Sherlock Holmes And The Sword Of Osman (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Another warm, hazy Edwardian summer lay just over the horizon. Gone were the harsh winter months with seas of fog so thick a gondola would be of more use on London’s streets than a carriage. In my pocket was a communication posted some six months earlier from the interior of the African Continent. It contained a stupendous invitation to come to the Congo to set up a medical hut among the Pygmies. It was signed by a P. J. Pretorius. I marvelled at the many pairs of feet and forked sticks which brought the letter from the depths of Ruanda to Mombassa in British East Africa and thence by Royal Mail to my consulting rooms in Marylebone. There had been a time in my boyhood when the map of the world was full of blank spaces. Now only the heart of Africa and the Amazon rainforest remained. I left my premises for the calm of Regent’s Park and found a bench looking out over the boating-lake. Gentlemen of leisure were taking their morning walk. I was gratified to note a few strollers carrying copies of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, a selection of my cases first published in The Strand Magazine with original illustrations by Mr.
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