Holmes of Baker Street is now available on Amazon!
Short stories of Sherlock Holmes in the Conan Doyle style and tradition.
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From the author who brought you:
* Sherlock 6
* Cold-Hearted Murder
* The Canadian Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes of Baker Street is available on Amazon!
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Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district in the City of Westminster in London. It used to run south from Regent's Park meeting Marylebone Road to the north.
Baker Street was laid out in the 18th century by the builder William Baker. In 1835 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum opened on Baker St.
Baker St. crosses several streets including Oxford St., a busy retail thoroughfare, and the street where Dr. Watson was known to buy his boots.
When the Holmes stories were published, Baker St. did not go up to 221.
I live in Windsor, Ontario, and just over 160 km northeast is London, Ontario which has its own Baker Street.
The title of my new book, Holmes of Baker Street, came to me when I was rereading The Adventure of the Reigate Squires (1893). Inspector Forrester said, “I hope I don’t intrude, but we hear Mr. Holmes of Baker Street is here.” After reading that, I was struck that those four words were as good a title as any.
Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street (1978)
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There are many reasons why Sherlock Holmes continues to attract legions of followers from around the world and has for over one hundred years.
Fans enjoy the observations and deductions that are essential to any good detective story. The crimes and/or mysteries themselves are often uniquely bizarre, or as John Scott Eccles put it, grotesque. The setting of Victorian England with its cobblestone streets and alleyways, its gas lamps and gloom, and the rhythmic clip-clop of horses’ hooves and cab wheels scraping the pavement are all charming elements of a bygone age that we romanticize.
More than any of those aspects is Sherlock Holmes himself and all the characteristics that make Holmes… Holmes.
There is also the detective’s own unique character traits; his moodiness, his cries of triumph, his silence during intense concentration, and his manners, both Victorian and Bohemian.
The man was a veritable walking contradiction; tidy and sloppy, lazy and energetic, compassionate, and uncaring.
He may have known many people, but he only had one close friend.
His knowledge was wide-ranging and had a breadth of view. Holmes occupied the top position of his profession; indeed, he may have been the only unofficial consulting detective in the world.
He was an excellent detective and was able to find answers when few even knew the questions. But Holmes was not perfect, and that only endeared him to us even more.
Holmes of Baker Street is available in book and Kindle, only on Amazon!
Stephen Gaspar's books can be found on Amazon!
Holmes of Baker Street has tales referred to in the original stories:
The Abergavenny Murders
The Tired Captain
The Abbey School
The Disappearance of James Phillimore
The Terrible Death of Crosby the Banker
The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech
The Loss of the British Barque Sophie Anderson
And more! There are bonus features as well.
In Holmes of Baker Street, we see new villains and the return of old clients. Available in book and Kindle!
From the author of:
The Canadian Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Cold-Hearted Murder
Sherlock 6
Holmes of Baker Street is available on Amazon!
Click here!
We should also remember our history and those who came before us to shape our country and who sacrificed so much for it.
There is a recent trend to erase or ignore our history and regard it as something less than perfect or something to be embarrassed about.
No country's history is perfect, as no family's history is perfect. But it is ours. Our history has helped shape us, shape our nation. Our history has helped us get to where we are.
This Canada Day, let us remember our past as part of who we are.
Barclay Of The Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly formed North-West Mounted Police in 1874. Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto travels west “to keep the peace and maintain the right of all.” Barclay is an educated young man who quotes everything from Byron to The Bible, and from Shakespeare to Shelley.
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My son, Tom, created this promotional video for my latest book, Barclay of the Mounted. In it, he used a scene from Pony Soldier (1952) starring Tyrone Power.
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