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I sprang to my feet, my hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its… Continue reading HAPPY HOOOOOUNDAWEEN!!!
Give it a listen! FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY - A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure is out on audio. Just in time for the holidays. A FIVE-STAR Sherlock Holmes Mystery written from a women's perspective by Gretchen Altabef. Brilliantly narrated by J.T. McDaniel. J.T. McDaniel's Scottish lilt adds authenticity to the voices of Doctor Watson and… Continue reading FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY Audiobook is out NOW!
NEW 5-STAR REVIEW for Five Miles of Country Reviewed in the United Kingdom. Altabef triumphantly... brings in new characters... a great sense of period... expanded roles for Mrs Hudson... Irene Adler... Murray... an intriguing murder plot located on the world’s first film set... has the reader eager to turn the page and find out what… Continue reading A Bangingly Good read!
You look at THESE SCATTERED HOUSES, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation, and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there . . . Had this lady who appeals to us for help gone… Continue reading “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” & My Sherlock Novels
5-STARS for Gretchen Altabef’s Sherlock Holmes: Five Miles of Country is likely to draw those who like innovation. The year is 1896. Sherlock Holmes meets Thomas Edison. At the dawn of Cinema, a beautiful and talented Broadway danseuse is murdered in Edison’s New Jersey Laboratory. Irene Adler encounters ghosts on Broadway. Harry Houdini mystifies the… Continue reading Five Miles Of Country
My new Sherlock Holmes novel is due out March 5th, 2024. Amazon: Goodreads: Barnes & Nobel: MX Publishing Author Page: “Do you know, Watson,’ said he, ‘that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You… Continue reading FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY Available for Preorder NOW!
Posted on Dec 14, 2023 by Gretchen Altabef Thank you most generous and curious readers. Your brilliant involvement in the FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY Kickstarter campaign has come to a close at three times over the original bid!!! My best yet! Such a start bodes well for the success of this new Sherlock Holmes mystery. Please be assured… Continue reading Kickstarter Success for my new Novel – FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
For Holmes' birthday, a taste of my new novel, FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY. Watson describes his friend: Holmes was in truth not as impenetrable as he seemed. He was as malleable as any human man in this time and place could be. And for some reason, he regarded our friendship as a chance to explore… Continue reading Happy 170th Birthday Sherlock Holmes!
Starts NOW! Click on NOW to be redirected to my KICKSTARTER. LAUNCH of my KICKSTARTER Campaign - FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY. There are Rewards to award, and Deductions to be made. This is your chance to support me as an author. The campaign runs until January 14th 2024. Some Rewards: A signed First Edition of… Continue reading KICKSTARTER for my new Novel FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
“Amazing, ecstatic, overjoyed, fabulously flabbergasted, and of course, humbled by this fantastic award.” During the inaugural Doylean Honors celebration of the ACD Society, I was honored for excellence in Fiction!. I am grateful beyond measure for this momentous Best Fiction of 2022 Award. The awarded short story was “Sir Arthur and the Time Machine” published… Continue reading Honored for Excellence in Fiction!
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