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Far And Wide

Sherlock Holmes-FAR AND WIDE storybook released in paperback, hardback, and E-book available everywhere! Audiobook TBA. Gretchen Altabef’s books brim with imagination & history. FAR & WIDE stories, parody, and one play. Novels: THESE SCATTERED HOUSES, REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS, FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY and THE KEYS OF DEATH. Sherlock Holmes told from a woman’s perspective.

Sherlock Holmes Far And Wide. Sherlock Holmes, the original cozy mystery solved around the fire at No. 221B Baker Street. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, MX Publishing, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, etc.

Immerse yourself in a superb collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories. Get ready to walk away in Holmes’s bootsteps from the Reichenbach fall. Travel by time machine with Arthur Conan Doyle to solve the greatest dilemma of his adventurous life.

The tribute, 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 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”.

“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. 

“A Scandal in Baker Street” asks the question: Would Sherlock Holmes merely gape at a mysterious someone who wishes him “Goodnight” in Baker Street?

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 stories. 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 by Thomas Edison to solve a murder in his 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, nine stories and one play, including the award-winning, “Sir Arthur and the Time Machine”.