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SHERLOCK AND BARACK. This is NOT a New Sherlock Holmes Mystery. It is a research paper contributing to the amateur academic discipline known as Sherlockian studies. Also known as The Great Game. If the reader are not familiar with this discipline then you could start by googling "(Sherlock) The Great Game" and then indulge your imagination, employ skills of scientific deduction, and enjoy yourself. The particular study inquires into the questions - Why did Barack Obama win in November 2012? Why did Mitt Romney lose? Pundits and political scientists have offered countless reasons. This study...

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THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S MOM: A brilliant young Cambridge University engineer is carrying out secret research for the Admiralty. It will lead to the building of the world's most powerful battleship, The Dreadnaught. His adventuress mother is kidnapped and having been spurned by Scotland Yard he seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes. Was she taken by German spies, or an underhanded student, or by someone else? Whoever it was is prepared to commit cold-blooded murder to get what they want.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE BELT BUCKLE: AN AMERICAN ARTIST WAS MURDERED AND THE CROWN JEWELS MAY BE AT RISK. A young street urchin, one of the Baker Street Irregulars, discovers a man's belt and buckle under a bush in Hyde Park. He brings it to Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a reward. The buckle is unique and stunning, gleaming turquoise stones set in exquisitely carved silver; a masterpiece from the native American west. A body of an American Indian is found in a hotel room in Mayfair. Scotland Yard seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes in solving the murder.

Airplanes can be murder weapons. Passengers who go up alive may come down dead. During the 1920s, there was an enormous prize for the first person to fly from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York. Several pilots perished pursuing it. But the true prize, the one worth millions for years to come, was winning the US Government contract to deliver air mail. Before, during and after Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight, several bodies turn up in Dr. Tabitha’s lab. All are connected in some way to the business of airplanes and the aeronautical industry. Doc and Sarge, with the aid of two ...

Dushanka, a beautiful young Moslem girl has no choice. Either she must act or her mother and sisters will be raped and her little brother murdered. That's what happens to people living in war zones. Just a few years earlier the beautiful ancient city of Sarajevo was the site of the Winter Olympics. People from all parts of firmer Yugoslavia came together to build the facilities. The Games were a triumph of international goodwill, sport, and joyful celebration. Dushanka grew up in that idyllic setting. And then it ended. This peaceful corner of Europe entered the worst period of war and ...

Reader: Do you remember Lady Frances Carfax from my account of her two years ago? Do you recall how she was very nearly murdered by being buried alive? I thought you might. She’s back. She returned to 221B Baker Street a few weeks back asking for help from Sherlock Holmes. She acknowledged that years earlier she gave birth to a love child. That child has now been kidnapped and a ransom demand has been received. If not paid, the child, who is now a young woman, will suffer the same fate and Lady Carfax almost did two years ago. She will be buried alive. Holmes and I set off to Europe to ...

Kill a man because of his hat? Ridiculous. But it happened. In New York City. Twice. The Big Apple saw countless absurd events during the 1920s. The most moronic took place in September 1922, when gangs of young men--and a few women—roamed the streets of the financial district and the better-off neighborhoods, and knocked the straw hats off those who dared to wear them after the 15th of the month. Many straw-hatters were bullied. Some were assaulted. A few were beaten. And two were murdered. All because of their hats. That’s what the police said. Beaten to death by anonymous thugs. Or ...

Someone murdered a university student. They found him lying in his bed. Dead. His head smashed by a cricket bat. The local police arrest another student, claiming it was a case of jealous rage over the affections of a beautiful girl. The arrested student’s formidable mother demands Sherlock Holmes prove her son’s innocence. Holmes investigates and deduces that several people had reason to commit murder. At least one want top kill him too. This new mystery is a tribute to the original Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier. Like that story, it is told directly by ...

The Spy Gate Liars “Your friend, Monsieur Sherlock Holmes is near death. Come at once.” Having received this telegram, Watson rushes to eastern France, where Holmes is investigating the serial murders of former German army officers. The events that led to this murder mystery began in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. But the evil that was done back then has continued until the present day … and vengeance will be had. All the victims were killed in the same way, a dagger through the eye socket. Another likely victim has moved to England, so we rush to find him before the assassin does. ...

“Watson, wake up. We have a visitor.”,/ I felt the firm but friendly hand of Sherlock Holmes on my shoulder, forcing me awake. I pulled on my dressing gown and stumbled into the front room of 221B Baker Street. A young and exceptionally beautiful woman sat the sofa. “I have come to see you, Mr. Holmes, because the members of my family are conspiring to murder me.” “Are they now?” said Holmes. “And why would they want to do that?” “Because I am young, beautiful and brilliant; because I control the family estate following the recent death of my father; and because I utterly ...

“Holmes, this is more dangerous than anything Moriarty could have imagined “Precisely,” said Holmes. This new adventure began with a single counterfeit £100 note. Scotland Yard demanded that Sherlock Holmes take the case. Soon, there were many more counterfeit notes, coming back to England from all corners of the Empire. Then a man’s dead body appeared in a church graveyard, with counterfeit notes in his pocket. The next day, Holmes and Watson are off to Europe in search of a dangerous conspiracy who are threatening the security of the British Empire. Holmes will need help if he is...

Six students receive death threats. For a lark over the summer, they wrote a satirical book. It made fun of the crimes and foibles of a fictional baron. Some real baron somewhere does not think it’s funny. They got too much of his story right. And now he is out to kill them. They appeal to Sherlock Holmes. But he is too busy with his bees, and so he sends Dr. Watson. What Watson discovers is terrifying. Soon he, Holmes and the students are in a race against time to unmask the villain and take him down before more lives are destroyed. This New Sherlock Holmes Mystery is the 55th in the ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORESS'S TALE. A GIRLS' SCHOOL HOCKEY TEAM VANISHES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. CAN SHERLOCK HOLMES FIND THEM IN TIME? The senior field hockey team from an elite girls’ school goes to Dover for a beach holiday … and disappears. Have they been abducted into White Slavery? Did they run off to Paris? Are they being held for ransom? Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, the Prioress of the school, and a new gang of Irregulars must find them before something terrible happens. A tribute to The Adventure of the Priory School in The Canon. “A ...

When a man’s beautiful, beloved daughter dies, A part of his soul dies with her. When that daughter dies at the hands of a murderer, That man’s mind is filled with a burning fire for justice, for revenge. When the local police shrug off the murder as a random robbery gone wrong, When the local populace gossip about the daughter being a victim of an evil vampire, That man turns to Sherlock Holmes. On a miserable morning in June of 1898, the body of Elizabeth Cleaves-Bedford was discovered in the corner of the family orchard. Her throat had been punctured and her body entirely drained of ...

“I have heard it in the wind," said the prophet. "Someone will die. Murdered. Soon. Only you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, can stop it.” The man who uttered these words had forced his way up the stairs and into 221B Baker Street. At first, I thought he was merely mad. He was dirty, disheveled and only somewhat coherent. Yet there was in his eyes a burning intelligence, a passion, and an unholy fear. “Who is going to die?” asked Holmes. “That has not been revealed to me. All I know is that you, Sherlock Holmes, must save that life.” Holmes was about to ask more questions when the ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE TREACHEROUS TRUST. A beautiful, brilliant young woman attracts the attention of a wealthy, older gentleman. He insist that she join the board of directors of a popular charity, run by his son. A meeting of the directors is held at the family estate. She attends and quarrels with the son. An hour later, she falls off the roof terrace. Nobody can believe that her death is anything but a tragic accident. Nobody, that is, except her sister, Miss Violet Westbury. A year earlier, Violet's fiancé, Cadogan West, was murdered and his body dumped on top of a railway carriage. ...

A twelve-year-old boy witnessed a murder. But nobody believed him. Except Sherlock Holmes. Holmes quickly deduces that the boy was intricately connected to the victim and knows more than he is letting on. Eventually, Holmes solves the case in his mind ... and does nothing. Everybody was fooled. So, it's an ideal story for April Fools' Day. The short story was originally published as part of an MX Books Collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories. But it is available to you on its own at a discount price. Pre-order now and enjoy your copy on April 1. Included with this story is a free bonus ...

The Adventure of the Beryl Anarchists. Did the sons betray their father? Did they steal the confidential records of the clients of his bank? Did they give those records to a gang of miscreants who will use them for blackmail? The banker begs Holmes to investigate. Was it really his sons? Or maybe his daughter? Or maybe her boyfriend? Or maybe the voluptuous maid? The sons and the Anarchists have something in common. They are all besotted with the latest craze — riding motorcycles. Holmes and I make inquiries. And things get worse. A young girl is murdered. We give chase to the villains ...

The Silver Horse, Braised. Dead jockeys can’t win horse races. What happens when the favored jockey is found dead at Epsom Downs? Sherlock Holmes can see he was murdered. News of the suspicious death is splashed all over the newspapers. Rumors of threats, bribes and doping abound. Scotland Yard is at a loss. The Horserace of the Century will match the best steeds in Great Britain against those of the United States. Millions are wagered. Holmes and Watson go to Epsom and get to work, assisted by a colorful cast of Runyanesque characters from New York. He fails to apprehend the murderers. ...