The Problem of Threadneedle Street (The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes Book 2) by Craig Janacek
Authors: Craig Janacek
strangest cases which ever perplexed a man’s brain, and yet I lack the one or two which are needful to complete my theory. But I will have them, Watson, I’ll have them!”
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THE ASSASSINATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES will conclude in…
THE FALLING CURTAIN
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About the Author
In the year 1998 CRAIG JANACEK took his degree of Doctor of Medicine of Vanderbilt University, and proceeded to Stanford to go through the training prescribed for pediatricians in practice. Having completed his studies there, he was duly attached to the University of California, San Francisco as Associate Professor. The author of over seventy medical monographs upon a variety of obscure lesions, his travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of his fictional works. To date, these have been published solely in electronic format, including two non-Holmes novels ( The Oxford Deception & The Anger of Achilles Peterson ), the trio of holiday adventures collected as The Midwinter Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes , and a Watsonian novel entitled The Isle of Devils . His current project is the short trilogy The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes . His first in-press work will be included in the forthcoming MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Fall 2015) . Craig Janacek is a nom-de-plume .
For augmented content, connect with him online at: http://craigjanacek.wordpress.com.
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Literary Agent’s Foreword: Annotated
As detailed in the Foreword to The Adventure of the Pharaoh’s Curse , herein we present for your enjoyment a newly discovered tale by Dr. John H. Watson, the friend and biographer of the world’s first and foremost consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The manuscript was found in a much damaged condition, and in the restoration, a conscious decision was made to adopt American spellings of such words as ‘colour’ and ‘humour.’ Furthermore, for reasons known only to the author, and contrary to his more typical-style, [1] Dr. Watson divided into three separate narratives a unified tale of Holmes’ temporary return from the Happy Isles of retirement.
A synopsis of the first narrative: In late 1909, Sherlock Holmes has been drawn out of retirement by the pleadings of Inspector Lestrade, who is distraught that Holmes’ one-time ally, Inspector Patterson, has been cruelly murdered. With Dr. Watson at his side, Holmes journeys to the British Museum, where priceless items have been vanishing. In the Egyptian Gallery, strange things have been seen and there are whispers of a curse laid down by the mummy of a disturbed Pharaoh. The Director, the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities, and four guards are all suspects, but one guard has vanished and another proves to be the son of an old enemy of Holmes. When Holmes’ first solution fails to solve the case, Dr. Watson helps to set him back upon the right track. Finally, Parker, the garrotter, and James Windibank, are unmasked by Holmes as the villains. But just when Watson is ready to celebrate the successful conclusion to this final case, a coded message arrives for Holmes. The mysterious Mortlock has asked them a continuation of the riddle of the Sphinx: ‘what has no legs at midnight?’ And Holmes deduces that the answer can only be: ‘a corpse.’
We now commence, reader, where Watson left off, with that eerie message threatening all that they had accomplished together over the years and perhaps even the very life of Sherlock Holmes. But fear not, friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for ‘beyond this place of wrath and tears… and yet the menace of the years, finds and shall find [Holmes] unafraid.’ [2]
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THE PROBLEM OF
THREADNEEDLE STREET:
Annotated
It was with some measure of hesitation that I took up my pen in order to chronicle the incident of the Sphinx’s Riddle, for never before in the long and storied career of Mr. Sherlock Holmes had I witnessed such a mysterious conclusion to a
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THE ASSASSINATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES will conclude in…
THE FALLING CURTAIN
§
About the Author
In the year 1998 CRAIG JANACEK took his degree of Doctor of Medicine of Vanderbilt University, and proceeded to Stanford to go through the training prescribed for pediatricians in practice. Having completed his studies there, he was duly attached to the University of California, San Francisco as Associate Professor. The author of over seventy medical monographs upon a variety of obscure lesions, his travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of his fictional works. To date, these have been published solely in electronic format, including two non-Holmes novels ( The Oxford Deception & The Anger of Achilles Peterson ), the trio of holiday adventures collected as The Midwinter Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes , and a Watsonian novel entitled The Isle of Devils . His current project is the short trilogy The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes . His first in-press work will be included in the forthcoming MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Fall 2015) . Craig Janacek is a nom-de-plume .
For augmented content, connect with him online at: http://craigjanacek.wordpress.com.
§
Literary Agent’s Foreword: Annotated
As detailed in the Foreword to The Adventure of the Pharaoh’s Curse , herein we present for your enjoyment a newly discovered tale by Dr. John H. Watson, the friend and biographer of the world’s first and foremost consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The manuscript was found in a much damaged condition, and in the restoration, a conscious decision was made to adopt American spellings of such words as ‘colour’ and ‘humour.’ Furthermore, for reasons known only to the author, and contrary to his more typical-style, [1] Dr. Watson divided into three separate narratives a unified tale of Holmes’ temporary return from the Happy Isles of retirement.
A synopsis of the first narrative: In late 1909, Sherlock Holmes has been drawn out of retirement by the pleadings of Inspector Lestrade, who is distraught that Holmes’ one-time ally, Inspector Patterson, has been cruelly murdered. With Dr. Watson at his side, Holmes journeys to the British Museum, where priceless items have been vanishing. In the Egyptian Gallery, strange things have been seen and there are whispers of a curse laid down by the mummy of a disturbed Pharaoh. The Director, the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities, and four guards are all suspects, but one guard has vanished and another proves to be the son of an old enemy of Holmes. When Holmes’ first solution fails to solve the case, Dr. Watson helps to set him back upon the right track. Finally, Parker, the garrotter, and James Windibank, are unmasked by Holmes as the villains. But just when Watson is ready to celebrate the successful conclusion to this final case, a coded message arrives for Holmes. The mysterious Mortlock has asked them a continuation of the riddle of the Sphinx: ‘what has no legs at midnight?’ And Holmes deduces that the answer can only be: ‘a corpse.’
We now commence, reader, where Watson left off, with that eerie message threatening all that they had accomplished together over the years and perhaps even the very life of Sherlock Holmes. But fear not, friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for ‘beyond this place of wrath and tears… and yet the menace of the years, finds and shall find [Holmes] unafraid.’ [2]
§
THE PROBLEM OF
THREADNEEDLE STREET:
Annotated
It was with some measure of hesitation that I took up my pen in order to chronicle the incident of the Sphinx’s Riddle, for never before in the long and storied career of Mr. Sherlock Holmes had I witnessed such a mysterious conclusion to a
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