Watson’s Wives and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Thomas A Turley (Paperback)

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Watson’s Wives and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Thomas A Turley (Paperback)

Of all the conundrums that have puzzled Sherlockian scholars, few have been thornier than the “vexed question” of Dr. Watson’s wives. In these ten stories, readers will meet the all-but-unknown women who preceded and succeeded Mary Morstan, as well as learning more about poor Mary’s fate. Other cases involve Our Heroes with all levels of Victorian society, including prime ministers and prostitutes, aristocrats and generals, amateur sleuths and Scotland Yarders, composers, novelists, and even ghosts. The tales cover the entire span of Holmes and Watson’s friendship, running from 1881 to 1937.

Review Quotes:

Reviews of Tom’s previous book, Sherlock Holmes and the Crowned Heads of Europe (2021):

The Baker Street Journal: “[F]our clever pastiches woven around Holmes’s connections to the German empire over the quarter century leading up to the First World War. Holmes and Watson deal with royalty and spies in ways that shed light on “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “His Last Bow.”

Canadian Holmes: “[Takes] the reader on a journey from 1888 to 1913 . . . with the engrossing manner of a saga. . . . Sherlock Holmes and the Crowned Heads of Europe is an inspired mash-up of fact and fiction.”

The Historical Novel Society: “Holmes and Watson’s efforts to calm troubled European waters . . . in the years leading to the Great War make for fascinating reading.”

Publishers Weekly: “[A] superior collection of four interconnected novellas involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in intelligence work on behalf of the British government. . . . Sherlock-ians will welcome more such volumes from this gifted author.”