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Featured Book

Book cover ofHolmes Volume 1
  • Title: HOLMES VOLUME 1
  • Author: Melvyn SMALL
  • Publisher: Sixth Element Publishing
  • Published: 2018
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Ref: 12781

About The Book

A UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback originally published by Sixth Element Publishing in 2015.  This is a later 2018 printing.  Unread.

Six short stories inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.

SYNOPSIS:  “HOLMES.  ENIGMA, DETECTIVE, BORO LAD.

What if Sherlock Holmes, with his dry wit and natural predilection for data, deduction and logic, had been born on Teesside and lived in present-day Middlesbrough?

This smart-arse Boro lad hides his talents under a bushel of misdirection, self-deprecation and good old Teesside sarcasm, served up with some rather coarse language.

With the assistance of his associate, Doctor John Watson, a psychologist he met during some court-ordered counselling sessions, Holmes wends his way through a string of adventures, baffling and entertaining as he goes, with many a three-pint problem solved over his favourite libation, a pint of Engineer’s Thumb in the Twisted Lip, before he staggers back to Flat 1B, 22 Baker Street, Middlesbrough.”

PACKED WEIGHT 380GMS.  IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH

 

 

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    (To read the full review please visit our blog)
    August 2016

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