Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front

by Val Andrews

Overview

What have Stonehenge, puppets, King Charles I, and characters from an Alexander Dumas story got in common? The answer is contained within the carefully crafted Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front. The plot, as is usually the case with anything written by Val Andrews, is imaginative and involves the world of entertainment.

It is 1916 and the allies are losing the Great War. It has been a terrible two years. Mycroft Holmes enlists the assistance of his brother Sherlock, along with an eager Dr. Watson, to investigate how military secrets are being passed to the enemy.

In the guise of concert performers for the troops, Holmes and Watson are sent to Salisbury Plain prior to being sent over to the Western Front. However, very soon they discover just how coded messages are being sent to the Germans. A trap is set and the culprits caught, although the chief spy escapes ... but not for long as Holmes is able to track them down to a safe house where they are arrested.

For the final part of the adventure our heroes travel to France to infiltrate the spy ring. Here they unearth a secret tunnel which may well alter the whole course of the war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780947533878
Publisher:	Breese Books, Limited
Publication date:	09/06/2023
Series:	Breese Books Sherlock Holmes Collection
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.46(w) x 8.51(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

During his life Val Andrews wrote over thirty new Sherlock Holmes adventures and was always at his best when writing about the world of entertainment, in which he worked as a writer and performer for fifty years. From a theatrical background, he had been in his time a professional vaudeville artiste, ventriloquist, magician and scriptwriter to Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill and other comedy legends of stage and television. He could even count among his friends the likes of Orson Welles.Val Andrews was born in Hove near Brighton on the 15th February 1926 only a few hours after Valentine's Day and hence his Christian name. He was the son of an architect and indeed it was his father who introduced him to magic, a fascination that was to last a lifetime and was to result many biographies on the great magicians and numerous writings on magic in general.He died from a heart attack on the 12th October 2006 and will be missed, but at least his name will live on through his books that continue to thrill old and new murder mystery enthusiasts alike.