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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It's 1890. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson return to Baker Street after a night pursuing a vicious criminal. Inspector Lestrade is waiting for Holmes with a proposition of national importance. Lestrade tells Holmes that a school of detection has been formed to train a new breed of modern investigators that will serve in Great Britain and the Empire. Most students will become police officers. Some, however, will become bodyguards and spies. Holmes begins instructing his decidedly curious assortment of students from home and abroad. He does so with his customary gusto and inventiveness.Scotland Yard, in the main, allocates crimes to solve and Holmes mentors his students. Occasionally, he shadows them in disguise in order to assess or even directly test their abilities with creative scenarios he devises. Certain crimes investigated by the students might appear trivial, such as the re-positioning of an ornament atop a garden wall, yet it will transpire an assassin has moved the ornament to create good sightlines in order to commit murder with a sniper's rifle. Other mysteries are considered outside the domain of the police. For example, the inexplicable disappearance of a stone gargoyle, which is linked to an ancient family curse. Or a man suffering from amnesia who discovers that not only has he acquired a secret life but also gained an implacable enemy, too. Holmes, with the ever- trustworthy Doctor Watson in his wake, is kept busy with his students' cases, ranging from minor to serious, sometimes rectifying their mistakes and saving them from a variety of disasters.These eleven wonderful new adventures and intrigues include tales such as 'The Gargoyles of Killfellen House', 'Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden' and 'The Case of the Cannibal Club'. Sherlock Holmes teaches a piquant assortment of students the science of detection in an anthology of all-new stories by a dazzling array of writers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781472136879
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9781472136879
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Sherlock Holmes teaches a piquant assortment of students the science of detection in an anthology of all-new stories by a dazzling array of writers. Seller Inventory # B9781472136879
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 448 pages. 7.80x4.96x1.97 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __147213687X
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Book Description Condition: New. Sherlock Holmes teaches a piquant assortment of students the science of detection in an anthology of all-new stories by a dazzling array of writers. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781472136879
Book Description Condition: New. Sherlock Holmes teaches a piquant assortment of students the science of detection in an anthology of all-new stories by a dazzling array of writers. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781472136879
Book Description Softback. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket. First. A First UK edition B Format paperback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. New and unread. Edited by Simon Clark who also wrote the introduction, prologue and a story for the book. SYNOPSIS: "Holmes receives a most intriguing proposal. It is to found a school -for modern detectives, intelligent seekers of truth. Holmes's School for Detection is an astonishing one, boasting one of the most remarkable men of all time. Its students are presented with baffling mysteries, shocking crimes and all kinds of danger. Yet, always in the background, they have the wisest of mentors. The school's students take on a host of 'new cases' - The Adventure of the Avid Pupi' and The Case of the Cannibal Club among them - which imagine the great Sherlock Holmes as an educator of a new breed of investigators. They are detectives wedded to using the power of observation and the latest scientific techniques in order to become the most consummate of warriors in the fight against crime. These eleven new stories are written by: Simon Bestwick, Simon Clark, Cate Gardner, William Meikle, Steven Savile, Alison Littlewood, Saviour Parotta, Paul Finch, Guy Haley, Carole Johnstone, Nick Oldham." Packed Weight 380 gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. Seller Inventory # 11923
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 6666-HCE-9781472136879