Soham Bagchi

David Marcum

David Ruffle

Mark Mower

Margaret Walsh

Craig Janacek

Arthur Hall

Anna Lord

Robert Perret

Geri Schear

Danielle Gastineau

Jennifer Met

S F Bennett

Welcome back once more to the Stranger's Room. The fire is blazing so help yourself to a brandy, pull up a chair to the fire and enjoy these tales from established and new Holmesian writers. Encompassing as they do tradition, humour and quirkiness, there is something for everyone. Enjoy! Featuring: David Ruffle, Danielle Gastineau, Soham Bagchi, Robert Perret, Mark Mower, David Marcum, Margaret Walsh, Anna Lord, Arthur Hall, Geri Schear, Jennifer Met, S F Bennett, Craig Janacek. Royalties from all the authors are being donated to Stepping Stones School at Undershaw.

Sherlock Holmes: Tales from the Stranger's Room - Volume 3

May, 1927. A young boy finds himself in the center of an epic tale of love, anger, hatred, honor, and merciless fate. A basketball-crazed land is about to witness the final days of the Central New York State Basketball League. Two legendary teams, the Albany Senators and the Troy Trojans are coming together for a final clash. The victor of this playoff series will go down in the record books as the ultimate team of the era. The most skilled players of the age are set to demonstrate the skills that made them famous. The Trojans, led by the heroic shooting guard Hector Price, flanked by his brother Paris and sweet-shooting Andy Apolinar, and anchored in the middle by the ferocious Sammy Zussman, desperately desire to wrest the title from their bitter rivals. The Senators, led by the gigantic center Arthur Atkinson, and driven by the magnificent power forward Alex Telamon and the crafty point guard Otis Lawson, hope to cement their status as the most imposing team ever assembled. But one man overshadows them all, the greatest basketball player of all time… Achilles Peterson. What should be but a series of fantastically entertaining games is forever altered when a momentous argument over women and honor sparks the fire that will plunge them all into disaster. A fire with a name… The Anger of Achilles Peterson. From the game’s first injury to the spiraling catastrophic conclusion, events unfold as if all involved were caught in the very threads of fate. At once the riveting story of two basketball games and a tragic reliving of a thousand years-old war, THE ANGER OF ACHILLES PETERSON tells a tale as old as time itself. The eternal battle of mankind with their passions, which can be channeled into acts of phenomenal skill and beauty, or left unchecked to destroy everything they touch. The futile struggle against destiny. And the desire for eternal glory, even at the cost of life itself.

The Anger of Achilles Peterson

Arthur Conan Doyle

John Grant

Derrick Belanger

Jayantika Ganguly

Deanna Baran

Katie Magnusson

Stephen Seitz

Mark Alberstat

Sonia Fetherston

Diane Madsen

S. Subramian

Sherlock Holmes! The very name of the world's greatest detective conjures up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs. But there was a time, a dark three-year period, when London had to make do without Sherlock Holmes. From 1891 to 1894, he was presumed to be dead, having perished during the epic struggle with that infamous Napoleon of Crime, Professor Moriarty, atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived. During those three years, he roamed the world, acting as an agent for the British Government and using his very special skills along the way. In Volume 1 of Holmes Away From Home, the incredible two-volume collection of new traditional Holmes adventures, we find Our Hero criss-crossing the world - Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. During this period known as The Great Hiatus, Holmes may have been in disguise, but there is no mistaking the person that Watson described as ". . . the best and wisest man whom I have ever known." The game is afoot!

1891-1892

Holmes Away from Home, Adventures from the Great Hiatus Volume I

THE SCHOOLROOM OF SORROW. Dive into the deepest abysses of the human soul with Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson. From the days before his career as a consulting detective to years of his restful retirement, Sherlock Holmes has all too often encountered terrible events that served to shape his philosophy. To Holmes, every adventure holds the possibility of teaching an earthly lesson regarding the nature of good and evil. These tales include The Father of Evil, The Adventure of the Dishonourable Discharge, The Adventure of the Fatal Fire, The Adventure of the Awakened Spirit, and The Cold Dish.AN EAST WIND. In the time of England's greatest need, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson stand ready. A great and awful war is brewing in the East, and foreign agents will do everything in their power to see England brought to its knees. Only the swift actions of Sherlock Holmes can prevent the empire's secrets from being sold to its enemies, thereby dooming thousands of brave young men to terrible deaths upon the fields of Flanders and in the frigid waters of the North Sea. These talks include The Adventure of the Third Traitor, The Adventure of the Unfathomable Silence, The High Mountain, The Adventure of the Defenceless Prisoner, and Their Final Flourish. Dr Watson narrates all ten adventures contained herein in the finest tradition and spirit of such classics as 'The Problem of Thor Bridge' and 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty.' This edition is fully annotated with a cornucopia of scholarly insights that compare these newly unearthed tales by Dr John H. Watson to the classic adventures from the Canon of Sherlock Holmes, as originally recounted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Gathering Gloom

Craig Janacek

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