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  • The Last Notes From the Dispatch-box of John H. Watson M.D.
    Hugh Ashton
    The first of these, “The Case of the Russian Bear”, involves the British Government, as represented by Mycroft Holmes. The circumstances surrounding it are mentioned in “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax”, where Holmes mentions to Watson that it would be impossible for him to leave London while “old Abrahams” is in such danger. We are not told any more about Abrahams in ...
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    7,29 €

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Missing Necklace
    Hugh Ashton
    Miss Leticia Rabbit leaves her gold necklace on the grass outside her house one evening. When she gets up in themorning, it is gone!To help her get it back, she asks Sherlock Ferret, who lives with his well-whiskered friend Watson Mouse M.D. (aDoctor of Mousology) in rooms under Mrs. Hudson's baker's shop.Sherlock and Watson, and their friend Lestrade, who is a rhinocer...
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    6,21 €

  • The Adventure of the Lichfield Murder
    Hugh Ashton
    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 h...
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    4,77 €

  • The Darlington Substitution
    Hugh Ashton
    The deed box of Dr. John Watson, entrusted by him over a century ago to Cox & Co. of Charing Cross, and which made its way to Hugh Ashton in Kamakura, Japan, continues to yield treasure.The box proved to have a false bottom, under which lay the manuscript of a full-length adventure of Sherlock Holmes, in which the great detective needs all his cunning and detective powers to un...
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    7,58 €

  • Adventures from Watson’s Third Box
    Hugh Ashton
    Doctor John Watson tantalisingly informed us, in The Problem of Thor Bridge, that a box full of unpublished adventures of Sherlock Holmes had been left in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross. However, what Watson neglected to tell us was that more than one such box existed, containing accounts of the great detective which had hitherto remained unknown, save for cryptic hin...
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    15,35 €

  • The Tilling Smugglers
    Hugh Ashton
    The much-loved Mapp and Lucia novels of E.F.Benson are sadly too few in number. The Tilling Smugglers is the fifth in Hugh Ashton’s series which have satisfied the wishes of Mapp and Lucia fans around the world for more adventures of the famous pair. The first four books, written in the style of the originals, have been much praised and enjoyed .In this story, a new character f...
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    7,99 €

  • On the Other Side of the Sky
    Hugh Ashton
    Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a group of learned men in the English Midlands, the Lunar Society, works to bring science and reason to the world. In America, the colonists are starting to break away from Britain in the War of Independence. In France, relations between the King and the people are worsening, which will eventually result in the bloodshed of the Revolut...
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    15,39 €

  • A Tilling New Year
    Hugh Ashton
    Elizabeth Mapp-Flint seeks to regain her status as the leader of Tilling society by holding a New Year’s Eve party to which Lucia brings two unexpected and not entirely welcome guests, causing embarrassment, if not chaos. Elizabeth redoubles her social offensive by introducing an alternative to Tilling’s traditional games of bridge, brought back from India many years before by ...
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    7,07 €

  • La Lucia
    Hugh Ashton
    Mrs Emmeline Lucas, known to all as 'la Lucia', is the undisputed social and cultural leader of the quiet, but refined country village of Riseholme. Together with her husband, and her devoted courtier Georgie Pillson, she leads her subjects in hunts for Roman remains and fossils. Meanwhile two very different visitors arrive in the village, and the balance of Riseholme power is ...
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    7,10 €

  • Mapp’s Return
    Hugh Ashton
    Since the disaster that was her fiftieth birthday party, Elizabeth Mapp-Flint has been avoiding Tilling society. But just as she decides to re-enter the round of bridge parties and dainty teas, an unexpected visitor to Mallards throws her plans for a triumphant return as the social leader of Tilling into confusion.Lucia and Georgie, Diva, the Padre and Evie, the Wyses, and quai...
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    7,24 €

  • The Basuto
    Hugh Ashton
    Originally published in 1952 and as a second edition in 1967 this volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture, and reviews the developments and changes leading up to 1966 when Basutoland achieved independence as Lesotho. It describes in detail daily lives, the education and upbringing of children, initiation, marriage, ...
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    64,36 €

  • Unknown Quantities
    Hugh Ashton
    Eleven stories in a darker mood from Hugh Ashton, the acclaimed author of the Deed Box and Dispatch-box of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Here he explores the theme of the unknown that lurks behind our everyday world, waiting for its chance to escape and wreak havoc.The settings range from a 16th-century Italian galley, through a 19th century country house, to the author’s home ci...
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    5,17 €

  • The Adventure of the Bloody Steps
    Hugh Ashton
    Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from a vicar's wife in Staffordshire, telling him that she has seen the ghost of a young woman who was raped and murdered some sixty years previously. The body was carried up a flight of steps from the canal where shere it was found, and local legend has it that the unfortunate woman's ghost can be seen, and that the steps are still sta...
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    3,83 €

  • Balance of Powers
    Hugh Ashton
    The American Dream ain’t what it used to be, as Major Henry Gillette Powers, USMC, discovers on his return from Afghanistan. His sister and her family have disappeared, and their home has been repossessed, along with half the houses in the neighborhood. With the help of Jeanine, who has also lost her home, he learns fast what’s going on.What he unearths about the mortgage busin...
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    7,72 €

  • Beneath Gray Skies
    Hugh Ashton
    Brian Finch-Malloy: school chess and fencing champion, crack shot, former officer in the British Army’s Coldstream Guards, and private in the army of the Confederacy.He is now on the run from the British Secret Service, the Confederacy, and from Hermann Goering of the German National Socialist Workers' Party. Working with a group of Confederates and Germans, he must find a ...
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    11,00 €

  • At the Sharpe End
    Hugh Ashton
    When his business card is found in the pocket of a man who has died under the wheels of a train at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Kenneth Sharpe’s life takes a turn for the worse. The stakes start high, and rise higher, as Sharpe and his friends take on the might of the financial world against the backdrop of the 2008 Wall Street collapse, and the ruin of the global financial marke...
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    15,12 €

  • Without my Boswell
    Hugh Ashton
    Sherlock Holmes is well known to us through the adventures he shared with John Watson and related by the good doctor. But even before that fateful meeting when Holmes observed to the man who was to become his closest friend, “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive,” the world’s first consulting detective had already taken on and solved many baffling cases. This book relates five...
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    7,20 €

  • Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson M.D.
    Hugh Ashton
    Another discovery from the vaults of Cox and Co., the old London bank which had forwarded the Deed Box of John H Watson to the author last year. The Dispatch Box contains all manner of illuminating documents about Messrs. Holmes and Watson.Of particular interest are what the author refers to as The Affair of the Vatican Cameos, the Reigate Poisoning Case, with a shocking conclu...
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    9,76 €

  • Further Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson M.D.
    Hugh Ashton
    The second box (“the dispatch-box”) to be discovered in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross has been the source of even more discoveries concerning the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. Included in this volume are four tales, all referenced in the canonical originally published adventures:The Abernetty Horror: A bloody crime in a Welsh fishing village points to one see...
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    7,63 €

  • Tales of Old Japanese
    Hugh Ashton
    Tales of Old Japanese is a collection of five short stories of the older generation living in contemporary Japan. The author spent over 25 years living in the country, working as a writer and journalist. Some of his impressions of Japan and of the people who live there have been recorded in: Keiko's House: An old house, its history, and the history of those who have lived...
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    5,11 €

  • Red Wheels Turning
    Hugh Ashton
    British secret agent Brian Finch-Malloy (described by one reviewer as 'a 1920s James Bond') was introduced in Beneath Gray Skies, set in an alternate history where the American Civil War never happened. Red Wheels Turning takes place in the same historical timeline, and features some of the same characters. With a backdrop of Tsarist Russia prior to the events described in Bene...
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    7,72 €

  • The Death of Cardinal Tosca
    Hugh Ashton
    A Papal legate, on a secret mission to England from Rome, is discovered dead. How did he die? And why? Mycroft Holmes, master of many of the secrets of the realm, calls in his younger brother Sherlock to discover the answer to these questions.When he arrives at the scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes discovers that the Cardinal's corpse has been moved – inside a locked room...
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    7,73 €

  • The Untime & The Untime Revisited
    Hugh Ashton
    The Untime is a state beyond space and time, discovered by Professor Rémy Lamartine in the 1890s. His daughter Agathe, and her beloved Jules Gauthier, a reporter on a Paris magazine, become concerned when Lamartine goes missing.Inside the Untime, they discover horrors beyond our imagining – hideous creatures which can destroy the sanity of their victims, and which seem intent o...
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    10,08 €

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Poisoned Pond
    Hugh Ashton
    When Mrs. Fieldmouse visits Sherlock Ferret and his friend Watson Mouse M.D. and tells them that her twelve children have all fallen sick, Sherlock has to find out what has been going on. Together with Doctor Solomon Sloth, he discovers the cause of their illness.Then Lestrade, a rhinoceros friend (though not a very big one) tells him of mysterious doings at the pond. Sherlock ...
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    6,40 €

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Multiplying Masterpieces
    Hugh Ashton
    Sherlock Ferret and his well-whiskered friend Watson Mouse M.D. visit the Museum, where they look at many paintings, including the famous Ferret Before a Mirror, by Pablo Pigasso. Sherlock discovers that, though it is meant to be an old picture, the painting in the Museum is new! What is the secret of this, and the other paintings by Pigasso? Sherlock and Watson investigate, to...
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    5,87 €

  • Mr. Sherlock Holmes - Notes on Some Singular Cases
    Hugh Ashton
    The boxes once belonging to Doctor Watson containing notes related to cases and adventures of his friend, Sherlock Holmes, are still not empty. Here we find five such adventures, four of which are mentioned in the original collections published through Watson's literary agent, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and brought together here. The Adventure of the Broken Door is mentioned...
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    7,16 €

  • Leo’s Luck
    Hugh Ashton
    The good news: Leo has finally walked out on his wife after years of misery.The bad news: he finds his girlfriend in bed with another man.The good news: he's got £3,000,000 in the bank.The bad news: the bank is in Japan, he has no money to get there, and the money isn't really his anyway.The good news: he's taken on as a Killer Rabbit.The bad news: he doesn't kn...
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    7,21 €

  • More from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D.
    Hugh Ashton
    Each of the tales I have selected to recount here was mentioned by Watson in previous adventures, but only in passing, and the sketchy references have long been a source of curious speculation by students of the work of Sherlock Holmes. The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness is one of the few cases recorded by Watson as being one that he introduced to Holmes (The Enginee...
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    6,19 €

  • Secrets from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D.
    Hugh Ashton
    The deed box of Dr. Watson, presented some time ago by a friend who rescued it from the archives of a London bank, continues to produce treasures. The stories in this collection, Secrets from the Deed Box of John H Watson MD, all represent some aspect of Holmes and his adventures that has previously been undiscovered. In many ways these are (with the possible exception of The B...
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    8,74 €

  • 1894
    Hugh Ashton
    1894 – the year that Sherlock Holmes returned to London, after the Great Hiatus that followed the plunge into the Reichenbach Falls. Doctor Watson, though astounded at his friend's reappearance, nonetheless retained his composure enough to record the adventures that he shared with the famous sleuth in that year. Though he alludes to many of them, he never presented these to...
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    8,56 €


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