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Highlights
- Every good city deserves a good murder ... and Lichfield is no exception.
- Author(s): Hugh Ashton
- 36 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
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A short adventure of Sherlock Holmes, written in the style of the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Book Synopsis
Every good city deserves a good murder ... and Lichfield is no exception. When Henry Taylor of Lichfield comes to 221B Baker Street with the news that his young wife has been murdered, apparently by his son from his first marriage, Sherlock Holmes takes the train from Euston to investigate. What he discovers comes as a surprise to everyone, except to (of course) Sherlock Holmes himself.
Hugh Ashton, a Lichfield resident, is the author of many volumes of Sherlock Holmes adventures, in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which have received praise as being true to the spirit of the original stories. He is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and the Watsonian Society. More on these stories at 221BeanBakerStreet.info
"Hugh Ashton is today's Arthur Conan Doyle." (Amazon review of The Lichfield Murder)
Review Quotes
"Hundreds of Holmes pastiches, ranging in quality from godawful to brilliant, are published every year. A few pastiche writers - Nicholas Meyer, June Thomson and Hugh Ashton, for example - sometimes are good enough to make you forget you're not reading the Master himself, having Watson narrate a lost but newly discovered story from some secret bank box or barrister's drawer." Dallas Morning News, 19 December 2014
"Hugh Ashton maintains his place as one of the best writers of new Sherlock Holmes stories, in both plotting and style." (The District Messenger, newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London)
" ...I would offer Hugh's own dialogue between Holmes and Watson after Sherlock displays his expertise at deducing details of a client's life before ever meeting them. Watson says, " You make it sound absurdly simple." Holmes replies, 'It is indeed absurdly simple, and yet I seem to be the only man in London--nay, in the whole kingdom--who seems capable of the feat.' Based on the number of authors who try and the few that succeed, Hugh Ashton makes something incredibly difficult look easy, and he 'seems to be the only man in the whole kingdom capable of the feat'." Dr. Philip C. Eyster, Consulting Sherlockian
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