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Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson: A Peek into Watson's Dispatch Box: Nine New Tales of Mystery & Suspense from the Author of Ten Steps from Baker Street Paperback – May 24, 2024

by Thomas A. Burns Jr. (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
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If you enjoyed Thomas A. Burns, Jr.’s immensely successful volume of canonical Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Ten Steps from Baker Street, you’ll be looking for more from him. Wait no longer! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Peek into Dr. Watson’s Dispatch Box contains nine new tales spanning Holmes’s career from his early days in Montague Street to his working retirement on the Sussex Downs. Embark on another extraordinary journey with England's most iconic duo, with danger lurking on every fog-shrouded corner. Follow Holmes and Watson through the streets of Victorian London as they confront an evil from the Orient in His Own Hangman, save the city from a terrible pandemic in The Mystery at Forest Hill Station, and hunt a group of vicious killers in The Crossbow Murders. You’ll find that each story holds a new revelation in the enduring saga of Holmes and Watson, which you’ll remember long after the book is finished.
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    May 24, 2024
  7. ISBN-13
    979-8987209974
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D48F89BX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tekrighter, LLC
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 24, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8987209974
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 18 years
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
  • Customer Reviews:
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Thomas A. Burns, Jr. is the author of the Natalie McMasters Mysteries.

He was born and grew up in New Jersey, attended Xavier High School in

Manhattan, earned B.S degrees in Zoology and Microbiology at Michigan

State University and a M.S. in Microbiology at North Carolina State

University. He currently resides in Wendell, North Carolina. As a kid,

Tom started reading mysteries with the Hardy Boys, Ken Holt and Rick

Brant, and graduated to the classic stories by authors such as A. Conan

Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex

Stout, to name a few. Tom has written fiction as a hobby all of his

life, starting with Man from U.N.C.L.E. stories in marble-backed

copybooks in grade school. He built a career as technical, science and

medical writer and editor for nearly thirty years in industry and

government. Now that he's truly on his own as a novelist, he's excited

to publish his own mystery series, as well as to contribute stories

about his second most favorite detective to the MX

anthology of New Sherlock Holmes Stories.

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More than a detective anthology, Dispatch is a pean to the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes and his resourceful sidekick, Doctor Watson. Thomas J. Burns Jr. provides a unique window into England in the fading Victorian age. From high society to the dregs of London while regaling us with compelling who dunnits, fascinating personalities, and interesting, if not exotic, locales. Rich descriptions of people, places, and things only add to the mystery and the excitement as the pair of sleuths take down the high, and the low on cases that leave London's Metropolitan Police baffled. The series of short cases also depict the arc of the pair's relationship as their lives move toward their twilight years, with Watson becoming a married man and Holmes retiring from Baker Street to become a country squire. The final caper is a spy case set during the opening years of The Great War and provides a taste of how the brilliant team may spend their final years—as patriots quietly serving King and country.
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  • Skip Dyer
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent anthology for fans of Sherlock Holmes
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024
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    Author Thomas Burns has compiled a fun and interesting collection of short stories for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. This, his second such anthology, continues on with nine stories that are simultaneously clever and compelling. Most notably, the author combines all the authentic components of the time - vocabulary, location, manners - to paint a believable portrait of the world in which Holmes and Watson plied their trades. I found this to be a very entertaining collection and recommend it to anyone who wants to enjoy new stories of old, familiar friends.
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  • John Molino
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2025
    Tom Burns hits another home run with this Sherlock Holmes pastiche. A great story teller gives us additional short stories featuring the classic detective and Doctor Watson. Well worth your time and money.
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  • Margie Deck
    3.0 out of 5 stars A colorful and energetic collection
    Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2024
    If a reader does not approach these stories with the idea that the author writes Doylean pastiche, he or she might well enjoy these action filled tales featuring Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Mr. Burns puts these characters to work solving intricate plots in various clever ways in London and beyond.
    His Holmes and Watson do not interact or talk very much like those of Doyle’s originals but that does not make them uninteresting or wrong—just different. Long time readers of Doyle’s work might find some of the explanations and descriptions to be perhaps unnecessary, such as those about St. Bart’s, Simpson’s restaurant or the Victorian Workhouses. Readers newer to Holmes’s world will find the explanations helpful and enlightening.
    As with all story collections, some stories are stronger than the others. This reader recommends “The Mystery at Forrest Hill Station” as perhaps the most well-constructed of the nine. Mr. Burns has an extensive vocabulary that he puts to good use, especially in describing the sights and smells of various locations; some readers may find the use of many somewhat uncommon words to be a little tiring. The first eight lines of the book included the unexpected rooves, aestival, miasma, effluvium and foetor. This long-time Doyle aficionado had a hard time imagining Dr. Watson using a word like adumbrated but certainly all things are possible.
    The author has obviously worked very hard to bring this energetic collection to life and should be congratulated for its launch.
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  • L. D. Roy the Junior
    5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Writing
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
    This is one very well written book! If you are a fan of Holmes and Watson then this read is an absolute must! As the title states, the writing is simply spectacular. A well-researched and entertaining book!
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  • Eric Gibson
    5.0 out of 5 stars New tales from familiar old friends.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
    Burns has created a quality addition to the lore of Sherlock Holmes. His prose is just the right amount of florid for the setting and Sherlock's often surprising grit is on display. I was caught up instantly in the first story, an early case when a younger Holmes had few connections and fewer resources. This first is from Sherlock's point of view, but most are from Watson's. This was a well executed book of short stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's setting is so familiar from books and movies that very little worldbuilding is needed. A reader can be dropped into Victorian London with a few well chosen words and the writer can get right to the mysteries. Burns does this well, adding his own interpretation of the character's motivations while keeping the familiar procedurals in place for old fans of the genre. The stories themselves are intriguing, bite-size, and do a fine job of showing Holmes as a singular light of reason in a corrupt and inequitable city.
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  • Jeffrey Zatlin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well done.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2024
    I wasn't sure I was going to like or appreciate new Sherlock Holmes stories unless Arthur Conan Doyle resurrected with an urge to write. But I was happily immersed in the late 19th century London from the get go. And I liked the arc of the stories, too. From Sherlock's rough start to get himself established, and through the course of his career, the stories in this book were wonderful. They entertained, and the period, and the adventures, and the interaction between Mr. Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson were enlightening, insightful, humorous, and really, what is not to enjoy with this work? It's fun, it's interesting, it's well-written and well researched. Go ahead, do yourself a favor. Read it!
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  • David Gordon
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Collection of Holmes Tales in the Doyle Tradition
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2024
    A Wonderful Collection of Holmes Tales in the Doyle Tradition

    Thomas Burns has written several wonderful Sherlock Holmes short stories in the Arthur Conan Doyle Tradition.

    But what may be surprising is that the mysteries and Holmes solving them were not the best part of the stories. Be it domestic abuse, neglect of the poor, and the plight of the down and out, Burns really strikes a cord on the social commentary contained in these tales.

    He also shows his imagination in tales that show the inspiration for Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and historical intrigue during the first year of World War One.

    There were some stories where I could picture Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, and Ian McClellan (who all played Holmes on the big and small screen) in these tales depending on the circumstances.

    Good job.
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