Without my Boswell - Ashton, Hugh
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Sherlock Holmes is well known to us through the adventures he shared with John Watson and related by the good doctor. But even before that fateful meeting when Holmes observed to the man who was to become his closest friend, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," the world's ¿rst consulting detective had already taken on and solved many baf¿ing cases. This book relates ¿ve of these early adventures, all of which were tantalisingly mentioned by John Watson in his accounts of the adventures, but not expanded upon. Instead, they were hidden in the infamous dispatch-box, to be discovered and…mehr

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Sherlock Holmes is well known to us through the adventures he shared with John Watson and related by the good doctor. But even before that fateful meeting when Holmes observed to the man who was to become his closest friend, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," the world's ¿rst consulting detective had already taken on and solved many baf¿ing cases. This book relates ¿ve of these early adventures, all of which were tantalisingly mentioned by John Watson in his accounts of the adventures, but not expanded upon. Instead, they were hidden in the infamous dispatch-box, to be discovered and edited by Hugh Ashton over one hundred years later. The Tarleton Murders : A horri¿c mass murder strikes Sherlock Holmes to the depths of his soul. The Case of Vamberry, the Wine Merchant : takes Holmes to Paris, where he uncovers a dastardly scheme which involves the Élysée Palace itself. The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch : where Sherlock Holmes assists a "dismasted" former sailor and an entrepreneurial industrialist. The Case of the Abominable Wife : which brings Holmes face to face with the handiwork of a criminal gang. The Adventure of the Two Bottles : Three little children appear to have met their deaths through poison. But who would want to kill them? And why?
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Autorenporträt
After graduating from the University of Cambridge in 1977, Hugh moved between various jobs before ending up in the field of IT. His interests took him to Japan in 1988 on a two-year contract, to work as a technical writer. Twenty-eight years later, he returned to the UK with his wife Yoshiko, to live in the Midlands cathedral city of Lichfield, the setting for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries, "The Lichfield Murder", close to Rugeley, the setting for "The Bloody Steps". As well as this title, he published a dozen volumes of Sherlock Holmes adventures with Inknbeans Press of California (now sadly defunct, with the titles now published by j-views Publishing), many based on the "untold adventures" referenced in the canon, and all in the style of the originals, which has led some critics to describe him as "the reincarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" and one of the most authentic of the current crop of pastiche writers. Like ACD, he has also written contemporary thrillers, vintage science fiction, and historical adventures, as well as a critically acclaimed volume of short stories about the older generation in Japan, "Tales of Old Japanese". However, he does not play cricket, and though he once grew a moustache, it is by now no more than a fading memory.