I write about heroes and heroines and the art of true justice. Human heroes with human abilities. Genius is a human ability. Friendship is a human ability. Love is a human ability. I write Sherlock Holmes novels. And I take great joy in adding to Dr Doyle’s heroic stories something he left out – the history of the women of the day.
1 These Scattered Houses is a breakthrough novel for Sherlock Holmes and for Ms Altabef. The story takes place during the last month of his “3-year hiatus”. Holmes is undercover as Sigerson the explorer in New York. The villain is a Goliath. The lives of ordinary people inexorably rise to heroism.
2 Remarkable Power of Stimulus is a Sherlock Holmes novel with heart. After three years away, Holmes finds London awash in murders and 221B under siege. He arrives in Baker Street knowing he will find Watson’s friendship and unerring aim are as dependable as the British Rail. The return of Irene Adler inexorably leads to a wedding in anarchist ridden Paris. It is the true story of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, as told by Doctor Watson.
3 Five Miles of Country is Gretchen Altabef’s third novel in the Rachel Holmes series. The story brings Holmes and Watson to Thomas Edison’s “Imagination Factory” in New Jersey to solve the murder of a famed Vaudeville danseuse in the world’s first motion picture studio. Rachel returns to Vassar College with a vengeance. Mrs. Irene Adler-Holmes brings her unique Pirates of Penzance to Broadway, while early film pioneers invent an explosive new medium. Monsters in Leeds, New Jersey, and Poughkeepsie, New York, an angry ghost haunts forty-second street, while the city’s Tammany Hall thugs submerge Broadway into darkness and villainy.
Award-Winning author, Gretchen Altabef, publishes with MX Sherlock Holmes Books. These Scattered Houses, in Sherlock Holmes’s voice, chronicles a unique conclusion to his ‘Great Hiatus’. In Remarkable Power of Stimulus, Holmes finds London awash in murders, anarchists threatening Paris, and the return of Irene Adler. Under surveillance by Moriarty’s henchmen, Holmes steps into Baker Street knowing he will find Watson’s friendship and unerring aim are as dependable as the British Rail. FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY is Altabef’s third novel in the Rachel Holmes series. Holmes and Watson are called to Thomas Edison’s ‘Imagination Factory’ to solve the murder of a Vaudeville danseuse in the world’s first motion picture studio. THE KEYS OF DEATH is a genesis story of the young occupants of No. 221B Baker Street and how they solve Mr Hudson’s murder.
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