A massive thanks to my 60 backers. Sherlock Holmes FAR AND WIDE Kickstarter reached goal three times over! Looks like I will be signing lots of books. Thank you, again for your support.
SHERLOCK HOLMES FAR & WIDE is my fifth book and will be released everywhere by MX Sherlock Holmes Books in the spring. A collection of ten short stories, parody, and a 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.”
“Sir Arthur & The Time Machine” was a pondering of the crucible which lead Arthur Conan Doyle to write “The Adventure of the Final Problem”. Ms Altabef was inspired to write her first Sci-Fi story.
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 “Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”. Sherlock brings brother Mycroft into 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 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” is a reviewing of Doyle’s “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 and grew from my gardening experience.
“A Scandal in Baker Street” is an addition to Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, “A Scandal in Bohemia”.
FAR & WIDE ends with a reprinting of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1904 Strand Magazine story, “Adventure Of Black Peter”.
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 anarchist-ridden Paris. The trilogy continues with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY. Holmes is called in 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 221B Baker Street and its inhabitants, as told by Mrs Hudson. Sherlock Holmes FAR & WIDE is a unique Sherlockian compilation of stories, parody, and one play.
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