The Fourth Student

di Orlando Pearson

The sequel to the canonical story, The Three Students. As Holmes and Watson sit at breakfast having solved the case, the wrongdoer they have just identified interrupts them.

A fourth student, his main rival in the long-jump, is behaving in a very peculiar manner, and is carrying all before him on the sports-field.

The trail takes Holmes and Watson to a barber’s shop where they acquire a preparation which the barber markets as a performance enhancer.

But this is by no means the end of a murky trail to discover how to win Olympic gold.

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The Hounding of Peers Baskerville

di Orlando Pearson

It is 1909 and twenty years have passed since the great Devon adventure. Holmes is consulted by Sir Henry Baskerville’s son, Peers, after a shepherd in the baronet’s clothes is found dead at the foot of a cliff and rumours fly that the hound is back.

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A Type of Infamy

di Orlando Pearson

It is March 1938 and  a print worker petitions Holmes about the disappearance of a fellow worker at the Daily Mail newspaper. 

Holmes investigates and interviews the newspaper’s proprietor, Viscount Rothermere, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German ambassador to London. 

Diplomatic immunity and the weakness of the British government prevent any further action being taken in 1938, and the mystery is only finally solved in the ruins of Vienna in the bitter winter of 1945/6.

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The Queen, the Prince, and the Munshi

di Orlando Pearson

Holmes and Watson are seized by Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Edward Albert, who wants them to find evidence that his mother is unfit to serve as Queen.

In the royal residence at Balmoral, Holmes and Watson witness the aged Queen Victoria engage in some highly questionable behaviour and Holmes has to carry out some deft political manoeuvring, as he deals with an empire-threatening crisis.

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In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures of Mary Morstan Watson

di Mauro Castellini, Gian Luca Guerra, Stefano Guerra, Enrico Solito

We have all read the stories by Dr. John Watson in which he narrates his adventures with Sherlock Holmes, but behind every great man, there is a great woman… and Mary Morstan holds her own place in the hearts of all Sherlockians. Today, newly discovered papers reveal the role she played in the adventures we know so well, which cast a light on her frequent absences from home and which recount her own thrilling personal adventures in Victorian London in a series of poignant tales full of passion and mystery, pain and suspense, love and hope.

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The Dilemma of Mr Henry Baker

di Paul D. Gilbert

An old acquaintance, from a Christmas past, arrives at 221B Baker Street, to present Sherlock Holmes with another festive challenge.

Can the great detective come to Mr. Baker’s aid once again?

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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fourth Messenger

di Orlando Pearson

Soon after Holmes’s return from apparent death, Holmes and Watson return from a walk through London and find a preacher waiting for them. He wants their help in writing his account of the life of a religious leader in an Eastern Mediterranean country whose death has caused unparalleled speculation.

Shortly afterwards, the preacher is abducted.

The great Baker Street detective investigates before opining on the reliability of the testimony of the preacher. Holmes adduces some startling reasons for believing in the historical accuracy of the preacher’s testimony.

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The Baron of Wimbledon

di Orlando Pearson

The sportsman is being blackmailed on a matter of the utmost delicacy, and when the blackmailer reveals all to the National Socialist authorities, it is Holmes who comes to the rescue by asking Reichsmarschall, Herman Göring to intervene.

But is the better than expected outcome to the case a result of Holmes’s intervention or is Cramm’s glamourous mother keeping her own role to herself.   And why does Frau von Cramm seem so familiar to Holmes?

It is only once Britain is on the brink of another war against Germany that the full truth dawns on Holmes.

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Sherlock Holmes - A Question of Time

di Orlando Pearson

It is May 1940. The British army has been routed and is awaiting its evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk.

Winston Churchill asks Holmes to stand by to provide advice on what steps to take in the face of the anticipated aerial onslaught of the Luftwaffe on British airfields.

As German attacks mount, Holmes offers unpalatable advice which Churchill accepts for want of an alternative. As German attacks switch from the airfields to production facilities, Holmes provides additional detective advice on a most unexpected matter. But it is the use to which Churchill puts the advice, which creates a rift between the two men, which remains unresolved at the end of the story.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Trial of Joseph Carr

di Orlando Pearson

In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K (here rendered Joseph Carr) is arrested one morning although he has not done anything wrong, and is put on trial although no charge is ever disclosed to him.

Here Holmes conducts his own investigation into the arrest and subsequent legal process and his solution has uncanny pre-echoes of the early 21^st century banking crisis and, in an extraordinary twist, Watson’s text even name-checks some of the people that caused it.

In its new guise The Trial emerges truly as a story of Holmes’s time, our time and for all time.

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Sherlock Holmes and the German Interpreter

di Orlando Pearson

It is 1930. The British Government commissions Holmes and Watson to travel to Germany in the company of leading German interpreter, Paul-Otto Schmidt, to help the authorities find the man who shot Horst Wessel, the leader of the Storm Troopers.

Holmes soon identifies Wessel’s attacker and takes part in a politically charged interrogation of him attended by the Gauleiter of Berlin, Joseph Gӧbbels.

The story climaxes at Wessel’s funeral where Gӧbbels delivers an incendiary speech to a baying crowd while Holmes muses on what good men should do in a world where evil thrives.

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Sherlock Holmes: A Seasonal Tale

di Orlando Pearson

“Is this the ending of days?” gasps Watson in this ground-breaking story of religion and the climate change.

Holmes is petitioned by the groom of the Bedlam lunatic asylum to investigate a mysterious birth that has taken place there.

And after the notorious winter of 1894/5, an inscrutable politician, gives Holmes a commission to investigate whether the climate is changing and whether industrialisation is the cause.

Holmes’s investigation into both cases has ambiguous results and Holmes is left to philosophise on the parallels between the two.

A Sherlock Holmes story with many contemporary resonances.

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Sherlock Holmes - The Poet and his Muse

di Orlando Pearson

"Draw your chair up, good Watson, and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.”

After these words bring The Noble Batchelor to a close, Holmes lets his emotionless façade slip by the Baker Street fireside, as he tells Watson of his very first case. Dating back to 1869, the case takes in the Thames, London Zoo, Highgate Cemetery, a poet, and a beautiful and tragic female figure.

A must for all lovers of the outre.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Was Wanted

di Arthur Whitaker

Arthur Whitaker wrote and sent this clever novel to Arthur Conan Doyle, hoping to be published along with him. Doyle did not accept the idea but sent to Whitaker a check for ten guineas. This story was found many years later by Doyle's son Adrian in a trunk full of family papers. It was first published as an unpublished by Cosmopolitan magazine in August 1948.

When it was published Whitaker was able to prove that the novel was written by him by showing a carbon copy of the manuscript.

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Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Duke’s Study

di Victor Carstairs

Dr. Watson pays a visit to Sherlock Holmes at 221B, but when the caring landlady Mrs. Hudson tells him that she has neither seen nor heard from her lodger for a whole week, Watson begins to feel that his dearest companion might be in some trouble and resolves to undertake an investigation in the style of Sherlock Holmes which will disclose disturbing crimes halfway between past and present and prove that the former army surgeon is not at all the stupid friend of the gifted detective.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret of Colonel Warburton’s Insanity

di Paul D. Gilbert

Doctor John Watson finds that his dark and disturbing memories of the war in Afghanistan begin to resurface when he and his friend, Sherlock Holmes, are asked to save a distinguished soldier from a life of misery and disgrace. Employing an unusual disguise, they set about seeing that justice is finally done…

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A Scandal in Nova Alba - Stage-play version

di Orlando Pearson

Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories but he never got around to writing a whodunnit, and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre. The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect. He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer. There is many a twist in a familiar tale, before Holmes reveals the utterly unexpected truth. Two years after Delos’s publication of the story version of "A Scandal in Nova Alba", here it is as at last as a stage-play.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Danse Macabre

di Paul D. Gilbert

When a distraught widow informs Sherlock Holmes that a personal and romantic poem has mysteriously returned from her late husband's grave, Holmes' reluctantly agrees to investigate. There is more to this poem than meets the eye!

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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Black Plague

di Paul D. Gilbert

Once again he keeps Doctor Watson in the dark, as he dons a disguise and embarks on a mysterious and dangerous mission.

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The Minister and the Moguls

di Orlando Pearson

A junior Cabinet Minister commissions Holmes to investigate alleged anti-competitive practices in the tobacco industry. Holmes already has a major Government commission on his hands and offers Watson’s investigative services instead.

Watson travels to the Aachen opera festival to observe the CEO of one of the companies before Holmes appears and tells Watson of an investigation of his own.

The story ends with an operatic flourish although at the end Holmes and Watson are unclear as to the cause and effects of the events that follow their investigation. The Minister, on the other hand, seems happy enough with the outcome.

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A Scandal in Nova Alba

di Orlando Pearson

Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories. But he never got around to writing a whodunnit and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre.

The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect.

He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer.

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The Führer and his Deputies

di Orlando Pearson

May 1945. The British Government needs to decide whether to put Rudolph Heβ, Hitler’s deputy, on trial on for war crimes. Heβ flew to Britain in 1941 but no one has been able to work out why he came as he neither sought political asylum nor brought peace proposals.

Holmes is commissioned to carry out the interrogation of Heβ. This proves to be a highly dramatic affair as it reveals not only the totally unexpected reason for Heβ’s flight but also some completely unknown facts about Hitler.

Dr Watson’s papers on this case were only discovered in the summer of 2015 and this is the first time the true story can be told.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Risen Corpse

di Paul D. Gilbert

On a particularly cold and foggy Halloween, Doctor Watson is shaken to the core by the spectral sight of a women, long thought dead, hurrying anxiously along the murky thoroughfare of Baker Street!

Holmes and Watson immediately give chase, but the tale of this woman in white is not what either of them had expected. There are more secrets in heaven and hell…

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Historical Sherlock Holmes Pastiches

di Anonymous, J.M Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle

This collection of short stories, all related to the character of Sherlock Holmes and his universe, includes six pastiches written by J.M Barrie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, plus an anonymous writer.

They were written during the following years: 1891, 1896, 1903, 1904 and 1924, representing part of the history of Holmesian pastiches. These stories appeared the very first time on the following magazines/publications: My Evening with Sherlock Holmes by J.M. Barrie, published anonymously on Speaker on 28 November 1891; The Field Bazaar by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in the Bazaar number of the Student (on 20 November 1896); How Watson Learned the Trick by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House, edited by Methuen & Co. in June 1924; Sherlock Holmes: Discovering the Border Burghs, and, by Deduction, the Brig Bazaar by anonymous in The Book o' the Brig, published by George Lewis & Co., Selkirk, in 1903.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Christmas Stocking

di Paul D. Gilbert

Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson have their Christmas Eve interrupted with the news of a stolen piece of valuable jewellery.

However, they soon discover that their new client is harbouring a deadly secret… not everyone will have a merry Christmas!

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The Pursuit of the House-Boat

di John Kendrick Bangs

For all Sherlock Holmes lovers, we decided to publish this time a novel with Sherlock Holmes written by John Kendrick Bangs, first issued in 1897 by Harper & Brothers. It was also serialised in the famous Harper's Weekly during the same year, between February 6th and April 24th, 1897.

As reported on The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia online, The Pursuit of the House-Boat is a novel dedicated to “A. Conan Doyle, Esq., with the author's sincerest regards and thanks for the untimely demise of his great detective which made these things possible”.

After the House-Boat had been hijacked by Captain Kidd at the end of A House-Boat on the Styx, the various members of its club decided that to track it down, a detective would have to be called in. So they hired Sherlock Holmes, who, at the time of the book's publication, had indeed been declared dead by his creator.

This story is part of the so known Associated Shades series, an exclusive men's club in Hades, whose members are the shades of famous people, including Adam and Baron Munchausen but primarily classical writers: Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare, president Walter Raleigh, Johnson and Boswell, and many others. The series includes four books (A House-Boat on the Styx, 1895, The Pursuit of the House-Boat, 1897, The Enchanted Type-Writer, 1899 and Mr Munchausen,1901. All four books were illustrated by Peter Newell.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Last Pre-Raphaelite

di Victor Carstairs

The Last Pre-Raphaelite begins with an idle wait in the cosy drawing room of 221B, Baker Street: a mysterious client who desperately sought Sherlock Holmes’s help does not show up at the appointed time, seemingly no longer interested in his problem. Nevertheless, London’s most famous consulting detective is not accustomed to leaving a case unsolved and undertakes an investigation all the same. Aided by his faithful friend and passionate chronicler, John H. Watson, Holmes conducts a quest through the dark meanderings of the glittering metropolis and explores the modern reprise of the mythological relationship between love and death, where art in the blood may take on the strangest forms.

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