David Ruffle

Welcome back once more to the Stranger's Room. The fire is blazing so help yourself to a brandy, pull up a chair to the fire and enjoy these tales from established and new Holmesian writers. Encompassing as they do tradition, humor, and quirkiness, there is something for everyone. Enjoy! ...

Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. Or did she? Holmes and Watson, while in America find themselves face to face with Lizzie Borden when two fresh axe murders rock Fall River society. Is Lizzie to blame?...

Volume 2 includes more Sherlock Holmes and Watson tales collected by David Ruffle from writers around the world...

1915. Sherlock Holmes to Watson: "Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have." 1929. A small hospital somewhere in Dorset. An anteroom off a dimly lit corridor. It is night, and there is not even the smallest amount of light penetrating the...

A Holmes and Watson adventure featuring amorous women, Ukrainian bruisers, an English policeman whose wit is rather trying, Venetian churches, and the odd Tintoretto or two....

The year is 1903. Lyme Regis. The Royal Navy comes to town....

Who are the "men in the garden"? Was Chipping Norton really once the center of the universe? What part do dodgy knees have to play? Just who are Johnny Norfolk and Johnny Stevens? What is W.A.S.T.E.? What connects the Cotswolds, Venice, East Molesey and Lyme Regis? Why would anyone pay to see...

The year is 1898. Doctor Watson is once more in Lyme Regis to visit the lady in his life, Mrs. Beatrice Heidler. A gruesome death with echoes of one of Sherlock Holmes previous cases brings Holmes himself down to Dorset. In the company of an old friend, they encounter an old enemy with vengeance...

In 1936, an elderly Doctor Watson sits at his desk with a dictation machine and, over a two week period, recounts the significant moments in his life. The expected publication of his autobiography never materialized. But in 2017 the wax cylinders containing Watson's words appeared and have at...

The year is 1896. Doctor Watson is invited to the Dorsetshire coast by an old friend. To Watson's surprise he manages to persuade his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, to accompany him. This hitherto unknown tale of Watson's involves romancing, dancing, and occasional glasses of cider, but the...