The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes

The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes

In this compelling collection of seven stories, the young Stamford joins Sherlock Holmes, the worldâ€™s first consulting detective to untangle a series of mysterious crimes.

The Record of the Tarleton Murders

The body of a woman in her late thirties is found in Seven Dials with a serene smile on her face.

The Honourable Clive Moreton-Ashbee is found dead in his family home in Oxfordshire also wearing a chillingly peaceful smile.

In light of these murders, Sherlock and Stamford travel to Sibberton Hall to find the connection between the fatalities but with Pennington, Sherlockâ€™s biggest rival from the past, lost on an expedition to the Yucatan, this case will be no ordinary one.
Tension arises when another is found dead by the hearth. Will Holmes be able to solve these mysterious murders?

The Case of Vamberry, the Wine Merchant

Young Stamford invites Holmes to a dinner at his parentsâ€™ house where the Kentish Brewersâ€™ Association, of which his father is President, is honouring a guest from France who happens to be a chemist.

Holmes suspects that one of the guests, Josiah Vamberry, a man with the largest store of top-class claret in the whole of England, is in a bad financial situation.
Following an awful argument between Mr Stamford and Mr Vamberry, the latter is found with his throat cut and Mr Stamford arrested. Holmes is desperate to save his friendâ€™s father.

Mr Stamford is among the several investors whose finances took a severe knock with the failing of the chateaux but would financial ruin prompt him to kill?

Holmes sets out to prove the innocence of his friendâ€™s father and a gripping case
unfolds.

The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman

After an absence from the Reading Room of the British Museum, Holmes returns to find his usual place occupied by a strange Germanic man with grizzled hair.

Holmesâ€™ curiosity is aroused when the man lets out a deep-throated grunt, says that no one can frighten him and fiercely crumples a piece of paper in his hands.

When an old Russian woman empties the wastepaper baskets, the German leaves behind a piece of paper containing a strange symbol and beneath this symbol the letters ARX are written.

Can Holmes solve this seemingly impossible and perplexing case?

The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch

Determined to make his own way in the world, Sherlock places a discreet advertisement in several newspapers offering his services as the worldâ€™s first consulting detective.

A young woman soon shows up at Montague Street asking for his help to find her crippled fiancÃ©e who, all of a sudden, disappeared from her life. As Holmes investigates he finds a mysterious laboratory, a crutch left behind, a large amount of strangely shaped ash and a distinct burning smell.

Can Holmes work out if this is a murder, suicide or death by misadventure?

Other stories include:
Mrs Farintosh and an Opal Tiara
Matilda Briggs and the Giant Rat of Sumatra
A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot

'A treat for any Holmes fan.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Cold Kill'.

Ian Charnock is an art historian, an authority on the work of El Greece and an international classic car rally driver. He also the author of Watsonâ€™s Last Case.

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Country USA
Manufacturer Lume Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-11-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lume Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-11-23
Format	Kindle eBook

The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes

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