Sherlock Holmes: Repeat Business

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Lyn McConchie. Sherlock Holmes: Repeat Business

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This book is dedicated to author Michael Gilbert, who wrote some of the finest mysteries ever; and to Geoff Bradley, who has edited the inimitable CADS magazine for a very long time. Good friends and old stories are still the best.

And where the initial idea for a book or story comes from can often be a mystery in itself for an author. There is no mystery about this book. In 2004 Rinehart Potts sent me a newsletter, The Sherlockian Times. In that publication Caralyn Senter suggested that they might edit a theme anthology, that theme being a continuation of the stories of some of the major characters from the original tales.

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“The man Wilson has confessed that he knew James Melden was alive. It seems that James went to see him, privately offering to disappear again if Wilson would pay him a large sum of money in cash. He suggested that if he were not paid he would reappear to claim his wife and daughter back publicly. When Wilson still balked, Melden made it clear he was aware of his daughter’s impending marriage and also that this would be called off if the groom’s parents came to know the girl’s mother was a bigamist.”

“The blackguard!”

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