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Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns by [Eddie Maguire, Roger Jaynes, Emanuel E Garcia]

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Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns includes three separate Sherlock Holmes adventures, each ingenious and entertaining in their own right.

At some stage during each of the short stories someone or something, which at first appears trivial, reveals itself to be far more significant - like a pawn which is said to be ‘poisoned’ in the game of chess.

The first, entitled The Mystery of Hamlet , by Emmanuel E. Garcia is set in 1938. Holmes is considerably older but his appetite for deciphering mysteries remains as strong as ever. He applies his science of deduction to literature and the possibility of a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet.

The second story, Roger Jayne’s The Belgravian Letter , settles in the more familiar surroundings of London and concerns the death of Sir Arthur Wilcox, a high-ranking civil servant. Sir Arthur was set to depart for Athens on an important diplomatic mission; however the discovery of his dead body next to his open safe sparks fears regarding the safety of the Government. Nonetheless, Sherlock Holmes has other ideas.

Finally, Eddie Maguire provides an extraordinary account in The Highcliffe Invitation . Holmes and Watson are invited to Dorset for the weekend unaware that the Kaiser wishes to meet them. Soon some of the Kaiser's personal possessions go missing and what starts as a theft culminates in a potential assassination plot.

Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns is a gripping collection of British murder mysteries.

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22 Dec. 2015
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019QG38G6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books (22 Dec. 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4407 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 169 pages

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SJ Coombs

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2016

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Dreadful. Story 1: a loosely camouflaged diatribe on who wrote Shakespeare's plays and Holmes as an adulterer disguised (poorly) as an investigation. Story 2: apparently written by an illiterate who doesn't know the difference between voracious and vociferous. Story 3: just not very good unfortunately.

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Raven

The Title has Nothing to Do with the Book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2016

Sherlock Holmes and the Three Poisoned Pawns by Emanuel E. Garcia, Roger Jaynes and Eddie Maguire

My thanks to Georgina Cutler of Endeavor Press for my review Kindle™ copy of this book!

This volume consists of three short novelettes.

“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet” by Emanuel E. Garcia

Holmes has retired to the Sussex Downs to keep bees. Watson has come for a visit. He finds Holmes playing violin while Mrs. Grant—who takes care of Holmes’ house and is the local Vicar’s wife—plays piano. Holmes seems glad to see Watson, because he has made a discovery that he wants Watson to prepare for writing.

The question of whether Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to The Bard is much debated. Holmes thinks he has discovered a secret lying within Hamlet. According to Holmes, something is truly rotten in Denmark.
This one was to be honest, boring. That is until the final scene and one sees why Holmes spends so much time on this deduction concerning Hamlet.

I give this story three stars…

“Sherlock Holmes and the Belgravian Letter” by Roger Jaynes

It is August of the year 1895. Sir Arthur Wilcox has been found shot dead in his home at Cadogan Place, and the matter could be politically important. Holmes will solve the case, but this time he may have crossed boundaries best left uncrossed…

The story builds nicely. The final reveal is rather neat, but a little expected.

I give this story three stars…

“Sherlock Holmes and the Highcliffe Invitation” by Eddie Maguire

Holmes and Watson are invited by the Colonel, Honourable Sir Edward Stuart-Wortley to his home for the weekend to meet an esteemed guest. As it turns out, this guest is His Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm.

The Kaiser is trying to find out if Holmes is as good as Watson’s stories claim. And apparently, some people in British society might wish harm to the Kaiser…

The introduction of Von Bork at the end was a nice touch.

I give this story three stars…

As a volume this book is somewhat weak. Three stars is the maximum I feel comfortable in giving it.

Quoth the Raven…

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Ye Olde Ed

Ingenious and entertaining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2009

In "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Hamlet", Emanuel E Garcia has Holmes reveal, in almost Freudian fashion, who is really responsible for the destruction of Prince Hamlet and the end of his dynasty. Naturally not a tale of action, the narrative is set in 1938, when the detective and the doctor are well advanced in years, and there's a curious and, to me, slightly distasteful coda. "Sherlock Holmes and the Belgravian Letter" by Roger Jaynes takes us back to the iconic year 1895. The Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, has been murdered and certain important - and compromising - documents are missing, but there are deeper matters still to be uncovered. Eddie Maguire, in "Sherlock Holmes and the Highcliffe Invitation", brings Holmes and Watson to a house-party in 1907, where the principal guest, Kaiser Wilhelm II, is the victim of a strange theft and an assassination attempt. (Mention of a newspaper called "The Clarion" sent me to my reference shelves, because there really was a paper of that name - but it would never have promoted the Kaiser as "a great friend of our country". It was a socialist weekly, much influenced by the philosophy of William Morris.) All three stories in "Three Poisoned Pawns" are ingenious and entertaining.

Roger Johnson, Editor of "The Sherlock Holmes Journal"

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