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Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction

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Brett, Rathbone, Cushing, Howard, Livanov. Hobbs, Sir Arthur Conan Doy ...more

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Award-Winning author, Gretchen Altabef, publishes with MX, Sherlock Holmes Books.

FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY is Altabef’s smashing third novel in the Rachel Holmes series. Though murder mysteries, each is full of hope and the bonhomie of friendship. Holmes and Watson are called to Thomas Edison’s ‘Imagination Factory’ to solve the murder of a Vaudeville danseuse in the world’s first motion picture studio.

The first in the series is, THESE SCATTERED HOUSES, in Sherlock Holmes’s voice, it chronicles a unique conclusion to his ‘Great Hiatus’ travels. It was translated into Italian as LA CASA DEL MALE for Mondadori’s popular Sherlock Holmes Series.

In REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS, Holmes finds London awash in murders, anarchists threatening Paris, an ...more

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	Sherlock Holmes These Scattered Houses 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes: Further Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells Volume Two by Derrick Belanger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), C. Edward Davis (Editor and Author), Gretchen Altabef (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes - Remarkable Power of Stimulus 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steel True, Blade Straight 2022 Annual: The Belanger Books Journal of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-Inspired Stories, Poems and Scholarship by Derrick Belanger (Goodreads Author) (Editor and Author), Brian Belanger (Editor and Author), Bonnie MacBird (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mystery Magazine: October 2021 by Mystery Weekly Magazine, Kerry Carter (Editor), Michael Kelly 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sherlock Holmes solves an old family mystery. A client forsworn, a threatened town, and a Goliath of unimaginable proportions . . .
Gretchen Altabef has authored her first pastiche novel, “Sherlock Holmes: These Scattered Houses.” Publication Date/Book Release: 14 November 2019, MX Publishing, London.
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