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Wiggins: Son of Sherlock by Dorothy Ellen Palmer (Paperback)

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Wiggins: Son of Sherlock

“Wiggins is full of surprises, pulling us back into the world of 221B from an entirely original angle – as if Palmer had found a secret hiding space even the Great Detective had never accessed!”
Angela Misri (Portia Adams Adventures).

Book Description

On New Year’s Day 1891, Sherlock Holmes summons the limping street urchin, Wiggins, to Baker Street and decrees he must die at dawn. Wiggins, however, has other plans. To fulfil the dying wish of his mother, Irene Adler, he schemes with his two formidable American aunties to keep two important facts from the great detective: Mrs. Hudson is actually his Aunt Grizelda, and he is both Holmes’ child and a girl pretending to be a boy.

Through a series of mysterious letters Adler bequeathed to Wiggins, the dark backstory of her parents and all their long-kept family secrets unravel. To flee the mad King of Bohemia trying to claim Wiggins as his heir, Holmes and Wiggins begin their Great Hiatus. From Mycroft to Moriarty, from Dr. John H. Watson to the Baker Street Irregulars, from P.T. Barnum to Jumbo the Elephant, Wiggins learns little is what it seems. Slowly learning to trust each other, Holmes and Wiggins travel from London to Reichenbach Falls to New York City to a small farm in Canada which holds the secrets of their family history. Together, they correct the errors in Watson’s tales, bond over Wiggins’ disability, drop their masquerades, and deduce a father and daughter future.

About the Author of Wiggins: Son of Sherlock

Dorothy Ellen Palmer is a disabled writer, binge knitter, mom of two, and a retired teacher, improv coach, and union activist. Illicitly conceived in Hurricane Hazel and adopted at age three, she grew up in suburban Toronto and now lives in Burlington. For three decades, she worked in three provinces as both an elementary teacher and a high school English/Drama teacher. She taught on a Mennonite Colony, in a four-room schoolhouse, an Adult Learning Centre attached to a prison, and a highly diverse new high school in Pickering. She created the only high school improv program in Canada, and coached for The Canadian Improv Games. Each year, she toured elementary schools with her improv students, presenting interactive workshops to fight bullying, racism, sexism, sexual harassment, homophobia and ableism with good old-fashioned fun. For over a decade, her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary and disability journals.

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