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The Giant Rat of Sumatra and The Affair of the Aluminium Crutch: A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE (The Lost Casebook)
The Giant Rat of Sumatra and The Affair of the Aluminium Crutch A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE - The Lost Casebook Author:Bob Bishop THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA When Dr Watson witnesses a fatal accident in London?s Dockland one winter?s morning, he has no idea that it is the start of a series of events which will culminate in him facing his own particularly unpleasant death. It takes all the ingenuity of Sherlock Holmes and Scotland Yard?s Tobias Gregson working together to unra... more »vel the mystery which surrounds the merchant ship, Matilda Briggs. Ultimately, however, Watson?s survival ultimately rests merely upon the fickleness of fate...THE AFFAIR OF THE ALUMINIUM CRUTCHThe Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch was one of the cases Holmes was called upon to solve in the early years of his career, long before he met up with John Watson. He is thus intrigued when, many years later, his landlady, Mrs Hudson, asks for his help in solving a family puzzle involving an aluminium crutch. This time, Dr Watson is on hand to contribute his own special expertise in arriving at a solution...Bob Bishop, a lifetime devotee of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s creations, recreates the style and atmosphere of the master?s work with uncanny accuracy in these two contrasting adventures.« less