The Treasury of Sherlock Holmes: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #3

by Craig Janacek

Embark upon eight quests for buried treasure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson!
THE LOST LEGION. Holmes is still a university student without a definitive plan in life when he falls ill. He is sent to Derbyshire to recuperate, where he stumbles across a seemingly-abandoned mine of the incredibly rare mineral known as ‘Blue John.’ But strange rumors abound of terrors in the night, and when a man goes missing, Holmes brings it upon himself to investigate the mysteries of the mine. Will he unearth an outlandish secret stretching back over millennia?
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DOUBLE-EDGED HOARD. Holmes is summoned to Cambridge by Inspector Lestrade to assist with the murder of an eminent professor who had recently acquired a Viking treasure hoard. Before Holmes can arrive, the murderer strikes again. Holmes must race against time to prevent an ancient curse from claiming more victims.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DAWN DISCOVERY. A grieving widower hires Holmes to discover the reason for his wife’s demise. This commission takes Holmes and Watson to the remote reaches of Scotland, where a tiny island hides a decades-old secret. Only someone as astute as Sherlock Holmes could hope to unravel the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PIRATE’S CODE. A young lad has gone missing in Bristol and his tavern-keeper father calls upon Holmes to find him. Accompanied by Watson, Holmes discovers that the boy was following a strangely coded message found in the possessions of the recently deceased Captain George North. All evidence suggests that the captain might have preserved a clue to one of the greatest pirate treasures of all time. Can Holmes decipher the riddle and follow the signs to their perilous end, before time runs out for young Jim Eggleson?
THE ADVENTURE OF THE QUEEN’S PENDANT. A client calls upon Baker Street bearing a mysterious warning letter, claiming that his museum is at threat of being robbed. The following day, calamity befalls the museum… its prized possession, a pendant belonging to an ancient Mesopotamian queen, has been damaged during the night. Watson at his side, Holmes lays a trap to catch the thief, only to have his net capture the most unlikely suspect. Despite Holmes’ protestations to the contrary, will true love win out in the end?
THE HARROWING INTERMISSION. The entire world mourns that Holmes has perished in the Reichenbach Falls. But none grieve as deeply as Dr. Watson. To assuage his sorrow, Watson begins to write a series of letters to his deceased friend, in which he tells of the current news of London. Two individuals, both with an old connection to India, have been foully murdered. Watson begins to suspect that the Thuggee are taking their revenge for a theft of jewels sacred to Kali. Can Watson employ Holmes’ methods to solve this problem which came before the public?
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUNKEN INDIAMAN. Holmes was always averse to leaving London for any significant length of time. But when a client reports an unusual robbery of his London home, Holmes discovers a century-old connection to the disappearance of one of India’s greatest treasures. Can he solve an ancient cipher and locate the Peacock Throne before the thief?
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SILENT DRUM. Holmes is called to the coast of Devon to solve a mystery of legendary proportions. For the drum belonging to Sir Francis Drake has gone missing from Buckland Abbey, and with it, the mystical protection it affords the nation of England. Holmes is skeptical of the drum’s powers, but he and Watson are initially baffled at how it could have vanished from a locked room in the midst of a festive gala. While Holmes unconcernedly bowls upon the lawn, will the culprits go unpunished?
Fully annotated, these tales contain a cornucopia of scholarly insights which compare these newly unearthed cases by Dr. John H. Watson to the classic adventures from the Canon of Sherlock Holmes.

337 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2017

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.
For augmented content, connect with him online at: http://craigjanacek.wordpress.com.

Reviews

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This finely crafted collection contains eight pastiches, lots of additional notes and forewords. It is actually a compendium of two sets of stories. They are~
A) Treasure Trove Indeed!:
1. The Lost Legion;
2. The Adventure of the Pirate's Code;
3. The Adventure of the Queen's Pendant;
4. The Adventure of the Silent Drum.
B) Fortunes Made & Fortunes Lost:
5. The Adventure of the Double-edged Hoard;
6. The Adventure of the Dawn Discovery;
7. The Harrowing Intermission;
8. The Adventure of the Sunken Indiaman.
None of the mysteries are particularly complex. Instead, they heavily rely upon other works of Doyle and try to bring them into the ambit of the canon through these tales. However, the works succeed in providing us with a deliciously charming atmosphere. They are ably supported by historical information and an internal chronology for the canon, while trying to fill up the gaps.
Overall, I found this to be a very good collection of pastiches trying to remain true to the canon in terms of the spirit of the original tales.
Recommended.

[Sanjeev Chhabra · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best Sherlock Holmes pastiche so far. Has the real feel.