THE SECRET NOTEBOOKS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
In Sherlock Holmes’s London, reputations are fragile and scandal can be ruinous. In order to protect the names of the good (and not-so-good), Dr Watson conceals unpublished manuscripts in an old despatch box, deep in the vaults of a Charing Cross bank …
Now, outlasting the memories of those they could have harmed, these mysteries finally come to light. An aluminium crutch betrays the criminal who relies upon it for support … An Italian Cardinal lies dead in a muddy yard in Spitalfields … Can Holmes and Watson outwit the jewel thief who has the nerve to steal from the King of Scandinavia?
THE SECRET ARCHIVES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
A mysterious veiled lady carries a counterfeit painting into an art dealer’s office. A widow with three hands slips out of a church door. A farmer lies dead in a barn, his son accused of his murder, and a skeleton with a silver locket is unearthed in a back garden. Who can solve these mysteries? One man. He lives in Baker Street.
Accompanied by the faithful Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes is back and brilliant as ever in this brand new series of untold adventures from June Thomson, packed with enigmas and enemies of old …
About the Author
JUNE THOMSON, a former teacher, has published over thirty novels, twenty of which feature her series detective Inspector Jack Finch and his sergeant, Tom Boyce. She has also written six pastiche collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Her books have been translated into many languages. June Thomson lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
By June Thomson
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION
The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes and Watson
The Secret Documents of Sherlock Holmes
The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
THE JACK FINCH MYSTERIES
Going Home
Copyright
Allison & Busby Limited
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First published in Great Britain in 1993.
This ebook edition published by Allison & Busby in 2012.
Copyright © 1993 by JUNE THOMSON
The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent buyer.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–0–7490–1229–8
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