Here’s a book to read if you want to know what really led Jack Stapleton (of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles) to kill his uncle Sir Charles Baskerville.

Posted: 27-Mar-2025

If the The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of your favorite novels, you surely remember its sinister, sordid end, don’t you? It was an inside job traced to Jack Stapleton (alias Rodger Baskerville II). Jack proved to be the knave who killed his own uncle, Sir Charles Baskerville, in an attempt to inherit Baskerville's estate.

But what was Jack’s motive? Was he just an indolent aristocrat who didn’t want to work for a living, preferring instead to live on inherited riches? Did he do it suddenly, without warning or out of desperation, after all attempts to get his share by just means had failed?

Read this book to find out.

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If you like the ‘Suspense & Thriller” genre of stories, this may be a good choice for your next read.

Posted: 27-Jan-2025

This book, written during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, contains 13 thrillers, one story corresponding to each month between March 2020 and March 2021, when COVID-19 forced people worldwide into seclusion. It’s the fruit of the time the author spent in those 13 months of seclusion.

Evil, ominous, ghostly, deadly and/or chilling are some words I’d use to describe the stories it contains. It’s guaranteed not to disappoint, if you’re a fan of the ‘Suspense & Thriller” genre, but it's not for the faint-hearted.

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Sherlock Holmes solves a complex case in which he recovers millions looted from the biggest banks of France and England

Posted: 17-Apr-2024

The formula for looting large banks: distract the police by a prior high-profile crime and while they are disoriented and focused on it, loot the bank! In this Sherlock Holmes story, the formula is synchronously applied to steal millions from Banque de France and Bank of England by an international network of big time criminals. Yet, Sherlock Holmes and his French counterparts snatch victory from the hands of these powerful criminals just in the nick of time.

There’s a reason why the robberies are committed at the same time and hence the book’s title ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Synchrony Stratagem’. Read this book to find out, while you uravel a great story!

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A second-generation Sherlock Holmes pastiche, yet equally impressive

Posted: 09-Jul-2023

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After he passed, experimenting with new possibilities, locations, dimensions, situations, etc. that fans would love to see Sherlock Holmes in, A C Doyle’s imitators have churned out an impressive array of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. No fan can ignore them because they extend/complement Doyle’s originals well. This one imaginatively attempts to bring him right into our times (the year 2023, if you wish!) but since he died and was resurrected once before, another “resurrection” might not sell. The author works around that constraint by using a ‘secretary’ and his girlfriend to substitute for Holmes.

He successfully delivers an equally impressive story featuring the fictitious Loch Ness monster, Nessie. Check it out to see if, like me, you like it too!

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It's Sherlock Holmes again! And the author? Paul D Gilbert

Posted: 04-Jun-2023

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This book has 10 Sherlock Holmes stories for your enjoyment, in which Holmes is pitted against the powers of 'darkness' – spirits, demons, and apparitions. They stretch him to his very limits but he isn't overwhelmed.

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Allow author Harry DeMaio to regale you as he expands the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes world — all the way up to heaven

Posted: 17-Dec-2022

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The world of Sherlock Holmes has been growing unstoppably ever after he was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Even after Doyle stopped writing Sherlock Holmes stories, new authors have been employing him in new lands, times, and contexts all over the world, per their imagination. Fans love the additions too. Now, here's the latest (addition): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Glamorous Ghost - Vol 3 by Harry DeMaio.

It's a jaw-dropping addition to Holmes' world - a spacetime straddling heaven and earth! Former human beings (now saints in heaven) assist him with their supernatural powers to solve crime! Can any criminal hope to hide their crime in the future from the combined power of Holmes and heaven? Read this book and tell me of anyone who can.

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