The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes - Softcover

Thomson, June

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749011432 ISBN 13: 9780749011437

Publisher: Allison and Busby, 2012

Synopsis

In Sherlock Holmes’s London, reputations are fragile and scandal can be ruinous. In order to protect the names of the good (and not-so-good), Dr. Watson comes to the decision that his accounts of some of his friend’s most brilliant cases must never see the light of day. Concealing the manuscripts in an old dispatch box deep in the vaults of a Charing Cross bank, Dr. Watson preserves the honor of others and in doing so proves himself a true gentleman as well as a good friend. But then a hundred years pass, and the mysteries outlast the memories of those they once could have harmed...

An aluminum crutch betrays the criminal who relies upon it for support... An Italian Cardinal lies dead in a muddy yard in Spitalfields... What do a pair of suspiciously successful gamblers have in common with the Transylvanian mind-reader, Count Rakoczi? And can Holmes and Watson outwit the jewel thief who has the nerve to steal from the King of Scandinavia?

About this title

About the Author:

JUNE THOMSON a former teacher, has published over twenty crime novels including other pastiches of Holmes’ short stories available from Allison & Busby. Her books have been translated into many languages. She lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Review:

Properly detailed and convincing... Thoroughly entertaining

About this edition

• Publisher: Allison and Busby
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0749011432
• ISBN 13: 9780749011437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260