The
Adventure of the Deceased Scholar
The
Early Case Files of Sherlock Holmes Book 3
by
Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Genre:
Historical Mystery
Award- winning author and recognized Sherlockian scholar Liese Sherwood-Fabre’s third novel in “The Early Case Files of Sherlock Holmes” follows the young detective to London for the spring holiday. This CIBA first-place mystery and mayhem winner has been described by bestselling author Gemma Halliday as “a classic in the making” and Kirkus Reviews as “a multifaceted and convincing addition to Sherlock-ian lore.”
A
tragedy during the 1868 Oxford-Cambridge Boat race puts Mycroft
Holmes’ reputation on the line.
When
Mycroft Holmes identifies a drowning victim, he is drawn into a
situation that could destroy not only Lord Surminster's name, but his
own reputation as well. If ruled a suicide, the lord’s assets will
be returned to the Crown, leaving his mother and siblings destitute.
Should that happen, the victim’s sister has threatened to drag
Mycroft’s good name through the mire. Will Sherlock be able
determine what happened before more than one family is destroyed?
Liese
Sherwood-Fabre has won awards for her thrillers, romance, and
literary short stories, and NYT bestselling author Steve Berry
describes her writing as "gimmick-free, old-fashioned
storytelling."
In
the second grade, she knew she was destined to write when she got an
A+ for her story about Dick, Jane, and Sally's ruined picnic. After
obtaining her PhD from Indiana University, she joined the federal
government and had the opportunity to work and live internationally
for more than fifteen years. She draws upon these experiences to
endow her characters with deep conflicts and emotions.
Sherlock and Scotland Yard
By the time Dr. Watson meets Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective already had a relationship with Scotland Yard and its inspectors. In the first of Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales, A Study in Scarlet, he introduces two of the detectives—Gregson and Lestrade—who appear in many of the subsequent stories. By the time this adventure appeared in print, Scotland Yard was known as one of the world’s most modern and efficient police forces, and its professional traditions carry on even today.
For many around the world, the name “Scotland Yard” is synonymous with the whole of British law enforcement, but its actual scope is more limited. In 1829, a number of different police patrols and forces were consolidated into a single Metropolitan Police Force, which had responsibility for all London, except for the City of London who maintained its own. The new force’s headquarters were housed at 4 Whitehall Place, but the public entrance for the station was actually in the back and opened onto an area called the “Great Scotland Yard.” Over time, the area and the detective force became synonymous. Even when the force moved out of the building, the name followed them to “New Scotland Yard.”
The “Scotland” of “Scotland Yard” appears to have its origins prior to the 1500s when an English king provided land to a Scottish king to build lodgings for use when visiting London. “Hostilities” between the two prevented any construction, but the land was used as an encampment by Scottish contingencies until the two countries were united under the British monarchy. The street running to the side of this yard came to be known as “Great Scotland Yard,” and was attached to the police force three hundred years later.
The force’s first detectives appeared in 1842. While some resistance appeared in the use of officers in plain clothes (resembling to some an undercover state police), thanks to Charles Dickens, these men soon entered the public’s imagination. Dickens accompanied one detective on his patrol and described some of his cases in newspaper articles. The officer also appeared in fictional form in the novel Bleak House.
In my latest novel, The Adventure of the Deceased Scholar, a young Sherlock Holmes meets his first Scotland Yarder in the character of Inspector Roggens. If you play around with the letters in this name, you might find the name of another from that same force. Can you guess it?
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