THE HISTORIES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Craig Janacek

Return to the terror and excitement of the Victorian age in the company of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson. Throughout his long career, Holmes often encountered individuals whose misdeeds either seemed to resonate back from the distant past, or who entered the history books for various deeds. Comprising the collections ‘This Terrible Business’ and ‘Thrust & Parry,’ within are eight recently unearthed cases related by Dr Watson in the finest tradition and spirit of such classics as ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’ and ‘The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual.’

THIS TERRIBLE Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a great student of the history of crime, for he knew that there was nothing new under the sun. The lessons of the past shine brightly in these chronicles of some of Holmes’s most singular and terrible cases, all of which Dr Watson was forbidden from releasing during their lifetime. Within are the details of an injustice that brings Holmes back to Dartmoor, a ruse worthy of the finest of actors, a murder disguised as an apparent act of God, and a man bizarrely killed in five different ways. This collection includes the tales ‘The Adventure of the Signed Remains,’ ‘The Adventure of the Sensational Stratagem, ‘The Adventure of the Epic Wrath,’ and ‘The Adventure of the Five Deaths.’

THRUST & Mr. Sherlock Holmes was no stranger to working on behalf of certain illustrious clients whose exploits have graced the history books. He loved nothing more than a great contest of wits against a well-matched opponent, but was equally willing to engage in a more rough-and-tumble struggle when such physical work was called for. Within are the details of a terrible death with political implications in rebellious Ireland, an ancient riddle leading to a mythical treasure, a quest to locate a kidnapped queen, and Holmes’s final bout in the boxing ring. This collection includes the tales ‘The Adventure of the Dark Waters,’ ‘The Adventure of the Loring Riddle,’ ‘The Adventure of the Imprisoned Monarch,’ and ‘The Adventure of the Hallowed Ring.'

403 pages, Paperback

Published April 29, 2022

About the author

In the year 1998 CRAIG JANACEK took his degree of Doctor of Medicine of Vanderbilt University, and proceeded to Stanford to go through the training prescribed for pediatricians in practice. Having completed his studies there, he was duly attached to the University of California, San Francisco as Associate Professor. The author of over seventy medical monographs upon a variety of obscure lesions, his travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of his fictional works. To date, these have been published primarily in electronic format, including two non-Holmes novels (The Oxford Deception & The Anger of Achilles Peterson), the trio of holiday adventures collected as The Midwinter Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, the short trilogy The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes, a trio of adventures collected as The First of Criminals, and a Watsonian novel entitled The Isle of Devils. His current project is a trio of works entitled A Holmesian Treasure Trove. His first in-press work (The Adventure of the Fateful Malady) was published in the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part One (October 2015), and a second (The Adventure of the Double-Edged Hoard) was included in the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, 2016 Annual (May 2016). Craig Janacek is a nom-de-plume.
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