Official Site of Award-Winning Author Gretchen Altabef
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
I write about heroes and heroines and the art of true justice. Human heroes with human abilities. Genius is a human ability. Friendship is a human ability. Love is a human ability. I write Sherlock Holmes novels. And I take great joy in adding to Dr Doyle's heroic stories something he left out – the… Continue reading The Rachel Holmes Series with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
Murder, ghosts and mystery intertwine as Holmes and Watson navigate New York's diverse landscape alongside police chief Theodore Roosevelt.” --SH Magazine How wonderful to find my new novel listed here! One of 21 new books chosen to be in this section. And what an issue to be sure, the 40th Anniversary of Granada's fantastic Sherlock… Continue reading FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY in the new Sherlock Holmes Magazine
My publisher, MX Publishing is offering a free promotion for fans of my novels. For the rest of October collect all three audiocodes for my Sherlock Holmes Mystery books: THESE SCATTERED HOUSES, REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS, & THE KEYS OF DEATH. All you have to do is fill in the form on the MX website… Continue reading My AudioBook Codes for Free
The Keys of Death, Remarkable Power of Stimulus, These Scattered Houses - Three out of twenty top audiobook titles are Gretchen Altabef's Sherlock Holmes Novels. And narrated wonderfully by J.T. McDaniel. I am an MX author of new Sherlock Holmes novels. My writing springs from the same sense of justice as Dr. Watson’s, and Dr. Doyle’s. My… Continue reading OMG, 3 OF MY NOVELS ARE TOP 20 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks of 2023!
Ms. Altabef has done a sterling job. Holmes’s voice rings clear and true in this excellent novel. Grand Staircase Palais Garnier, Paris These Scattered Houses is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche written by Gretchen Altabef and published by MX Publishing, London. Set in New York near the end of the Great Hiatus – Sherlock Holmes finds… Continue reading These Scattered Houses Review by Margaret Walsh
Let us establish one fact immediately. Gretchen Altabef is a remarkably talented author . . . she eschews the formulas that so often appear in Holmes pastiches and sets about creating a new format. Let us establish one fact immediately. Gretchen Altabef is a remarkably talented author. In These Scattered Houses, the first book in… Continue reading Harry DeMaio’s Book Review of These Scattered Houses
For Sherlock Holmes fans: the terrifically talented author Gretchen Altabef does it again! Remarkable Power of Stimulus, the sequel to Gretchen Altabef's These Scattered Houses is, again, a riveting Sherlock Holmes mystery, written as if by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. Meticulously researched, and a delight to read! Ms. Altabef reunites Holmes, Dr. Watson, and… Continue reading Review: Remarkable Power of Stimulus by Ann Keech
I looked at him anew, with an understanding I never had before and with awe for the magnitude of such a mind. In a flash I understood the cocaine, his moods, and his genius. MX Publishing has bundled together These Scattered Houses and Remarkable Power of Stimulus. My action packed original story of Holmes alone,… Continue reading Two-fer: 1 Novel + 1 Sequel
Henry Gritten, Mathew Vassar's Springside, View of Gardener's Cottage, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1858. "Of the hundreds of Sherlock Holmes pastiche mysteries available to the Sherlockian, very few can match this book for a depth of historical research, finely crafted sentences and paragraphs, and a heart-stopping thrill of a story." Ms. Altabef takes the reader on… Continue reading These Scattered Houses Review by Craig Stephen Copland
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