The Dispatch Box series of John H. Watson MD by Hugh Ashton (Books 1-5)
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Overview: Hugh Ashton was born in the UK in 1956. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he worked in a variety of jobs, including security guard, publisher’s assistant, and running an independent record label, before coming to rest in the field of information technology, where he assisted perplexed users of computers and wrote explanations to guide them through the problems they encountered.
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
1. Notes From the Dispatch Box of John H Watson, MD: Another discovery from the vaults of Cox and Co., the old London bank which had forwarded the Deed Box of John H Watson to the author last year. The Dispatch Box contains all manner of illuminating documents about Messrs. Holmes and Watson. Of particular interest are what the author refers to as The Affair of the Vatican Cameos, the Reigate Poisoning Case, and a document apparently written by the man Holmes himself called ‘the fourth smartest man in London’, John Clay.
2. Further Notes From the Dispatch Box of John H Watson MD: The second box ("the dispatch-box") to be discovered in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross has been the source of even more discoveries concerning the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes.
This collection includes a Foreword from consulting Sherlockian Dr. Philip C. Eyster, who writes, "I had only read a few pages of his initial story, when I knew that Mr. Ashton has not only the skill but also the deep-felt desire to faithfully add to the canon the same Sherlock as came from the pen of Author Conan Doyle over 100 years ago".
3. The Reigate Poisoning: Concluded: The Reigate Poisoning Case: Concluded forms a sequel to the adventure described in Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson MD and provides a full and satisfying conclusion to that story. It is not often that Sherlock Holmes made an error of judgement, but this is one case where he made such a fatal (literally) mistake. No wonder that he prevented Watson from publishing the case in his lifetime!
4. The Death of Cardinal Tosca: In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr. John Watson writes about Sherlock Holmes’ "famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca–an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope." The express wishes of Sherlock Holmes, as expressed in a written note on the outside of an envelope, have been ignored, in order to bring this case before the public. "…sealed with a wax seal and the impression of a signet ring with the initial ‘S’. On the back flap were written, in that splendidly sprawling but legible hand with which I am now familiar, the words ‘Not to be opened before September 25, 2014’."
5. Without My Boswell: Five Early Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: "I am lost without my Boswell," declares Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia". Indeed, the interplay between the solid ex-Army doctor, and the more mercurial purveyor of "ineffable twaddle" forms a large part of the appeal of the adventures which Watson caused to be published, and Watson himself, as well as acting as a publicist for Holmes’ business, provides more solid assistance on many occasions.
But… before John Watson had that fateful encounter with the eccentric beater of corpses at Barts, there was a consulting detective by the name of Sherlock Holmes, who had already built up a practice and a reputation that extended to Scotland Yard. However much he may have felt lost without his Boswell later in his career, Holmes was playing a solo game when he started out.
We see a little of Holmes alone (apologies for the inevitable pun) in "The Case of the Gloria Scott" and "The Musgrave Ritual", and it is in Watson’s account of this latter adventure that we hear of some other cases at a time when Holmes was presumably learning his trade.
The written accounts of some of these were in the dispatch-box, bound together in an envelope, in Watson’s writing.
The envelope was inscribed "Before My Time", again in Watson’s hand. The stories in here are all somewhat less interesting from the point of view of the interplay between Holmes and other characters, but they all shed a light on Holmes’ methods of deduction as he learned his trade, and often also shed light on his character. As Holmes himself remarked, not all of these may be seen as successes, but none of the cases here may be regarded as a complete failure. Here they are – with five original illustrations by Andy Boerger.
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