The original four novels and fifty-six short stories (leaving out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s two plays and several other small writings about Holmes) comfortably fill a single large volume. Since just this isn’t enough and nature abhors a vacuum, it’s no wonder that the rema...
– Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches New Scotland Yard sat at the end of Derby Street, on the east side of Parliament Street on the Victoria Embankment. The turreted building, in a Scottish design, was built on the foundation of what originally was going to be an opera house. It...
What is your emergency?” “I think someone’s in my house. My dog’s barking like crazy.” “What is your address?” “928 Senter Street, with an ‘S.’ Hurry!” “We’ll send a car right away.” ...
Down these mean streets a man must go...Along the way I picked up my nephew Brian’s baseball bat from the kitchen. It was only aluminum but it felt comforting in my hand. I held it like a club. Outside the suite, added on by the previous owners for the wife’s parents, I pa...