Books with title Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra

"A rollicking adventure story . . . [that] puts a superb spin on the intellectual byplay between Holmes and Watson. . . . Splendidly written homage."-Chicago Sun-TimesWith a case as confounding as any in the original Holmes canon and a tale so terrifying it lay hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra begins familiarly enough. Elizabeth Trent, a bereft widow determined to clear her husband's name of both suicide and embezzlement, visits literature's most celebrated detective at his Baker Street flat.Within hours, though, Mrs. Trent herself is dead, and her curious suicide note draws Holmes and Watson into a hunt for a brutal murderer that takes them from England to Egypt, to India, and finally to the city Mrs. Trent has fled-rich, mysterious Singapore. Throughout the course of their sea journey Holmes and Watson contend with a series of formidable foes, and continually the two travelers uncover connections between their enemies and the cunning, ruthless colonial master of Singapore, Lord Barington. They also find an ally in the captain of the Prophet, who tutors them in the mysteries of Bada-a nation of subhumans ruled by the gigantic rat Harat. And in the exquisite Widow Han, keeper of the secrets of Singapore, they find an ally and more, as her exotic charms threaten to undo even the inscrutable sleuth's defenses against the fair sex.

In deference to Sherlock Holmes’s wishes, Dr Watson kept the tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra a secret. However before he died he arranged that the bizarre story of the giant rat should be held in the vaults of a London bank until all the protagonists were dead.... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. The Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds’ greatest detective.

THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA When Dr Watson witnesses a fatal accident in London’s Dockland one winter’s morning, he has no idea that it is the start of a series of events which will culminate in him facing his own particularly unpleasant death. It takes all the ingenuity of Sherlock Holmes and Scotland Yard’s Tobias Gregson working together to unravel the mystery which surrounds the merchant ship, Matilda Briggs. Ultimately, however, Watson’s survival ultimately rests merely upon the fickleness of fate...THE AFFAIR OF THE ALUMINIUM CRUTCHThe Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch was one of the cases Holmes was called upon to solve in the early years of his career, long before he met up with John Watson. He is thus intrigued when, many years later, his landlady, Mrs Hudson, asks for his help in solving a family puzzle involving an aluminium crutch. This time, Dr Watson is on hand to contribute his own special expertise in arriving at a solution...Bob Bishop, a lifetime devotee of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creations, recreates the style and atmosphere of the master’s work with uncanny accuracy in these two contrasting adventures.

Watson narrates a new Holmes adventure featuring plenty of twists and classic touches In the autumn of 1898, the Docklands of London are stunned by the arrival of a long overdue clipper ship, the Matilda Briggs, which has apparently drifted into a vacant berth. The only crew member still on board is a young cabin boy and he is in the throes of death, following a mysterious attack. The great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, is called to investigate the matter but the case fails to grip his imagination. Instead, he is more interested in the disappearance of a famous archaeologist. A violent confrontation on the waterfront brings this story to a shocking conclusion.

A BRAND NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERYIf you love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original, you’ll love this gripping new tale from the world of Sherlock Holmes.PRAISE FOR PAUL D. GILBERT’S SHERLOCK HOLMES THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA“Since Sir Arthur created Sherlock Holmes, they have been many incarnation of him. I think Paul D. Gilbert’s work is the closest to the original.” K.G.A.“Cracking good story with plenty of history, action and Holmes at his best.” Colin“Every line is saturated in atmosphere, and conveys the very same feelings as Doyle's original books. I couldn't possibly compare any previous attempts, this is pure Sherlock.” Radulfus“Extremely well written indeed. Every bit as engrossing as the original Holmes stories.” KevAutumn 1898. London. A scandal in the making.Dockworkers are stunned by the arrival of the Matilda Briggs, a long overdue tea cutter returning from Calcutta. The dust-covered vessel has been abandoned by its crew, and seems to have drifted into a vacant berth guided by an unseen hand.The only member of the crew aboard is a lone cabin boy in the throes of death, following a murderous attack. The ship’s log has also vanished without a trace. All that remains is a series of indecipherable markings have been scratched into the ship’s decking.Sherlock Holmes and his faithful Watson are called to divest the Matilda Briggs of its secrets, only to be warned off. Then a young man appears at 122B Baker Street with a mysterious packet from his missing father – who disappeared journeying to London from Calcutta. A confounding conspiracy seems set to boil over.What was in the cargo besides innocent tea chests? Will the violence and rebellion that follow shift the tides from the favour of the Great Detective? Will the Giant Rat of Sumatra be revealed?And is the world finally ready for this tale to be told?Inspired from Conan Doyle’s most famous untold mystery, acclaimed Sherlockian Paul D. Gilbert expands the reach of Britain’s favourite sleuth in his most intriguing tale yet.DISCOVER THESE NEW ADVENTURES OF HOLMES AND WATSON. PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE ORIGINAL AND LOVERS OF CLASSIC MYSTERIES.ALSO BY PAUL GILBERTTHE ODYSSEY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES TRILOGYBook 1: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE UNHOLY TRINITYBook 2: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FOUR-HANDED GAMEBook 3: THE ILLUMINATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE LOST FILES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES SERIESBook 1: THE LOST FILES OF SHERLOCK HOLMESBook 2: THE CHRONICLES OF SHERLOCK HOLMESBook 3: THE ANNALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMESSTANDALONE NOVELSHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA

"A story for which the world is not yet prepared.” In these words Dr. John Watson, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, describes the legend of Harat, the gigantic rat who ruled over the nation of Bada and its “people who were not human.” Their story, hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson’s dispatch box, is now told at last—in a tale as compelling and colorful as any in the Holmes canon. What begins with a brutal “impossible” murder in a dreary London rooming house soon draws the celebrated master of detection, Sherlock Holmes, and his companion, Dr. Watson, into a hunt that takes them from England to Egypt, to India, and on to Singapore before encountering Harat, a creature even With a case as confounding as any in the original Holmes canon and a tale so terrifying it lay hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson’s dispatch box, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra begins familiarly enough. Elizabeth Trent, a bereft widow determined to clear her husband’s name of both suicide and embezzlement, visits literature’s most celebrated detective at his Baker Street flat. Within hours, though, Mrs. Trent herself is dead, and her curious suicide note draws Holmes and Watson into a hunt for a brutal murderer that takes them from England to Egypt, to India, and finally to the city Mrs. Trent has fled—rich, mysterious Singapore. Throughout the course of their sea journey Holmes and Watson contend with a series of formidable foes, and continually the two travelers uncover connections between their enemies and the cunning, ruthless colonial master of Singapore, Lord Barington. They also find an ally in the captain of the Prophet, who tutors them in the mysteries of Bada—a nation of subhumans ruled by the gigantic rat Harat. And in the exquisite Widow Han, keeper of the secrets of Singapore, they find an ally and more, as her exotic charms threaten to undo even the inscrutable sleuth’s defenses against the fair sex. “A rollicking adventure story ... [that] puts a superb spin on the intellectual byplay between Holmes and Watson.... Splendidly written homage.”—Chicago Sun-Times

In the autumn of 1898, the people living and working in London's Docklands are astonished by the arrival of a long overdue clipper, the MATILDA BRIGGS, which has apparently drifted into a vacant berth. On board, the only member of crew remaining is a young cabin boy - and he is close to death, following a mysterious attack. The great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes is called to investigate the matter, but what will he uncover? A violent confrontation on the waterfront brings this story to a shocking conclusion...

The Giant Rat of SumatraA Sherlock Holmes Fan FictionBy Christopher Milner"... the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."So said Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in the story The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire.Is the world finally ready in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century?Well ready or not, here it comes.In Mr. Milner's telling of the story which is part mystery, part thriller, part sci-fi fantasy and part romance, be prepared for a roller coaster ride on a 19th Century English circus carnival fair ground when roller coasters hadn't even been invented yet.From the ship Matilda Briggs where a cabin boy's recreation of a Vincent Van Gogh still life painting leads to disaster for one of the ship's steam engines to the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, England where cats are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.At times humourous and extremely comical to other times sinisterly horrifying and downright diabolical, Milner's story runs a gamut of emotions.From the eccentric Captain Heelander of the Matilda Briggs (a man a century and twenty years before his time) to a sinister stage magician who never takes off the masks he wears (sometimes a golden mask of Greek tragedy and other times a golden mask of Greek comedy), a torrid romance between a traveling hairbrush salesman and a Royal Navy officer's wife is thrown in for good measure against a background of exotic animals from the island of Sumatra and a living organism that appears as a giant dark cloud that terrorizes the cobblestone alleys of Stamford and is called the "Devil incarnate" by the town's Scottish maker of meat pies.In place of Dr. Watson as Holmes' companion for this adventure is the veterinarian Fred Clegg (who is the author Christopher Milner's actual great-grandfather) - an appropriate doctor for a tale involving animals from exotic Sumatra.And then there's Vittoria Donna Gina - the lovely singer, former lion tamer and now magician's stage assistant who seems to have caught the eye (and possibly the heart?) of Sherlock Holmes.For Irene Adler, she could just possibly be "the other woman".

Watson narrates a new Holmes adventure featuring plenty of twists and classic touches In the autumn of 1898, the Docklands of London are stunned by the arrival of a long overdue clipper ship, the Matilda Briggs, which has apparently drifted into a vacant berth. The only crew member still on board is a young cabin boy and he is in the throes of death, following a mysterious attack. The great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, is called to investigate the matter but the case fails to grip his imagination. Instead, he is more interested in the disappearance of a famous archaeologist. A violent confrontation on the waterfront brings this story to a shocking conclusion.