SEEN & OBSERVED: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Craig Janacek

Return to the grandeur of the Victorian age in the company of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson. Holmes was often reluctant to allow Watson to chronicle publically some of his most sensitive cases. In such circumstances, Dr Watson’s first literary editor was occasionally permitted to publish the events as fictions with all mention of Holmes involvement removed. Within are four recently unearthed cases that reveal the secret sorrows behind some of those tales. Dr Watson relates all four adventures in the finest tradition and spirit of such classics as ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’ and ‘The Problem of Thor Bridge.’ THE ADVENTURE OF THE TRAGIC ACT. August 1881. An actor named Henry Latour has died while rehearsing the lead role in the cursed Scottish Play. Where Inspector Lestrade merely sees a tragic accident, Sherlock Holmes suspects a more sinister act. Learning that Latour had been previously involved in the unfortunate on-stage death of a fellow actor in Paris, Holmes and Watson race to prevent another yet tragedy from playing itself out. THE PROBLEM OF THE BLACK EYE. June 1895. Dr Aloysius Lana, doctor of Bishop’s Crossing, has been murdered in his home. Inspector Lestrade has arrested Mr. Arthur Morton, brother of Dr Lana’s former fiancée for the crime. All evidence is against Morton. However, one lone item – a green eye-patch – cannot be explained. Upon such a slim clue rests the thread that Sherlock Holmes will utilize to unravel the entire scene, and bring light to what really transpired that night. THE MANNERING TOWERS MYSTERY. October 1897. A solicitor comes to Baker Street with a troubling story of a man he believes was falsely convicted of murder. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must travel to Wiltshire to investigate these claims. Did a passing tramp kill Lord Mannering during a bungled robbery? Or did Lady Mannering murder her husband and pass the blame? As the body count piles up, will Holmes finally see justice served? THE ADVENTURE OF THE TWELFTH HOUR. September 1907. Sherlock Holmes is content in his retirement upon the South Downs. But when a man dies under mysterious circumstances at a nearby inn, the visiting Dr Watson induces his friend to look into the matter. Holmes finds a curious cast of visitors, and begins to suspect that there is a common link to the Far East. However, it is only when he locates the secret journal of the dead man that Holmes begins to understand how an old tragedy can ripple out to the present. 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.

259 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 27, 2020

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

[HAROLD FRANK PARKER]

Janacek does one of the best jobs of creating the Conan Doyle aura. His stories go within the Sherlock Holmes dossier and similar to others Jr jumps around in the timeline. The story on corpora ing the Boxer Rebellion is perhaps the best POF this book, but the one of the travels prisoner is close behind. Inventive and enjoyable.

[Christa Saccullo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok

Not the best ones. Stories were a bit slow. I enjoyed the dialogue between Holmes and Watson. Otherwise ok....
Christa

[DEREK POLLAK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sherlock

Just as good if not better than sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a story teller with informative footnotes if you have forgotten history