A PROMPT AND READY TRAVELLER: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Craig Janacek

Embark on a series of journeys with Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson. Although Holmes was at his best amongst the ghostly gas lamps and swirling yellow fog of London’s streets, he was always willing to venture forth to strange locales whenever a sufficiently-interesting adventure called. Within are four recently-unearthed cases which induced Holmes to set forth to the Continent, the Colonies, and even the Americas. All four adventures are told by Dr Watson in the finest tradition and spirit of such classics as ‘The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.’ THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING MANA. June, 1887. London is awash in festivities for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, but there is no rest for Sherlock Holmes when both Gregson and Lestrade come calling with cases beyond their depths. A remarkable burglar and peculiar killer appears to be running loose in London, but a visit to the visiting royal party of the Kingdom of Hawai’i and a spiritual visit to those far-away isles brings a light to the matter. Can Holmes prevent a gang of vicious thugs from defiling Hawai’i’s past and stealing its future? THE ADVENTURE OF THE BOULEVARD ASSASSIN. October, 1894. Sherlock Holmes is beckoned to Paris, where chaos rules the streets. No man is safe from the random killings of the Boulevard Assassin. Only Holmes can begin to see a method in the madness and an ancient link between the victims. If unchecked, a mighty shadow may once more emerge to set Europe shaking. But it is one thing to discern the assassin’s twisted motives and another thing entirely to stop him from carrying out his desperate deeds. Only Holmes can possibly stop Huret in time. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECRET TOMB. February, 1895. At the behest of the Pope himself, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to Rome to inquire into the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca. But a far more insidious plot is unearthed when the local attaché beseeches Holmes to investigate the mysterious vanishing of a prominent English archeologist. Did Mr. Kennedy run off with another woman? Or is the answer much graver? Can Holmes prevent a cunning murderer from getting away scot-free? THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEAD MAN’S NOTE. January, 1904. Sherlock Holmes has finally decided to retire from active consulting. But he accedes to the wishes of his friend, Dr Watson, and agrees to take a final voyage to the isle of Bermuda. But like a stormy petrel, trouble follows. A man is killed at the Hamilton Princess Hotel, and the only clue is a blank letter written to a long dead man. Only Holmes will be able to see through the lies and determine what secrets the hotel holds. Fully annotated, this edition contains a cornucopia of scholarly insights which compare these newly unearthed tales by Dr John H. Watson to the classic adventures from the Canon of Sherlock Holmes.

175 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2019

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

[LAWRENCE GILSDORF · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Tales ... totally entertaining

These tales are full of imagination and cleverness that Mr.Janacek is so skilled. My favorite involves Sherlock's adventure in Rome, Italy. But they are all first rate.

[P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nicely written, neither Holmes nor Watson have any of those tics that drive a reader away, however the four or five [there isn't a table of contents] stories generally lacked believability.