With the Holidays just around the corner, I’ve launched a holly-days Kickstarter for my new Sherlockian stories book, FAR & WIDE. Stop by and follow the clues in MY VIDEO.
There are PDF’s, hardbacks, paperbacks, all five of my books as PDF’s or signed paperbacks. Plus the Sherlock Holmes Page A Day Calendar 2025.
SHERLOCK HOLMES FAR & WIDE Holiday Kickstarter is the way to get the book in your mitts before it is even released. Signed copies are available, too. FAR & WIDE is my fifth book. A compilation of short stories, parody, and one play originally printed in anthologies and magazines. Now collected in one volume, plus new short pieces written for this book. Including the award-winning, “Sir Arthur and the Time Machine.” To my American fans, this Kickstarter is a way to purchase FAR & WIDE free of overseas postal charges.
“Sir Arthur & The Time Machine” was a pondering of the crucible which lead Arthur Conan Doyle to write “The Adventure of the Final Problem”. In order to find a cure for his wife who was diagnosed with incurable tuberculosis, Doyle borrowed H. G. Wells’ machine. He traveled ahead in time to Princeton in 1936, Zurich in 1948, Edinburgh in 1961, New York during the winter of 1980, and Los Angeles in 1981. Along the way he discovered a possible cure and his true relationship with Sherlock Holmes.
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.
“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”.
“In The Land Of The Living” appeared in Mystery Magazine. The story follows Sherlock Holmes as he flees the Reichenbach Fall in the spring of 1891. He is hunted by an assassin every step of the way through the high Alps from Rosenlaui to Grindelwald. The detective confronts his pursuer and travels onward to Florence and upward to Tibet in order to rescue the boy who would become 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”.
FAR & WIDE comes to a close with a reprinting of 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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