Yet another attempt to create the "missing cases" that Arthur Conan Doyle hinted at in the Canon but never got around to writing, such as the case of the giant rat of Sumatra. Only one of these short stories is a proper mystery -- and it is incredibly easy to solve. This book nicely mimics Doyle ...
As many fans of Sherlock Holmes will recall, "Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid." Tantalizing information, this - mentioned in passin...
June Thomson has taken several of Holmes' unpublished cases, as noted in Conan Doyle's stories, as her basis for the tales in The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes. She presents them as recovered from Watson's Army tin dispatch box, which was in the care of Cox & Co., whose building was bombed ...
Exploring the friendship of the inscrutable sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his redoubtable companion, Doctor Watson -- a bond that survived forty-six years -- this scrupulously researched biography constructs the fascinating story of their relationship, for the most part from evidence in the massive ...