by Edward McManus | Jan 8, 2021 | Sherlock
Stave the One Marley was dead to begin with, There was little doubt of all that. The coroner signed off the papers, And Scrooge had re-rented his flat. Yes, Marley slept deep in the graveyard, Struck down by the Finger of Fate, And...
by Edward McManus | Apr 22, 2020 | Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles Redux A Versification The Baskerville Estate Near the Moors and Grimpen Mire of Devonshire (As Envisioned by Nathalia Mikhalchuk, 1907) Chapter One: Introduction to the Moors:“When the wind blows cold o’er the moors at...
by Edward McManus | Apr 12, 2020 | Fiction
Is Sherlock Holmes Awake? A dismal night in London town, a world that’s turning upside down, no hope of help from kin or crown – Is Sherlock Holmes awake? For I heard the Professor’s plan, the Colonel saw me when I ran, but Holmes will help me if he...
by Edward McManus | Mar 19, 2020 | Fiction
Sherlock Holmes and The Closed Room Murder Mystery: The Vicar’s Last Homily Rev. Alfred E. Critchley, Vicar, St. Swithins BA, MA, Ed.D, DD, D.Min, J.C.D. 1824-1895 Preamble “Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a...