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After the East Wind Blows: WWI and Roaring Twenties Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #3
Sherlock Holmes: After the East Wind Blows Part III: When The Storm Has Cleared 1921-1928
"There's an east wind coming, Watson."
"I think not, Holmes. It is very warm."
"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared."
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
August 2nd, 1914
"His Last Bow"
On August 4th, 1914, England declared war against Germany, after the latter's invasion of Belgium earlier that day. Just days before that, Germany had declared war on Russia and France and Luxembourg. Soon much of the world was dragged in. Europe was a tinderbox, and the fuse was lit. To anyone living in those times, it must have seemed that the world had suddenly gone mad. But in fact, the events leading to The Great War and the deaths of millions had been in the making for decades, as the European nations scrambled to outdo one another around the world in terms of escalating military might and colonial expansion, while strangling themselves with convoluted treaties and intermarried royal families.
Although a dozen other Canonical Holmes adventures would be published after "His Last Bow", that story, covering just a few minutes on the evening of August 2nd, 1914 - "the most terrible August in the history of the world" - was chronologically the last Canonical adventure, . But even though that narrative - included in this collection - relates what Holmes and Watson were doing at the very beginning of the War, there is much more to tell . . . .
Contained in this collection are 36 Canonical adventures in three companion volumes by many of today's best Sherlockian pasticheurs, relating some of Holmes and Watson's wartime adventures, and then telling us what happened afterwards during those years immediately following the Armistice, and on through the 1920's.
Join Holmes and Watson as the thunderous Guns of War begin to fire, through the nightmarish years that followed, and then through the other side when the storm has cleared . . . .
The game is afoot!
Part III: When The Storm Has Cleared (1921-1928)
The Adventure of the Silver Screen – Gordon Linzner
The King of Devil’s Horn Prison – Derrick Belanger
Lights! Camera! Murder! – Sonia Fetherston
The Lonely Cavalier – Tim Gambrell
The West Egg Affair – Joseph S. Walker
The Curious Case of President Harding – John Lawrence
The Odd Event – Kevin Thornton
The Adventure of the Second Body – Stephen Herczeg
The Case of the Troubled Policeman – Daniel D. Victor
The Unpleasant Affair in Clipstone Street – David Marcum
"I think not, Holmes. It is very warm."
"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared."
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
August 2nd, 1914
"His Last Bow"
On August 4th, 1914, England declared war against Germany, after the latter's invasion of Belgium earlier that day. Just days before that, Germany had declared war on Russia and France and Luxembourg. Soon much of the world was dragged in. Europe was a tinderbox, and the fuse was lit. To anyone living in those times, it must have seemed that the world had suddenly gone mad. But in fact, the events leading to The Great War and the deaths of millions had been in the making for decades, as the European nations scrambled to outdo one another around the world in terms of escalating military might and colonial expansion, while strangling themselves with convoluted treaties and intermarried royal families.
Although a dozen other Canonical Holmes adventures would be published after "His Last Bow", that story, covering just a few minutes on the evening of August 2nd, 1914 - "the most terrible August in the history of the world" - was chronologically the last Canonical adventure, . But even though that narrative - included in this collection - relates what Holmes and Watson were doing at the very beginning of the War, there is much more to tell . . . .
Contained in this collection are 36 Canonical adventures in three companion volumes by many of today's best Sherlockian pasticheurs, relating some of Holmes and Watson's wartime adventures, and then telling us what happened afterwards during those years immediately following the Armistice, and on through the 1920's.
Join Holmes and Watson as the thunderous Guns of War begin to fire, through the nightmarish years that followed, and then through the other side when the storm has cleared . . . .
The game is afoot!
Part III: When The Storm Has Cleared (1921-1928)
The Adventure of the Silver Screen – Gordon Linzner
The King of Devil’s Horn Prison – Derrick Belanger
Lights! Camera! Murder! – Sonia Fetherston
The Lonely Cavalier – Tim Gambrell
The West Egg Affair – Joseph S. Walker
The Curious Case of President Harding – John Lawrence
The Odd Event – Kevin Thornton
The Adventure of the Second Body – Stephen Herczeg
The Case of the Troubled Policeman – Daniel D. Victor
The Unpleasant Affair in Clipstone Street – David Marcum
296 pages, Paperback
First published August 12, 2021
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December 16, 2022
Among the three volumes of 'After the East Wind Blows', this volume is undoubtedly the best one. It contains several highly enjoyable stories full of wit, charm, pathos and Holmesian retribution.
My favourites were~
1. 'The Adventure of Silver Screen' by Gordon Linzner;
2. 'The King of Devil's Horn Prison' by Derrick Belanger— a stunner;
3. 'Lights! Camera! Murder!' by Sonia Fetherston;
4. 'The Lonely Cavalier' by Tim Gambrell;
5. 'The West Egg Affair' by Joseph S. Walker;
6. 'The Curious Case of President Harding' by John Lawrence;
7. 'The Adventure of the Second Body' by Stephen Herczeg.
There were only three let-downs. Overall, I found this anthology to be truly impressive.
Recommended.
My favourites were~
1. 'The Adventure of Silver Screen' by Gordon Linzner;
2. 'The King of Devil's Horn Prison' by Derrick Belanger— a stunner;
3. 'Lights! Camera! Murder!' by Sonia Fetherston;
4. 'The Lonely Cavalier' by Tim Gambrell;
5. 'The West Egg Affair' by Joseph S. Walker;
6. 'The Curious Case of President Harding' by John Lawrence;
7. 'The Adventure of the Second Body' by Stephen Herczeg.
There were only three let-downs. Overall, I found this anthology to be truly impressive.
Recommended.
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