When Sherlock Holmes is consulted by an Infantry Captain, who, on his return from the war in Afghanistan, is ignored and shunned by friends and acquaintances in his home village—where he has been liked and respected all his life—a tale of betrayal and murder begins to unfold. Such is the scenario for 'The Adventure of the Willow Pool', the centrepiece of this, the fourth collection of The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes.
You are invited to follow Holmes in this new adventure, and those of 'The Adventure of the Von Strauffhausen Papers', 'The North Walk Mystery', and 'The Adventure of the Yellow Glove'.
In the 1980s I published five Sherlock Holmes short stories in individual booklets: The Purple Hand, The Unseen Traveller, The Zodiac Plate, The Secret of Shoreswood Hall and The Christmas Visitor. In the 1990s, these stories were collected, with the addition of one new story, The Green Umbrella, as the first two volumes of The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Two further volumes of The Chronicles followed, containing a further eight stories. In 2014 and 2016, two volumes of The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes were published, containing a mixture of new stories and older stories which had appeared over the years in magazines, anthologies etc. Now, forthcoming in December 2016, is my first Sherlock Holmes novel, The Riddle of Foxwood Grange.