Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Iii

by David B. Beckwith

Overview

James Innes Watson, the great-great-grandson of Dr. John H. Watson, has inherited all the manuscripts of his forebear. These include stories that, for whatever reason, Watson never came to publish. In this collection, The Case of Ailsa Craig, Holmes is summoned by an old university friend to a bleak island off the coast of Scotland. A lighthouse keeper has disappeared in apparent supernatural circumstances. The Amateur Cracksman, Scotland Yard approaches Holmes regarding a high society cracksman. It is only when Mycroft Holmes enters the investigation with a robbery of radio inventor Marconi that the case is solved. Sherlock Holmes in Cumbria, Holmes and Watson travel to the English Lake District to solve a murder case on the mountains. A second murder on the peak of one of Englands highest mountains, and then a theft from a family from Holmess past make up this north-country case.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543405170
Publisher:	Xlibris AU
Publication date:	12/04/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	375 KB

About the Author

David B. Beckwith was born in Cumbria, U.K. His family emigrated to Western Australia in 1969 bringing him with them. One story in this book contains two cases of Sherlock Holmes that are set in the district of his birth. David now lives in a rural region bordering the city of Perth the capital of Western Australia where, in his retirement from the computer industry, he and his wife enjoy an envious lifestyle save for the threat of bush fires! This is his third book of Holmes tales.