Sherlock Holmes & Barclay

 My latest book, Barclay of the Mounted, reveals my character Henry Barclay, a young man who joins the North-West Mounted Police in 1874. Readers of my Sherlock Holmes books will have read of Henry Barclay in all three of my Holmes books.

Though he is my own creation, readers first met Henry Barclay in The Canadian Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, when, in 1897, Holmes and Watson encountered adventures in Canada. In the chapter entitled Murder on the C.P. R. Holmes and Watson are travelling east by train after their cross-country journey across Canada and meet Barclay of the NWMP. A passenger is mysteriously murdered and the detectives join forces to solve it.

In my second Sherlock Holmes book, Cold-Hearted Murder, Holmes encounters a series of murders in London that has its origins during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territories. Barclay is stationed in the Yukon at the time and plays an integral part in the story.

Sherlock 6 is a series of  Holmes adventures based mostly on the London detective's unpublished cases. In the chapter entitled The Mortal Terror of Old Abrahams, Henry Barclay pays a visit to his friend Sherlock Holmes in London while Dr. Watson is away in Lausanne looking into the disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax. Holmes and Barclay team up again to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding a client of Holmes.

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