Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uncle's fictional legacy leads a young man on a search for the truth about his family and himself. When Uncle Patrick dies, he leaves his ramshackle home to his nephew, Damien. What Damien uncovers in the house leads him to a decades old mystery and some dark, unsettling truths.

Book Mycroft Holmes and The Apocalypse Handbook

Download or read book Mycroft Holmes and The Apocalypse Handbook written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All new adventures starring Mycroft Holmes by author of the best-selling Mycroft series, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Mycroft Holmes and The Apocalypse Handbook sees the diffident, brilliant Mycroft pulled into a globe-spanning adventure at the behest of Queen Victoria and a secret organization at the heart of the British government. A madman is on the loose with civilization-destroying weapons, each two hundred years in advance of the status quo. Can the smartest man in England set aside his idle, womanizing ways for long enough to track down the foe that may be his match? This all-new graphic novel collection presents brand new comic adventures set in the world created by the author of the best-selling Mycroft novel series, and is perfect for fans of Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock Holmes.

Book The Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans

Download or read book The Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fancy a good mystery? Dive into this Sherlock Holmes tale from the pen of the master, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Drawn from Doyle's last collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" centers on a set of secret blueprints for a state-of-the-art underwater vessel -- and the identity of the man who was carrying them when he fell to his death from a moving train. A must-read for fans of classic detective fiction

Book Against the Brotherhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Quinn Fawcett
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1998-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780812545234
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Against the Brotherhood written by Quinn Fawcett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brother of Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, investigates an organization of terrorists trying to sabotage a European peace treaty. The actual legwork is done by Paterson Guthrie, the man serving as Mycroft's Dr. Watson.

Book Enola Holmes

Download or read book Enola Holmes written by Nancy Springer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel adaptation of Nancy Springer's bestselling mystery series about Sherlock Holmes' resourceful younger sister! Raised by her mother on the family's country manor, Enola wakes on her 14th birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that impresses even the elder Holmeses. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead. This delightfully drawn graphic novel adaptation also includes a portfolio of pages from Enola's secret notebook.

Book The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories

Download or read book The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled! Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter); and parodies by Conan Doyle’s contemporaries A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, and O. Henry, not to mention genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. No matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoy The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories. Including - Over a century’s worth of cases, from Conan Doyle’s 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey” (2011) - Appearances by those other great detectives Hercule Poirot and C. Auguste Dupin - 15 Edgar Award–winning authors and 5 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters - Stories by Laurie R. King, Colin Dexter, Anthony Burgess, Anne Perry, Stephen King, P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, and many, many more.

Book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Download or read book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No mystery is too challenging for the infamous detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson. Holmes is at his best when the job seems impossible—or just plain absurd. From cases involving a strange group for red-headed men to a missing thumb, Holmes uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve even the weirdest mysteries. Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first twelve original Sherlock Holmes short stories as serials in the UK's Strand Magazine from 1891-1892. This unabridged collection of the stories is taken from the book form, originally published in 1892.

Book Embassy Row

    Book Details:
  • Author : Quinn Fawcett
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780812545227
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Embassy Row written by Quinn Fawcett and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's older brother, finds himself embroiled in a mystery involving secret British negotiations with the Japanese and the murder of a British diplomat. Reprint. PW.

Book The Trials of Sherlock Holmes

Download or read book The Trials of Sherlock Holmes written by James Moffett and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a cold London morning in 1887, and the discovery of a dead man in an abandoned house plunges Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson into a series of eight trying cases that will test the friendship of the two companions and threaten the safety of the country itself. From a staged murder to an impossible suicide, the theft of a national document to the disappearance of an entire family, London's foremost consulting detective and his faithful companion must seek out the clues and venture into the very heart of each mystery. All the while a sinister force, lurking amid the busy streets of London, stalks their every case, testing their own mental and physical prowess; ultimately they require the assistance of their closest allies, including Mycroft Holmes and the unsophisticated Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade. Will Holmes and Watson be able to avert the approaching threat that appears to be vengefully heading straight for them?

Book The Greek Interpreter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2012-10-07
  • ISBN : 9781480067028
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book The Greek Interpreter written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek Interpreter During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence. His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people. I had come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.

Book The Italian Secretary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caleb Carr
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2006-05-02
  • ISBN : 9780312939137
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Italian Secretary written by Caleb Carr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.

Book The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle  Illustrated

Download or read book The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrated written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 8117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Sketches Professor Challenger The Lost World The Poison Belt The Land of Mists When the World Screamed The Disintegration Machine Brigadier Gerard The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard The Adventures of Gerard Novels Micah Clarke The White Company The Great Shadow The Refugees Rodney Stone Uncle Bernac Sir Nigel Mystery of Cloomber The Firm of Girdlestone The Doings of Raffles Haw Beyond The City The Parasite The Stark Munro Letters The Tragedy of the Korosko A Duet The Maracot Deep Short Story Collections Mysteries and Adventures The Captain of the Pole-Star Round the Red Lamp Stories of War and Sport Round the Fire Stories Impressions and Tales Danger and Other Stories Tales of Pirates and Blue Water Other Stories Poetry Songs of Action Songs of the Road The Guards Came Through Plays Sherlock Holmes The Crown Diamond Jane Annie Waterloo A Pot of Caviare The Speckled Band The Journey Spiritualism The New Revelation The Vital Message The Wanderings of a Spiritualist The Coming of the Fairies The History of Spiritualism Pheneas Speaks The Spiritualist's Reader The Edge of the Unknown Stranger Than Fiction Fairies Photographed The Mediumship of Florence Cook The Houdini Enigma The Uncharted Coast Historical Works The Great Boer War The War in South Africa The Crime of the Congo Other Works & Personal Memoirs Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and his historical novels.

Book The Secret Diary of Mycroft Holmes

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. F. Bennett
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-02-25
  • ISBN : 9781544140087
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Secret Diary of Mycroft Holmes written by S. F. Bennett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Samuel Pepys could fill nine years' worth of journals with tales of arguments with his wife, visits to the theatres, fire and plague, then I am fairly confident I should be able to achieve a similar feat - with the exception of the plague, that is." Thus begins Mycroft Holmes's valiant, if irregular, attempt to chronicle his doings. Rediscovered in 1976 and now fully translated from an obscure code, Mycroft's diaries reveal that a brother's lot is not always a happy one, especially when that brother happens to be London's only consulting detective. In this humorous look at the world of Sherlock Holmes through Mycroft's eyes, between avoiding amorous cleaning ladies and eccentric family members, appeasing hopeless artists and budding novelists, keeping the peace at the Diogenes and minding doting dogs, one question always remains: will Sherlock ever get a proper job? Devon-based journalist and lecturer, S.F. Bennett has written for the Baker Street Journal and the Journal of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, amongst others. This is the author's first novel.