The Absentee Detective

by Mark Sohn

Four tales of Conspiracy, Connivance and Intrigue set in the World of Sherlock Holmes. From the best-selling author of 'Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders'

260 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2018

About the author

Pleased to meet you. I was born in Brighton in the County of Sussex, England in 1967. I've traveled the World, careered from job to job with no direction, been homeless and finally found my soulmate in 2008. Happily married to my Wife since 2009, we live near the English Channel.

I've always been a writer; it's something I can't explain-it's there, an urge to create that becomes overwhelming if ignored. My first novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders is available from Amazon; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Hol...

In between writing, I Blog; https://volcanocat.blogspot.co.uk/
https://sherlockholmesof221b.blogspot...

My hobbies include reading, music, conversation, people, cars (I used to ride Motorcycles), current affairs and I'm a member of the R.A.O.B.

Reviews

[Susan Knight · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here’s an original idea: Sherlock Holmes stories in which the great detective doesn’t feature. Mark Sohn has cleverly thought up four alternatives, all very different, though perhaps rather more bloody and action-packed than Conan Doyle’s efforts tend to be. The first has down-at-heel actors, playing Holmes and Watson, drawn into a fiendish plot that threatens the very future of Great Britain. In the second story, Watson has to do the business due to the absence of the detective. The third features author Mark Sohn himself, who discovers that that far from being fictional characters, Sherlock, Watson and Mycroft really existed, or at least did so in an alternative universe. The final story, The Tinseltown Detective, perhaps my favourite, is set in Los Angeles and features Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, who both lived there during the war, making all those Sherlock Holmes adventures for MGM. A highly entertaining quartet of stories by the author of Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders.