The Perils of Sherlock Holmes (18 page)

T
hanks go to Jon Lellenberg, veteran editor, Sherlockian, and member of the board of directors that oversees the Conan Doyle Estate, for his part in bringing most of the stories in this book to the public for the first time, and for permission to use the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The thing would not be possible but for the genius of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose works still shine, and are found in every well-stocked library on earth. The inscription on his headstone, taken from his knighthood epic,
The White Company
, applies to him yet:

BLADE STRAIGHT

STEEL TRUE

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Copyright © 2012 by Loren D. Estleman
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ISBN 10: 1-4405-4414-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-4414-9
eISBN 10: 1-4405-4520-0
eISBN 13: 978-1-4405-4520-7

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Estleman, Loren D.

    The perils of Sherlock Holmes / Loren D. Estleman.

       p. cm.

    ISBN 978-1-4405-4414-9 (hardcover) – ISBN 1-4405-4414-X (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4405-4520-7 (ebook) – ISBN 1-4405-4520-0 (ebook)

1. Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) 2. Detective and mystery stories, English. 3. Private investigators–England–Fiction. I. Title.

    PS3555.S84P47 2012

    813’.54–dc23

2012025207

Grateful acknowledgment to Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. for permission to use the Sherlock Holmes characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, corporations, institutions, organizations, events, or locales in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. The resemblance of any character to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental.

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