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Sherlock Holmes : the game's afoot

10 reviews
Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies
Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for "Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural" series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth. Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as the puzzle of the Green Skull, the secret of the Brown Box, the conundrum of the Dragon of Lea Lane, as well as coming face to face once again with the Sussex Vampire. We also learn what really happened at the Reichenbach Falls when Holmes had his fateful encounter with Professor Moriarty. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle in creating a wonderful feast of Sherlockian entertainment
Print Book, English, 2008
Wordsworth Editions, Ware, U.K., 2008
Wordsworth mystery & supernatural series
Fiction
400 pages ; 18 cm.
9781840220711, 1840220716
271818416
Detective and mystery stories, English
Détectives Angleterre Romans, nouvelles, etc
England
Fiction
Holmes, Sherlock
Private investigators
Private investigators England Fiction

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3.76 
91 ratings
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10 reviews
2 years ago
Matthew
Sherlock Holmes detractors have occasionally criticised the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, apparently thinking that the solutions were sometimes easy enough that they hardly required a genius like Holmes to solve them. I imagine the proble…
5 years ago
Rob
A collection of 20 new short stories featuring Holmes and Watson. Each are well written and would fit well into the Holmes canon and would also make good source material for television adaptations. At 400 pages and with small print it did take me lon…
13 years ago
Philip
This collection is described by the editor as “… a new batch of twenty adventures … to fascinate and entertain you.” The recent appearances of several assemblages of Sherlockian tales constructed around one theme or another have tended to jade the p…
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