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Sherlock Holmes Never Dies - Collection Ten: Five New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Kindle Edition

4.4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

Five new pastiche stories of the world's greatest detective. These stories are shorter than the other novellas in the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries set and were published earlier in either the MX Books or Belanger Books anthologies of Sherlock Holmes stories (Edited by David Marcum). 'The Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee' is one of the unpublished cases we hear about in The Canon. The story Takes Holmes and Watson to the tropical island of Ceylon on behalf of the Foreign Office to investigate the murder of one of the Atkinson brothers and sends Holmes into a nasty web of deceit, murder, and perversion in the heat of the colonies. In 'The Barrel of Lagavulin' the adventures of Sherlock Holmes meet up with characters from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and we learn what happens long after the horrendous events recorded in 'The Cask of Amontillado.' Did you ever wonder what happened to the characters from the Vermissa Valley that you read about in 'The Valley of Fear?" In 'The Fear of Retribution' you will find out, and it is not pleasant. 'The Adventure of the Winchester Heart-Breaker' takes Holmes and Watson back to the Copper Beeches and to what happened to the nasty child who loved to go 'smack, smack, smack' on the cockroaches. 'The Adventure of the Tea-Stained Diamonds' is a completely new Sherlock Holmes mystery in which Holmes needs to stop a cycle of revenge killings that began years earlier in the tea gardens of Darjeeling. If you love the stories of Sherlock Holmes, these five new mysteries will appeal to you. Click now and start enjoying MORE SHERLOCK.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08KNHTGBL
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 17, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.5 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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    4.4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

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Craig Stephen Copland
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Dear fellow lovers of historical mysteries: It's elementary, my dear reader. What else, after reaching the age of joyful retirement is a refined gentleman to do with his time but write more stories about Sherlock Holmes or the fascinating world of New York City between the wars?

Craig Stephen Copland confesses that he discovered Sherlock Holmes when, some time in the muddled early 1960s he pinched his older brother's copy of the immortal stories and was forever afterward thoroughly hooked. He first visited New York City in the summer of 1963 and was forever afterward thoroughly hooked.

He is very grateful to his high school English teachers at Scarlet Heights Collegiate Institute in Toronto who inculcated in him a love of literature and writing, and even inspired him to be an English major at the University of Toronto. There he was blessed to sit at the feet of both Northrup Frye and Marshall McLuhan, and other great literary professors, who led him to believe that he was called to be a high school English teacher.

It was his good fortune to come to his pecuniary senses, abandon that goal and pursue a varied professional career that took him to over one hundred countries and endless adventures. He considers himself to have been and to continue to be one of the luckiest men on God's good earth.

A few years back he took a step in the direction of Sherlockian studies and joined the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada--also known as the Toronto Bootmakers. In May of 2014, this esteemed group of scholars announced a contest for the writing of a new Sherlock Holmes mystery. Although he had never tried his hand at fiction before, Craig entered and was pleasantly surprised to be selected as one of the winners. Having enjoyed the experience he decided to write more of the same and went on a mission to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery novel that was related to and inspired by each of the sixty stories in the original Canon.

Having competed that task—sixty short novels and twenty short stories—in the autumn of2023, he set out on a new quest. He is currently writing a series of mystery/thriller books set in New York City during the era between World Wars One and Two. Each story takes place in a subsequent year. The series began in 1920 and will end in 1941.

While writing these stories, he and his fabulous wife have been living in Toronto, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, New York, Bahrain, Kuala Lumpur and the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. They might settle down when he turns ninety. Or not.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020
    _Collection Ten of Sherlock Holmes Never Dies_ is the latest feast for Sherlockians from Crag Copland. This is a real potpourri of take-offs from the Canon and one completely original story that does not really fit in Copland's growing collection of homage to each of Conan Doyle's 60+ Holmes tales.

    The stories in this collection that do take off from the Canon answer a question I've often asked when I finish a Conan Doyle offering: ...and then what happened? What did the characters do weeks, months or even years after?

    Nor does Copland stick just to expected Holmes chronicles . He also takes Holmes to visit a tale of one the best-known detectives in fiction: Poe's Auguste Dupin helping Dupin solve a series of murders by a killer who has eluded the old detective for decades.

    With the exception of the last story, these are so nicely crafted that I felt as if I was reading some of Watson's "lost" stories hidden away in his tin box. These four - like virtually all of Copland's Sherlockian work - are carefully written, historically accurate where he mixes history and fiction, with transitions between fact and fiction that are completely seamless leaving the reader wondering which is which (a must for superior period pieces).

    The last story is 100% Copland. While it still has the Conan Doyle touch, it is a Copland original in every sense. It does not refer to anything in the Canon and is an excellent read - perhaps one of Copland's best.

    I have been a beta reader for Craig for some time and his stories (cliché warning) mature like fine wine. This was a real treat and I enjoyed every minute... unfortunately, as a beta reader, I just couldn't find anything to criticize. And neither will you.

    --Dr. Peter Stephenson
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020
    I have read hundreds of Sherlock Holmes stories over the years. Craig Stephen Copland's Sherlock is new and reflective. The stories read well and kept my interest. Plots were unique and unpredictable. If you are looking for a good leisurely read, I suggest you try Copland.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020
    Like so many others, I began reading Sir Conan Doyle's 56 original short stories and 4 novels as a young person. Only to be hooked to the charm of Holmes and Watson's Victorian era London and their adventures. For a while, I read and reread the original canon. But alas, in recent times many Holmes enthusiasts have taken up the cause of unearthing previously undiscovered adventures of Holmes and Watson.
    For this I am grateful. Mr. Copland is a most excellent writer of the Sherlock pastiche genre and thank goodness, very prolific.
    In his latest publication of the Holmes never dies series, number 10, he has put together 5 diverse, well written and entertaining tales.He takes us around London, the English countryside and even abroad to Ceylon. Weaving historical events with references to cases in the original canon, his plots are rich and well developed. I look forward to Mr. Copland's continuing stories and highly recommend them.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2023
    Great reads for Sherlock fans.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2020
    These were amazing stories. The plot kept me interested as each delved into excitement and adventure. If you're looking for a quick and intriguing mystery to keep you on your toes, I suggest you read these five short stories by Copeland.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2020
    These are five excellent Sherlock Holmes stories in the best Holmes-Watson tradition. They are exciting, thought provoking, and well crafted. They blend humor with mystery intertwined with the logic of Holmes and the philosophy of Watson. Doyle couldn't have done better!
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2020
    Here are more fine stories in the tradition of the originals with the language slightly tweaked for modern audiences.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2021
    Let me start off by saying that I normally enjoy this author. In fact, the stories leading up to this book, I have read them all, I have mostly loved. However, this collection leaves a lot of the stories unresolved with no satisfying ending. You are left wondering what happened and looking for more pages of explanations. If you like open endings, you might like this collection, I however, like my stories wrapped up, and having Holmes solve the crime. Read the others before this and give this one a skip.
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