{"product_id":"without-my-boswell-five-early-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-9781912605583","title":"Without my Boswell: Five Early Adventures of Sherlock Holmes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSherlock Holmes is well known to us through the adventures he shared with John Watson and related by the good doctor. But even before that fateful meeting when Holmes observed to the man who was to become his closest friend, \"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive,\" the world's first consulting detective had already taken on and solved many baffling cases.\u003cbr\u003e This book relates five of these early adventures, all of which were tantalisingly mentioned by John Watson in his accounts of the adventures, but not expanded upon. Instead, they were hidden in the infamous dispatch-box, to be discovered and edited by Hugh Ashton over one hundred years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Tarleton Murders: A horrific mass murder strikes Sherlock Holmes to the depths of his soul.\u003cbr\u003e The Case of Vamberry, the Wine Merchant: takes Holmes to Paris, where he uncovers a dastardly scheme which involves the  lys e Palace itself.\u003cbr\u003e The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch: where Sherlock Holmes assists a \"dismasted\" former sailor and an entrepreneurial industrialist.\u003cbr\u003e The Case of the Abominable Wife: which brings Holmes face to face with the handiwork of a criminal gang.\u003cbr\u003e The Adventure of the Two Bottles: Three little children appear to have met their deaths through poison. But who would want to kill them? And why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoerger, Andy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andy Boerger lives in Tokyo, with a family that includes ferrets. He has published several books of his drawings and writings, as well as illustrating other authors' books. He and Hugh Ashton have collaborated on a series of detective stories for children, the first being Sherlock Ferret and the Missing Necklace, featuring the world's cutest detective. His work may be viewed at www.AndyBoerger.com\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAshton, Hugh:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Hugh Ashton has been described by The District Messenger, the newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, as one of the best writers of new Sherlock Holmes stories, in both plotting and style. Originally living in Kamakura, Japan, and now a resident of Lichfield in the UK, Ashton continues to produce adventures of Sherlock Holmes that are frequently favourably compared to the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.","brand":"J-Views Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445746798866,"sku":"9781912605583","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f542fde4-71b1-4ebe-8784-08e18da86a7b.jpg?v=1729703697","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/without-my-boswell-five-early-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-9781912605583","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}