Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes
Volume IV
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James Innes Watson continues to make available stories from the manuscripts that he inherited from his great-great-grandfather Dr. John H. Watson. These are stories, that for whatever reason, Watson did not publish during his life. This collection features stories that are all mentioned in previously published cases by Conan Doyle, but all that was previously known about them was their somewhat enigmatic titles. In this volume there are the accounts of six cases: (1) The Tide-waiter, in which Holmes and Watson are summoned to the Channel Island of Guernsey to solve a case of smuggling. (2) The Delicate Affair of the Reigning Family of Holland, where Holmes investigates the attempt of German Chancellor Bismarck to start a war that could have led to WWI in 1887. (3) The Manor House, a case of food-poisoning leads to two murders, both in locked rooms! (4) The Adventures of Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa, a family inheritance dispute leads to the extinction of a British ungulate. (5) The Abbas Parva Tragedy, Holmes solves a British canal tragedy involving a sad old sailor. (6) The Arnsworth Castle Business, a painting is stolen, or is it?
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James Innes Watson continues to make available stories from the manuscripts that he inherited from his great-great-grandfather Dr. John H. Watson. These are stories, that for whatever reason, Watson did not publish during his life. This collection features stories that are all mentioned in previously published cases by Conan Doyle, but all that was known about them was their somewhat enigmatic titles. Here are the cases of the Tide-waiter, the Delicate Affair of the Reigning Family of Holland, the Manor House, the Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa, the Abbas Parva Tragedy, and the Arnsworth Castle Business. They see Holmes and Watson travel to the Channel Islands, to Amsterdam and Alsace-Lorraine, and then in England to the fen country of Suffolk and the Home Counties.
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David B. Beckwith was born in Cumbria, U.K. His Family emigrated to Western Australia in 1969. David lives on a 2.1 hectare block of native bush land in a rural region bordering the city of Perth, the capital of Western Australia where in his retirement from the computer industry, he and his wife enjoy an envious lifestyle with chickens Cilla, Dusty, and Lulu. There is also native fauna: spiders, snakes, lizards, bandicoots, and brightly coloured parrots. This is his fourth book of Holmes’s tales. Visit: david.beckwith.net.au & holmes-chronicles.com