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Sherlock Book Reviews - Mary Watson In The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Mary Watson In The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes Magazine In the late nineteenth-century London, beneath the glitz lay social turmoil. Mary Watson, inspired by her husband and Sherlock Holmes, battles injustice and aids the vulnerable.   Mary Watson: In The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes is available from this site and also from:   Amazon USA     Barnes and Noble    Amazon UK About This Book: London, end of the century, the capital of the largest empire of the world: a sprawling city populated by millions of people. Yet not all that glitters is gold. Behind, or rather beneath the lights and extravagance, the theaters and music,...

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Sherlock Books Generate Over 700 Meals for ShareTheMeal

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Sherlock Books Generate Over 700 Meals for ShareTheMeal

We're delighted to confirm that since we began donating a meal for every book bought on this website, we have now passed 700 meals donated.  We encourage all others with online shops to do the same. It's a way for every customer that uses your shop to make a difference to those in need. The ShareTheMeal program has now passed over 200 million meals.     Our co-founder, Steve Emecz, has been an external advisory council member for the last seven years for the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich. He's participated in many bootcamps and innovation nights as well as mentoring several...

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Book Review - Adventures of a Teenage Detective

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Book Review - Adventures of a Teenage Detective

Sherlock Holmes Society of London  The subtitle identifies the target readership of this graphic novel. It’s set in the present day, though it begins with a flashback to the terrible event that led to Violet’s being adopted as his daughter by Sherlock Holmes. The story proper begins with Violet’s first day at school after years of home tutoring. It becomes evident that Sherlock had rather special reasons for choosing Bardle School, where break-ins have occurred, computer equipment has been stolen, some pupils and a teacher appear to be engaged in secret activities, and the headmaster has some sort of a...

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Book Reviews - Through a Glass Starkly - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

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Book Reviews - Through a Glass Starkly - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

Sherlock Holmes Society of London  This is Richard T. Ryan’s fifth pastiche: a lively and intriguing tale in which Holmes is recruited by his brother Mycroft to ensure the safety of some international diplomats at a secret peace conference convened in 1907. But in serving ‘King and Country’ — and doing their best to prevent the continent of Europe from slipping towards a possible war — Holmes and Watson are also drawn into a number of other seemingly unrelated cases which threaten to derail their investigations. Ryan’s Watsonian voice is superb, and as with his earlier novels the author has...

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Book Reviews - EARTHLINGS by Phil Growick

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Book Reviews - EARTHLINGS by Phil Growick

EARTHLINGS is best viewed in colour digital format on an iPad, Kindle Fire or Samsung Galaxy Tab or similar and is now available on Kindle USA, Kindle UK, Kindle Canada and all Amazon sites and soon in other digital formats. The Audio version also includes the amazing visuals as an included PDF. You can also read some of the EARTHLINGS on Phil's blog - Phil's Earthlings. Brian Williams, TV Producer/Director, Brian Williams Television, Inc. I’ve known the author of EARTHLINGS for more than 30 years. Always found him to be a good conversationalist with a slightly twisted sense of humor. Clearly, I never really got to...

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