Sherlock Holmes Never Dies: Collection Three

by Craig Stephen Copland

Overview

Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters four new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with long-suffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again. Blood coats the street of Victorian England, but no evidence is clear and no suspect cleared of guilt. As to be expected, evil genius-the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty soon reappears. The great detective must thwart his diabolical machinations, but even Holmes is practically brought to his knees by shocking new discoveries only he can understand. Despite Moriarty's conniving, Sherlock will use the science of deduction to unravel mysteries of theft, abduction, political intrigue, and murder. Female characters take much deserved center stage in these original new stories, no longer willing to play the part of hapless victim or jealous wife. Meanwhile, Holmes and Watson travel the globe in search of justice. No guilty party is safe, no matter the distance, from the all-knowing eye of the world's best detective. This set includes the well-received new stories, The Engineer's Mom, The Notable Bachelorette, The Beryl Anarchists, and The Coiffured Bitches. All of them are inspired by and tributes to the parallel stories in the original Canon of Sherlock Holmes. SAVE 50% WHEN YOU BY THE COLLECTION

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781973884897
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/21/2017
Series:	Sherlock Holmes Never Dies , #3
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

It's elementary, my dear reader. What else, after fifty years of enjoying the stories of Sherlock Holmes, is a recently retired gentleman to do with his time but write more stories about the world's most beloved detective?

Craig Stephen Copland confesses that he discovered Sherlock Holmes when, some time in the muddled early 1960s he pinched his older brother's copy of the immortal stories and was forever afterward thoroughly hooked. He is very grateful to his high school English teachers in Toronto who inculcated in him a love of literature and writing, and even inspired him to be an English major at the University of Toronto. There he was blessed to sit at the feet of both Northrup Frye and Marshall McLuhan, and other great literary professors, who led him to believe that he was called to be a high school English teacher.

It was his good fortune to come to his pecuniary senses, abandon that goal and pursue a varied professional career that took him to over one hundred countries and endless adventures. He considers himself to have been and to continue to be one of the luckiest men on God's good earth.

A few years back he took a step in the direction of Sherlockian studies and joined the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada--also known as the Toronto Bootmakers. In May of 2014 this esteemed group of scholars announced a contest for the writing of a new Sherlock Holmes mystery. Although he had never tried his hand at fiction before, Craig entered and was pleasantly surprised to be selected as one of the winners. Having enjoyed the experience he decided to write more of the same, and is now on a mission to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery that is related to and inspired by each of the sixty stories in the original Canon.

He currently lives and writes in Toronto, New York, and the Okanagan Valley and looks forward to finally settling down when he turns ninety.