Cases of Singular Interest series by Mike Hogan (#1, 4-6)
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Overview: Mike is British and currently lives in Asia. He writes novels, plays and screenplays. He is an avid Holmesian and a Monty Python and Frasier fan. His obsessions are Shakespeare, Ancient Rome and the Royal Navy. Among his favourite modern writers are Patrick O’Brian, Mary Beard, Robert Harris, Stephen Ambrose, Rick Atkinson, Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery > Historical Mystery
Sherlock Holmes 01 – The Skull of Kohada Koheiji and Other Stories
The Japanese Village Exhibition in Knightsbridge is being terrorized by a strange apparition. Is it, as the villagers believe, the ghost of murdered actor Kohada Koeiji, or is a dark human agency involved?This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghost need apply.’Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Arthur Conan DoyleDespite Holmes’ injunction, clients troubled with vampires, apparitions, mummies and disembodied skulls mount the seventeen steps at 221b Baker Street and apply to his agency, and he is reluctantly obliged to investigate their claims.In this collection of five traditional novelettes, Holmes and Watson pit their skills against unearthly predators, and probe evidence that suggests ghouls and ghosts are behind the macabre, uncanny and eerie happenings in a grimy house in Stepney, on board one of Her Majesty’s men o’ war in the Thames, at the British Museum, at the Japanese Village Exhibition and at a séance in a genteel villa in West London.Have ghosts had the temerity to challenge Sherlock Holmes, or will Holmes and Watson uncover human agencies behind the supposed supernatural?
Sherlock Holmes 04 – Tragedy at Hutton Hall and Other Stories
Is Lady Margaret of Hutton Hall in Surrey being slow- poisoned, as the evidence seems to suggest? Or is an even more convoluted and murderous plot being hatched in which Sherlock Holmes is an unwitting confederate?
In the first novella, Christmas at Hutton Hall is marred by tragedy as Holmes pits his wits not only against a criminal conspiracy, but against wily Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary.
In the short story, The Tranquillity of the Morning, an officer recently returned from the war in Upper Burma seeks Holmes’ help in removing a destructive evil force from his home before it destroys his father’s valuable blue-and-white china collection. Is the Jade Dragon King of the Eastern Sea disturbing the tranquillity of the morning or is a human agency at work?
In the second novella, the theft of a certain intimate objet de chambre from under Holmes’ bed may have consequences of serious, even European moment. If certain very exalted persons were confronted with objets belonging to the other, armies would mobilise and Europe would be plunged into the flames of war.
Two novellas and a short story written in the traditional style and narrated by Dr Watson.
Sherlock Holmes 05 – Vigor the Hammersmith Wonder and Other Stories
Traditional short stories told by Doctor Watson with perhaps a wry twist. The strongman in a music hall act disappears with a lady of the chorus, leading to a probable murder and the compromising of Britain’s naval supremacy leaving her ships helpless in the face of her enemies. The denouement of the case takes place on the Thames and involves the cast of the Hammersmith Temple of Varieties battling sinister agents of a foreign power.A safe is blown at a jeweller’s in the City. Suspicion falls on a professional yeggman or safecracker, but is all as it seems?A British officer escapes from captivity by Burmese bandits and Holmes is called in to establish his bona fides. Is he who he purports to be, or an imposter coveting the family title and estates.Jabez Wilson’s pawnbroker’s shop, the scene of the case of the Redheaded League, may be at the centre of another conspiracy.Doctor Watson is forced to operate at gunpoint on a wounded thief while Holmes follows slender clues to rescue him.Lastly, the composer of a popular jingle fears he is being copied, but who is the true composer of the song?
Sherlock Holmes 06 – The Waterloo Colour and Other Stories
Did Ensign the Hon. Ian Lewin, 112th Foot, deliberately allow the French to capture his regiment’s flag? A seventy-year-old cold case of cowardice in the face of the enemy leads Holmes to France on the trail of the missing Waterloo colour.Five traditional stories narrated by Doctor Watson and with an occasional wry twist. In Angelique, Holmes is incapacitated by fever and he requires his fellow lodger Doctor Watson to act as his sleuthhound in a missing persons case. Watson is constrained by Holmes to procure “raw facts, my dear fellow. Do not expend your energy in analysis: leave that to me.” Watson’s investigation uncovers two separate, competing conspiracies, with each conspirator competing for the destruction of the other. The Waterloo Colour sees Holmes investigating a seventy-year-old mystery that has spawned at least one duel and has had two families at each others’ throats for a generation. The story of the Benevolent and Virtuous Order of the Swamp Python sees a Chinese secret society, attempt to establish itself in South London and Holmes’ use of the most modern technology to thwart them. In the Abominable Madame Ricoletti, the escape of a patient from the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor puts Holmes, Watson and Lestrade at terrible risk. Lastly, in ‘Amity Among Nations’, Holmes must find the source of a leak of diplomatic secrets that might be a catalyst for war between The United Kingdom and the United States.
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