The Mystery Surrounding Watson's Lost Dispatch Box: A Juan and Viejo Mystery

by Gary Lovisi

Overview

When young Joseph Adler enters a small Dorchester bookstore to sell a rare old copy of The Strand Magazine - within its pages is discovered what appears to be a sheet torn from the diary of Sherlock Holmes' friend, Doctor Watson. The implications are incredible. When Adler is found dead, it is up to bookstore owner Thomas Jones, joined by his young friend, Juan Marcano, to search for clues and solve the murder in the style of their hero, Sherlock Holmes. But the older man, nicknamed Viejo, by the cocky younger Juan, have taken on more than they can handle, as they deal with tough cops and tougher drug dealers to solve the case. The discovery of an old tin dispatch box that apparently belonged to Watson leads to a wild case full of mystery, murder and revenge. It is a rousing tale in the best tradition of the Great Detective with a new team of amateur sleuths, in a novel that captures the spirit of Doyle's classic Holmes stories in a modern setting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780926421
Publisher:	Andrews UK
Publication date:	06/25/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	961 KB

About the Author

Gary Lovisi is a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award nominated author for the Best Short Story of the year for his Sherlock Holmes pastiche, "The Adventure of the Missing Detective". He is a Holmes fan, collector, and writes various articles and short stories of, and about, The Great Detective - some of which have been collected into the books The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ramble House) and the novel, Sherlock Holmes: The Baron's Revenge (Airship 27). He is the editor of Paperback Parade and Hardboiled magazines, and of the recent Sherlock Holmes anthology, The Great Detective: His Further Adventures (Wildside Press).