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While staying at a seaside hotel Holmes and Watson find a dead man in one of the rooms. So begins an adventure extending rom the Bank of England to Dartmoor which will involve blackmail, murder, and forgery.
Roger Riccard, one of the most respected Sherlock Holmes authors, has again taken pen in hand to bring forth the final set of six adventures in a new series of short stories for your entertainment.The Uniform Which Wasn''t - An observation by Dr. Watson of a client''s military uniform not matching protocol, leads Holmes to investigate what the truth is behind a soldier''s request.The Victorian Principles - A well-known author is being threatened over his latest novel.The Wyt Resolution - The Wyt family is back and some are still seeking revenge for the murder of a cherished family member.Xavier Madison''s Lost Treasure - Can Holmes discover the meaning behind a famed archeologist''s mysterious last words?The Adventure at the Great Yorkshire Show - The two eldest heirs to the throne visit the first Great Yorkshire Show since the Great War. However, not all is peaceful in this bucolic setting.The Zuchen Family Plot - A Sussex neighbour of Holmes is found dead, but the victim''s nine year old son refuses to believe it was suicide and calls upon the retired detective for help.Sit back and enjoy reading this final volume of A Sherlock Holmes Alphabet of Cases, and watch out a brand new series of adventures, The Colourful Cases of Sherlock Holmes coming soon.
To many authors the only East End crimes of note are those that concern Jack the Ripper or the Kray Twins - both of which are covered in other books in this series. Here the reader will discover a selection of other criminal activities from piracy, to theft and the fencing of stolen goods, to the humorous cases of the burglar who fell asleep on the job, and the escapologist who ran away. Added to this is a potpourri of curiosities unique to the area.There are characters to meet such as Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man), Captain James Cook, and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. Strange events like the banquet held in a tunnel under the Thames, and the boy who was carried off by an escaped Bengal tiger and lived to tell the tale.With 35 places to read about and explore, East London has never seemed so interesting!
Holmes and Watson travel across the Continent to the isolated Kingdom of Bohemia, being imprisoned by friend and foe alike in an attempt to help the King who is threatened by several enemies.
This case, set at the Abbey School, begins when a young schoolmaster apparently commits suicide. Dr Watson agrees to replace him, thinking the task an easy one but little does he know that it will not be long before his life is in danger.
A distinctly unfortunate inventor discovers that he doesn't exist. Finding himself in this nightmare situation he consults Sherlock Holmes and presents the sage of Baker Street with one of his most baffling challenges. Is it a simple case of amnesia or something far more sinister? The story involves some hair-raising transcontinental adventures and nightmare dealings with the hazardous flying machines of the day. Dr Watson lends a little light relief when forced into door to door commerce.
Author Val Andrews was always at his best when writing about the world of entertainment and Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery is no exception.A famous magician is invited by the King to give a command performance at Sandringham, but tragically the brilliance of the entertainment is marred by the unexpected disappearance of a priceless painting from the music room.Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate and are able to recover the artwork without too much difficulty. However, this is only the start of the adventure which will see Holmes undergo a near-death experience. This story also sees the detective's deductive powers being tested to the limit as he unravels yet another mystery from the fertile imagination of Val Andrews.
What starts as horseplay at Blackheath Golf Club, escalates into attempted murder as the 1896 Open Championship at Muirhead beckons and Alfred Bullimore competes for the trophy. Holmes and Watson travel to Scotland to advert a murder.
Holmes and Watson travel to Russia to aid the Tsar and his family who are subjected to poisoning. Is this a Bolshevik plot? Who is the shadowy mastermind following them? What role does Holmes play in saving the Tzar?
Holmes is engaged by a personal friend of King Edward VII to investigate a very curious will written by an eccentric millionaire. It contains a series of puzzles that Holmes needs to solve before rivals get their hands on the fortune.
Charnock provides an absorbing insight into uncharted territory of the Sherlock Holmes universe, in what is said to be amongst the very best of Sherlockian pastiches ever written.
It is 1916 and Holmes investigates how military secrets are being passed to the enemy from Salisbury Plain to the Western Front. A trap is set and soon the spy ring is infiltrated and a secret tunnel found that may alter the course of the war.
As the twentieth century dawns, Holmes and Watson hear a knock on the door. Their enigmatic guest is Abdul Faziel, an Arab man from the mysterious land of Marrafaze – a land only rumoured to exist.Son of the Sheik, Faziel is fleeing his homeland to seek help. His father has been turned against him by the connivance of his brother, Mustapha, and the Grand Wazir. Mustapha wishes to usurp the throne and dispose of anyone who gets in his way.The plot thickens when Sherlock visits his brother Mycroft. Mycroft insists that Sherlock journey to Marrafaze in order to make diplomatic contact with the Sheikdom, over the fate of a certain mineral that has been discovered there – a mineral that could be manipulated for warfare, and disastrous if in the wrong hands.But there is no map to Marrafaze, and Holmes and Watson must embark upon an arduous trek across the Sahara desert, voyaging through uncharted territory.Battling alone through the blistering heat, with food and water in short supply, it seems they’ll never be able to navigate a way out of the barren wilderness.When they finally make it to Marrafaze, ‘the end of the world’, they encounter a land ruled by religious superstition and the whims of the Grand Wazir. Isolated in strange and incomprehensible territory, Holmes and Watson find themselves in unimaginable danger.
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