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Sherlock Holmes: Strange Events
Now you see them, now you don’t … Where is the missing mother? And the omnibus with nine occupants? In Strange Events, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson return in two bizarre and chilling tales by the ingenious Lyn McConchie.
How can an omnibus with eight passengers and a driver simply vanish into thin air? The newspapers are full of speculation, and the police are clueless. Maurice Jepson’s wife Thelma was on the missing omnibus, and in desperation, he turns to Holmes and Watson. Their investigations lead them from the omnibus’s last route into unsavory gambling hells, where all is not as it seems. And when the body of one of the passengers is discovered in a vacant plot of land, the race is on to save the others!
Mrs. Martha Bewden left for a holiday, placing her legal affairs in the hands of her elder daughter, Heather. But two months have passed without a letter or any word, and her younger daughter Dorothy is growing concerned. Where is her mother? And why hasn’t she written or returned home? Holmes and Watson’s search for the missing woman carries them to the quaint villages of Cornwall and the bleak wilds of Dartmoor, where danger and horror await!
How can an omnibus with eight passengers and a driver simply vanish into thin air? The newspapers are full of speculation, and the police are clueless. Maurice Jepson’s wife Thelma was on the missing omnibus, and in desperation, he turns to Holmes and Watson. Their investigations lead them from the omnibus’s last route into unsavory gambling hells, where all is not as it seems. And when the body of one of the passengers is discovered in a vacant plot of land, the race is on to save the others!
Mrs. Martha Bewden left for a holiday, placing her legal affairs in the hands of her elder daughter, Heather. But two months have passed without a letter or any word, and her younger daughter Dorothy is growing concerned. Where is her mother? And why hasn’t she written or returned home? Holmes and Watson’s search for the missing woman carries them to the quaint villages of Cornwall and the bleak wilds of Dartmoor, where danger and horror await!
232 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2018
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May 24, 2018
The sample was so good I actually bought this book. I have so much reading to do I at first only finished the first story in this wonderful two story set. I have to say that the Omnibus story is perhaps the most compelling Holmes pastiche I've come across in some time. I have read a barrel full. I try to finish all but many just bog down. I almost read this one in one sitting. It is great. I am not one to worry about chronology. I just enjoyed this.
I read the second novella in the book also almost in one reading. Had to cut firewood, but I could not put Misplaced Mother down. I actually stopped reading some other books just to finish this one. McCochie's characters are realistic in both novellas. I loved the not-such-a-bad-guy loanshark in Omnibus and a hated the villain in Mother. McConchie's Holmes in reminiscent of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch in the steady logic procedure he uses to sort out this problem. Not only are you kept on the edge of your seat but you do keep wondering who the bad guy(s) are/is and if there are/is (a) bad guy(s).
I read the second novella in the book also almost in one reading. Had to cut firewood, but I could not put Misplaced Mother down. I actually stopped reading some other books just to finish this one. McCochie's characters are realistic in both novellas. I loved the not-such-a-bad-guy loanshark in Omnibus and a hated the villain in Mother. McConchie's Holmes in reminiscent of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch in the steady logic procedure he uses to sort out this problem. Not only are you kept on the edge of your seat but you do keep wondering who the bad guy(s) are/is and if there are/is (a) bad guy(s).
April 16, 2018
Fine, Long, Satisfactory Holmesian Tales
Lyn McConchie excels in this book. In the spirit of Repeat Business, Beastly Mysteries and others, she produces a couple of rather fine tales. Taking her own fine time about it, she weaves tales of intricate quality, good logic, camaraderie and sticking close to the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first case, The Case of a Vanishing Omnibus, is a great tale encompassing the pealing of layers of how, where, who and why the crime was committed, with a workmanship-like quality of writing of each aspect.
The second, The Case of the Misplaced Mother, is a missing person mystery, with small part coming together to trace the footsteps of a missing person, with Holmes and Watson piecing together subtle clues together, unraveling the entire mystery in a satisfactory denouement.
Also, as an aside, love the little shout-outs to previous cases.
Lyn McConchie excels in this book. In the spirit of Repeat Business, Beastly Mysteries and others, she produces a couple of rather fine tales. Taking her own fine time about it, she weaves tales of intricate quality, good logic, camaraderie and sticking close to the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first case, The Case of a Vanishing Omnibus, is a great tale encompassing the pealing of layers of how, where, who and why the crime was committed, with a workmanship-like quality of writing of each aspect.
The second, The Case of the Misplaced Mother, is a missing person mystery, with small part coming together to trace the footsteps of a missing person, with Holmes and Watson piecing together subtle clues together, unraveling the entire mystery in a satisfactory denouement.
Also, as an aside, love the little shout-outs to previous cases.
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