Sherlock Holmes and The Giant Rat of Sumatra
Sherlock Holmes and The Giant Rat of Sumatra

Author: Paul D. Gilbert

Publisher:

Published: 2023-01-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781804240359

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Autumn 1898. London. A scandal in the making. Dockworkers are stunned by the arrival of the Matilda Briggs, a long overdue tea cutter returning from Calcutta. Abandoned by its crew, the dust-covered vessel has seems to have drifted into a vacant berth guided by an unseen hand. The only member of the crew aboard is a lone cabin boy in the throes of death, following a murderous attack. The ship's log has also vanished without a trace. All that remains is a series of indecipherable markings have been scratched into the ship's decking. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful Watson are called to divest the Matilda Briggs of its secrets, only to be subtly warned off by the ship's insurers. Then a young man appears at 122B Baker Street with a mysterious packet from his missing father - who disappeared journeying to London from Calcutta. A confounding conspiracy seems set to boil over. What was in the cargo besides innocent tea chests? Will the violence and rebellion that follow shift the tides from the favour of the Great Detective? Is the world finally ready for this tale?

Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra

Author: Alan Vanneman

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780786709564

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A seemingly impossible murder in a London rooming house sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on a perilous search for a killer that leads them from England to Egypt, India, and Singapore.

The Adventure of the Coal-Tar Derivative
The Adventure of the Coal-Tar Derivative

Author: Steven Philip Jones

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2022-02-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1787058425

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Holmes and Watson’s exploits during the Great Hiatus are revealed in a series of short stories and novellas. These adventures include how they separately helped stop the Moriarities from starting a world war and using a legendary stone to destroy London. Also revealed are the facts behind the Giant Rat of Sumatra and Holmes’s encounter with Jack the Ripper.

Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara
Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara

Author: Alan Vanneman

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780786712977

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Set within the milieu of Sherlock Holmes, this mystery novel follows Watson and Holmes on a search through London for clues in a perplexing crime scene that seems to have disappeared before their eyes.

Sherlock Holmes: The Secret Journals
Sherlock Holmes: The Secret Journals

Author: June Thomson

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 8184955812

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Secrets, suspense, and conspiracy. London through the eyes of the great Sherlock Holmes As Dr Watson’s old manuscripts, deliberately unpublished to protect the names of those they concern, are released into the public, a multitude of previously unseen cases are revealed. An American millionaire receives threatening letters from a sinister Black Hand... A mysterious box terrifies a shop keeper... Holmes and Watson feel the influence of an old enemy from beyond the grave... And a tragedy occurs which Sherlock Holmes will never be able to forgive himself for failing to prevent. From the smoky streets of London to a countryside mental institution, the renowned detective and his faithful sidekick Watson must use all their cunning skills to solve this array of mysteries. With murders, madness and diamonds abound, June Thomson continues the Holmes canon with a brilliance and ingenuity that perfectly captures where Conan Doyle left off. JUNE THOMSON, a former teacher, has published over thirty novels, twenty of which feature her series detective Inspector Jack Finch and his sergeant, Tom Boyce. She has also written six pastiche collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Her books have been translated into many languages. June Thomson lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Ted Riccardi

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1681770059

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From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return. What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's “great hiatus” after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain grip of the British empire over its colonies, the murders and other mayhem Holmes confronts often have potentially grave political repercussions. Filled with local color and Holmes’ signature wit and logic, Sherlockians the world over will relish this missing chapter in the life of the world’s greatest detective.

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 8726586363

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Mr. Robert Ferguson thinks his wife might be a vampire. He’s caught her sucking their baby’s neck and since that discovery, she has locked herself in her room, only allowing their Peruvian maid to bring her food. Her behaviour had been strange before that and she had struck Ferguson’s son from an earlier marriage twice. The boy, fifteen, has been left handicapped by a childhood accident. Holmes is immediately convinced he has solved the case upon hearing the story but he follows Ferguson back home to clear the mystery. "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" is part of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.

Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror

Author: Philip Pullman

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780748740628

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In a play that both dramatizes and makes fun of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective and Dr. Watson investigate a report of the Giant Rat of Sumatra and match wits with Professor Moriarty.

And Then There Was No One
And Then There Was No One

Author: Gilbert Adair

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0571319785

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The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on Slavorigin's head, almost none of the Festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion. Except Evadne Mount, of course, the stubborn amateur sleuth and bestselling crime novelist from Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd and A Mysterious Affair of Style. Neither of those two cases, however, prepared her for the jaw-dropping twists of this new investigation, which climaxes at Meiringen's principal tourist attraction, the Reichenbach Falls - the site of Holmes's fatal confrontation with his nemesis, Moriarty . . .