Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 2 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of the Redacted Sherlock Holmes presents more stories manifestly too scandalous to publish in the lifetime of the Great Baker Street detective. Here we meet Sherlock Holmes as he investigates: - why the publication of a British Government report of a recent war is being delayed; - the continued career of James Windibank, villain of A Case of Identity; - the mystery behind the commissioner of a musical masterpiece; - a notorious killing in 1930's Berlin; and - the complex relationship between Queen Victoria, her family and her domestic servants. Finally, The Adventure of the Fourth Messenger elucidates the contribution of Sherlock Holmes to the writing of the Bible. Mr Pearson mixes canonical stories, history and speculation to produce a sensationally entertaining brew which all lovers of serious sleuthing will find themselves unable to put down. In this volume: - The Alcock Report - The Camberwell Tyrant - An Anonymous Commission - The German Interpreter - The Prince and the Munshi - The Adventure of the Fourth messenger

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 4 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five more sizzlingly scandalous Sherlock Holmes stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson - The Baron of Wimbledon: Holmes averts an injustice and makes a dramatic self-discovery - On Consistent Luck: What an enables an industry to enjoy constant good fortune? Sherlock Holmes shows how - Variations on an Enigma: Holmes unravels one Enigma and analyses another - A Study in Red, White and Blue: A diplomatic coup after a divisive vote on a European Alliance - The Hounding of Peers Baskerville: Is the Hound back on Dartmoor? Holmes and Watson investigate Mr Pearson mixes the canon with elite sport, business high jinks, a musical mystery, a literary mystery, Realpolitik and, in The Hounding of Peer Baskerville rolls the most famous of all detective stories on twenty years. A must for traditionalists, lovers of mystery, and anyone who likes a rattling good read.

Download or read book The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Apocryphile Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The canon of Sherlock Holmes adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle contains fifty-six stories and four novels. But there were yet other adventures and artifacts pertaining to Mr. Holmes not listen in the canon. Peter Haining has collected them here, complete with informative and entertaining introductions. This special, revised collector's edition is profusely illustrated. A must for any Sherlock enthusiast.

Download or read book The Curious Book of Sherlock Holmes Characters written by Mike Foy and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the scene, 221b baker street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are in their rooms, Holmes is smoking his pipe staring at the ceiling, "Watson he cries, What do you know about Vanderbilt? Make a long arm and look in that wonderful book 'The Curious Book of Sherlock Holmes Characters', a truly remarkable work, packed will information about every character we have encountered in our 56 short stories and 4 novellas. This writer has even included that carbuncle eating goose and that lazy dog that did nothing." Watson stretched out his arm and picked it up from the coffee table, "I like to keep it handy, it looks so nice on this table, giving the whole room an air of sophistication. In addition it's so large and thick, it would stop an air rifle bullet at a thousand yards. Only the other day I looked up Captain Calhoun and Messrs. Biddle, Hayward and Moffat and found that there was a link between these individuals." Holmes thought a moment, and said "What links Miss Hunter, Miss Smith, Miss Westbury and Miss De Merville?", "Too easy" cried Watson. "What about this Holmes, get those braincells working, Which Canon story has 4 totally unrelated people with the same surname (last name), I can give you a clue, one was a policeman, one was an alias, one was a teen and one was an official. " "And this book lists them all?" asked Holmes, "Yes, there are over one thousand characters in it and of course, we both get a special mention, and it's illustrated throughout" "Sidney Paget again, I suppose?" "Oh no, not just him, but artists like Frederic Dorr Steele of Collier's fame, Ernest Flammarion, F. H. Townsend, Josef Friedrich, Paul Thiriat, Richard Gutschmidt, Arthur Twidle et al. It's a must have for anyone seriously into Us." Mike Foy's mammoth book includes all the characters (animals included) from the Sherlock Holmes canon, with as many illustrations as possible. It's one of the largest compilations of its kind and an excellent reference resource for Sherlock Holmes fans.

Download or read book A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories written by Jay Ganguly and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are no strangers to peculiar cases. Be it the dilemma of an Indian princess on the run, perfectly healthy people dropping dead as divine punishment, being challenged to a duel, a heartbroken and suicidal young man, a beautiful woman claiming to be Mrs. Holmes, a little boy who loves his dog, an old Scottish ghost that traditionally haunts husbands of pregnant women - there is very little they haven't seen (and solved). But, besides regular adventures, there are quite a few questions - Where was Holmes during the Great Hiatus? How was Sherlock Holmes as a child? Who was ‘the most repellent man'? What happened after ‘The Five Orange Pips’? What ingenious crime did Holmes solve by observing ‘the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day’? A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes brings together a baker’s dozen of such stories. These are all traditional-style pastiches published in various anthologies from 2015 - 2020, including the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. Jayantika Ganguly, better known as Jay, is an international Sherlockian from India who believes there can never be enough Sherlockian stories.

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 8 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando Pearson, master narrator of history and Holmestry, has done it again. In this eighth volume of the acclaimed Redacted Sherlock Holmes we learn: - what Moriarty had done to be regarded as the Napoleon of crime - why Watson's wound was first described as being in the shoulder and then in the leg; - what happened in the first Hiatus between Holmes and Watson meeting after the Battle of Maiwand in 1880 and the first dated case in 1887; - the fate of Agatha, Holmes's fiancée from Charles Augustus Milverton Holmes also discovers a King of England while Mycroft suppresses the acts of a monster.

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume V written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five sensational Sherlock Holmes stories by Orlando Pearson followed by three meditations hinting at the most radical theory yet about the Great Baker Street Detective. A Type of Infamy - Holmes investigates a mysterious disappearance in 1938; The Fourth Student - shocking events in the worlds of athletics and medicine; A Question of Time - Holmes, Churchill, and Realpolitik at Britain's finest hour; The Sleeper's Cache - the sequel to the Bruce Partington Plans with Machiavellian manoeuvring by Mycroft; The Other Woman - Holmes's second female nemesis and a musical discovery; and Three Holmesian Meditations - an investigation into the true nature of the enigma that is Sherlock Holmes Mr Pearson's previous works have been hailed by the Church Times as "Clever, thought-provoking, and terrific fun". This description applies just as aptly to this latest collection. A must for traditionalists, lovers of crime fiction, and anyone who likes a thrilling read.

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 7 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two kings, a model, a traitor, two wombats, two poets, an accountant, more lobbyists than you can count, three titans of business, two artists, a pawnbroker…and Sherlock Holmes. Orlando Pearson presents them all in the latest addition to the acclaimed Redacted Sherlock Holmes series. The Poet and his Muse - a life-changing discovery in Highgate Cemetery; A Study in Black and Orange - the race to find a missing royal artefact; The Cherry-Tree and the Comma - poetry, treason, and blackmail; M Harris Smith - the woman with whom Holmes had a professional association; and A Story with a Health-Warning - death, spirits, and taxes. An irresistible blend of Holmestry and history.

Download or read book Jack London and Conan Doyle written by Dale L. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Complete Set 3 written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Review. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart'. Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in Opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride - these are cases so fiendishly complex that only the great Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate. For he, and he alone, has the extraordinary faculty of perception and almost unhuman energy which could solve them ...

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 4 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five more sizzlingly scandalous Sherlock Holmes stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson - The Baron of Wimbledon: Holmes averts an injustice and makes a dramatic self-discovery - On Consistent Luck: What an enables an industry to enjoy constant good fortune? Sherlock Holmes shows how - Variations on an Enigma: Holmes unravels one Enigma and analyses another - A Study in Red, White and Blue: A diplomatic coup after a divisive vote on a European Alliance - The Hounding of Peers Baskerville: Is the Hound back on Dartmoor? Holmes and Watson investigate Mr Pearson mixes the canon with elite sport, business high jinks, a musical mystery, a literary mystery, Realpolitik and, in The Hounding of Peer Baskerville rolls the most famous of all detective stories on twenty years. A must for traditionalists, lovers of mystery, and anyone who likes a rattling good read.

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 6 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando Pearson presents five more scandalously entertaining stories in his well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series - A Perilous Engagement: Mycroft Holmes and a Whitehall whitewash; - Death at Tennis: The hunt for the lady who fled the ball; - An Encirclement Thwarted: Espionage work at the outbreak of World War I; - The Sorceress and the Sea-Lord: A financial scandal and a familiar discovery; and - De Profundis: Holmes and Watson at the worst place on earth in 1945 Pearson mixes the Great Baker Street detective with history both familiar and unfamiliar to deliver his customary heady brew of Holmesiana.

Download or read book The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 3 written by Orlando Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of THE REDACTED SHERLOCK HOLMES presents six more scintillating stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson about the great Baker Street detective. Holmes investigates: - Alarming events at the medical practice next door to Dr Watson; - Missing autograph manuscripts in Fascist Italy; - Climate change and a mysterious birth in London in 1894/95; - Tax evasion by the London Softwear Company; - The role of cricket in the rise of Hitler; and - A Kafkaesque plot which foreshadows the banking crash of 2007/08 Mr Pearson mixes the Canon with events from history both very recent and from earlier epochs to show-case the talents of the Baker Street sleuth. In this latest volume: - Dr Anstruther's Practice; - The Red Priest's Treasure Trove; - A Seasonal Tale; - A Dutch Sandwich; - A New Line of Attack; and - The Trial of Joseph Carr

Download or read book Wiggins Son of Sherlock written by Dorothy Ellen Palmer and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On New Year’s Day 1891, Sherlock Holmes summons the limping street urchin, Wiggins, to Baker Street and decrees he must die at dawn. Wiggins, however, has other plans. To fulfil the dying wish of his mother, Irene Adler, he schemes with his two formidable American aunties to keep two important facts from the great detective: Mrs. Hudson is actually his Aunt Grizelda, and he is both Holmes’ child and a girl pretending to be a boy. Through a series of mysterious letters Adler bequeathed to Wiggins, the dark backstory of her parents and all their long-kept family secrets unravel. To flee the mad King of Bohemia trying to claim Wiggins as his heir, Holmes and Wiggins begin their Great Hiatus. From Mycroft to Moriarty, from Dr. John H. Watson to the Baker Street Irregulars, from P.T. Barnum to Jumbo the Elephant, Wiggins learns little is what it seems. Slowly learning to trust each other, Holmes and Wiggins travel from London to Reichenbach Falls to New York City to a small farm in Canada which holds the secrets of their family history. Together, they correct the errors in Watson’s tales, bond over Wiggins’ disability, drop their masquerades, and deduce a father and daughter future.

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Monster Hunter written by Michael Moreau and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes is a timeless character, beloved by many. This is not that Holmes. The year is 1880, 11 years prior to the classic stories that we know, and we step into an alternate universe where monsters are not just under the bed but around every corner. Holmes must use all of his intellectual prowess to sort through this strange underworld of creatures once believed to be only the stuff of lore and children's nightmares. Having abandoned his career as a private investigator the quintessential sleuth is about to make the acquaintance of Dr. John Watson, and with the help of his peculiar new ally, as well as some re-imagined versions of other classic Holmes characters, he must endeavor to unravel a mystery that seems to be emanating from the very halls of justice itself. For you see, there is a terror at Scotland Yard!

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes The Whitechapel Vampire written by Dean P. Turnbloom and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack the Ripper is on the loose, terrorizing the streets of London’s seamy East End In this fast-paced novel set in the Victorian London, a string of heinous murders in London’s East End has Inspector Abberline of Scotland Yard baffled and his boss, Commissioner Sir Charles Warren furious that no arrests have been made of the culprit the newspapers have dubbed “Jack the Ripper”. With pressure for an arrest mounting, a reluctant Abberline calls on Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for assistance. Using a combination of intuition, luck, and good old-fashioned police work, the trail they follow leads them directly to Baron Antonio Barlucci. The wealthy Italian financier is a long time family friend of Sir Charles and a ruthless vampire. His trail of blood stretches from Paris to London and if he’s not captured soon an innocent young Italian immigrant will swing from the gallows for a murder he didn’t commit. The baron, though, has other plans. He’s come to London to enlist the aid of a young American, Dr Alan Tremaine, to cure his vampirism. To complicate matters, the baron has fallen in love with Sir Charles's niece, Abigail Drake. Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, “Jack the Ripper” aficionados and fans of old school vampires will find something to love in this meticulously researched novel that dares cross multiple genres. DEAN TURNBLOOM was born in southern Indiana in 1954. Seventh child of a coal miner, he joined the US Navy in 1973, where he served for thirty years.

Download or read book Finding Casey written by Jo-Ann Mapson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is nesting in the home she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unknown to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister Casey disappeared-in a time before she'd ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she'd finally buried.A love story, a family story, a story of searching and the bond between sisters, Finding Casey is a testament to human resilience.