The Secret Predicament of the Stupid Banker (The Unexpurgated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 11)

The Secret Predicament of the Stupid Banker specifications:

  • Hardback
  • 179mm x 122mm
  • 82 pp
  • ISBN 9781838104504
  • Readership, general
100 Items
£8.99

 

Security policy

 

Delivery policy

 

Return policy

Dr. Watson was the chronicler of every Sherlock Holmes adventure published in The Strand magazine between 1887 and 1927.

He reported them with honesty in the bluff, army-style of a military doctor, so frank in their account of human behaviour that they were too risque for the morals of Victorian England. George Newnes, the editor, purged each story before its publication. Newnes also replaced Watson's jocular illustrations with Sidney Paget's more innocuous portrayals. Newnes deleted everybody's backgrounds but in these accounts Watson reveals Holmes's family: his father, Professor Julian Cornelius Bortzoy Holmes; his wife, Wendy; his sister, Rachel, as well as Mycroft. Watson also exposes Mrs. Hudson's property empire and he tells us how Professor Moriarty became "the Napoleon of crime." Some of this new material is shocking, even by today's standards! Book 11 synopsis, Holmes and Watson are given an early morning surprise when a well-dressed man visits 221B Baker Street. Events of the night before have sent the City banker into a frenzy and he starts to tear his hair out in front of the great detective. Holmes and Watson travel to south London, to the modest home of their new client, only to find a dispirate family at loggerheads over something that went bump in the night. The finger of guilt is pointed firmly at the client’s son but Holmes thinks differently and launches himself into the mystery whilst Watson evokes an extraordinary metal-bending practice from his army days in India, with calamitous results. The adventure ends with an initiation for Dr. Watson to The Diogenes Club.

100 Items

Data sheet

Illustrated
Juliet Snape
Author
N P Sercombe
Publisher
EVA BOOKS

Specific References

ISBN
9781838104504
Comments (0)
No customer reviews for the moment.

16 other products in the same category: