Sherlock Holmes the Impossible Cases

McGachey, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1888993790 / ISBN 13: 9781888993790

Published by Dark Regions Press, Colusa, 2010

Colusa: Dark Regions Press:, 2010. First edition, TBBO, Trade paperback, SIGNED, Fine, 273 pp. Cover artwork by: M. Wayne Miller Signed by the author on the half-title page. First edition, TBBO, Trade paperback, SIGNED, Fine, Seller Inventory # 68579

Synopsis:

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."-Sherlock Holmes

In these recently discovered accounts, sealed and hidden from prying eyes for almost a century, Dr. John H. Watson puts pen to paper once more, as he accompanies his friend, that most rational of detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the utterly irrational realm of the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the supernatural.

Enter the gaslit world of Holmes and Watson-a world caught halfway between the bright glare of science and logic and the darker clutches of superstition and fear-a world of unknown creatures, secret seances, ancient curses, and forbidden knowledge-where the enquiring mind of the world's first consulting detective must search for the answers to some new and challenging questions...

What was it about the loathsome contents of a match-box that sent an apparently fearless man stark raving mad?

How can Sherlock Holmes be called upon to investigate a murder where the victim is his client, and where the murder has already taken place?

Can mere words in a stolen manuscript really open men's minds to maddeningly terrifying visions of a world beyond our own?

In order to find the solutions to these problems, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson may yet discover that sometimes it is not so easy to eliminate the impossible!

About the Author: Daniel McGachey grew up in Kilsyth, a small town on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. A steady diet of Dr. Who, 2000 A.D. comic strips, Rathbone and Bruce, and later Brett, Burke and Hardwicke as Holmes and Watson, and the films of Hammer and Amicus left him with an abiding love of the frightening, fantastical and mysterious that would lead him to the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nigel Kneale, and the pleasing terrors of M.R. James.

He relocated to Dundee in 1989, where he works in publishing, having written scripts for some well-loved children's comic strip characters, more recently focusing on digital media and animation.

His ghost stories have appeared in The BHF Book of Horror Stories, and Black Book of Horror series of anthologies, and Filthy Creations magazine, while his radio plays have been broadcast as part of the syndicated mystery and suspense series Imagination Theatre. He is also a regular contributor of reviews of television and radio adaptions of M.R. James's ghost stories to The Ghosts and Scholars M.R. James Newsletter.

His first collection, They That Dwell in Dark Places and Other Ghost stories, was published by Dark Regions Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sherlock Holmes the Impossible Cases
Publisher: Dark Regions Press, Colusa
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: M. Wayne Miller
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition