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Extraordinary News! SHERLOCK HOLMES FAR & WIDE is NOW launched on my holiday Kickstarter! For the next 30 days, it is a way to get the book in your hands before it is even released. Signed copies are also available. To my American fans, you can purchase it free of overseas postal charges.
Sherlock Holmes–Far And Wide is my fifth book. It is a compilation of my somewhat broader short stories, parody, and one play, originally published separately in anthologies and magazines, and now collected in this volume. Plus new, short pieces written for this book.
“Sir Arthur & The Time Machine” was a pondering of the crucible Arthur Conan Doyle faced during his decision to write “The Adventure of the Final Problem”. When the Belanger Brothers called for stories for their anthology, Sherlock Holmes Further Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells, Ms Altabef was inspired to write her first Sci-Fi story. Soon after, it received Fiction Honours from the ACD Society.
The play, “A Toast Darling”, was inspired by a humorous reference of Mr Jeremy Brett to a meeting between himself and Mr Sherlock Holmes that neither of them showed up to. George Roland Wills’s story, “A Short Phantasy. Jeremy Brett meets Mr. Sherlock Holmes”, and the work of editing Maureen Whittaker’s book, Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes, led to this play.
“Boxing Day Brother Mine”, a unique holiday adventure placed in the middle of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”. Sherlock brings his brother Mycroft into the heart of his dilemma.
“Black Peter’s Misplaced Mariners” is an attempt to solve one of the mysteries Arthur Conan Doyle so brilliantly left behind in his story, “The Adventure Of Black Peter”.
Altabef wrote her first parody for this volume, “Crime is common. Humour is rare. The Many Deaths of Sherlock Holmes”. The tradition of parody in Sherlock Holmes’ writing dates back to 1893, when “Under the Clock”, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre. This unforgettable production starred Charles Brookfield as Sherlock Holmes and Seymour Hicks as Doctor Watson.
“In The Land Of The Living” appeared in Mystery Magazine. The story follows Holmes each step of the way from the Reichenbach Fall to his rescue of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama.
“A Watsonian Conundrum”, was written for The Watsonian Journal.
“Miss Annie Harrison’s Rose Soliloquy”. A reviewing of Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty”, from a woman’s perspective.
“Mrs Hudson’s Garden”, was the piece that birthed Altabef’s novel, The Keys of Death.
“A Scandal in Baker Street” is an addition to Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, “A Scandal in Bohemia”.
The complete 1904 Strand Magazine story, “The Adventure Of Black Peter”, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Gretchen Altabef is an award-winning author of new Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Her books brim with imagination and a news reporter’s excitement for the true history of the day. THESE SCATTERED HOUSES brings Holmes to New York during his ‘great hiatus’. REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS follows in London. During the investigation of a gruesome murder, Sherlock seizes a second chance with the woman, and they marry in an anarchist-ridden Paris. The trilogy continues with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY, where Holmes returns to New York to solve a murder in Thomas Edison’s premier film studio, and Mrs Irene Adler-Holmes triumphs on Broadway. THE KEYS OF DEATH is a genesis story of the world’s most famous address, 221B Baker Street and it’s new inhabitants, as told by Mrs Hudson. Sherlock Holmes FAR & WIDE is a unique Sherlockian compilation of short stories, parody, and one play.
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