Hugh Ashton

Notes on Some Singular Cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Five new Sherlock Holmes adventures, four of which are mentioned in the Canon, but untold by Watson. Detect with Holmes in The Adventure of the Broken Door (mentioned briefly in The Norwood Builder). Thrill to the lure of the mysterious Orient in The Adventure of the Green Dragon (obscurely referenced in The Cardboard Box). Find out why John Vincent Harden, a tobacco millionaire, is being persecuted (mentioned in the Solitary Cyclist). Discover a hitherto unseen aspect of London life with the Adventure of the Copper Pins (mentioned in The Five Orange Pips). And get a little sentimental with The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor, which is unusual, as it occurs some two and half years after His Last Bow, when Holmes and Watson are both serving their country in the Great War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: hughashton
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912605156
• Artikelnr.: 51392129

Autorenporträt

Hugh Ashton was born in the UK in 1956, and after graduation from university worked in the technology industry around Cambridge (the first personal computer he used was Sir Clive Sinclair's personal TRS-80) until 1988, when a long-standing interest in the country took him to Japan.
There he worked for a Japanese company producing documentation for electronic instruments and high-end professional audio equipment, helped to set up the infrastructure for Japan's first public Internet service provider, worked for major international finance houses, and worked on various writing projects, including interviewing figures in the business and scientific fields, and creating advertorial reports for Japanese corporations to be reprinted in international business magazines.
Along the way, he met and married Yoshiko, and also gained certificates in tea ceremony and iaido (the art of drawing a sword quickly).
In 2008, he wrote and self-published his first published novel, Beneath Gray Skies, an alternative history in which the American Civil War was never fought, and the independent Confederacy forms an alliance with the German National Socialist party. This was followed by At the Sharpe End, a techno-financial-thriller set in Japan at the time of the Lehman's crash, and Red Wheels Turning, which re-introduced Brian Finch-Malloy, the hero of Beneath Gray Skies, referred to by one reviewer as "a 1920s James Bond".
In 2012, Inknbeans Press of California published his first collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, Tales from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D., which was swiftly followed by many other volumes of Holmes' adventures, hailed by Sherlockians round the world as being true to the style and the spirit of the originals by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Inknbeans also published Tales of Old Japanese and other books by Ashton, including the Sherlock Ferret series of detective adventures for children. He and Yoshiko returned to the UK in 2016 for family reasons, where they now live in the Midlands cathedral city of Lichfield.
In December 2017, Inknbeans Press ceased to be, following the sudden death of the proprietor, chief editor and leading light. Since that time, Ashton has reclaimed the copyright of his work, and has republished it in ebook and paper editions, along with the work of several other former Inknbeans authors.
He continues to write Sherlock Holmes stories, as well as various other fiction and non-fiction projects, including...