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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Written by John Joseph Adams

    Narrated by Simon Vance and Anne Flosnik

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    “Once you elminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

    Twenty-eight tales of mystery and imagination detailing the further exploits of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, as told by today’s greatest storytellers:

    “A Sherlockiana Primer” by Christopher Roden
    “The Horror of the Many Faces” by Tim Lebbon
    “The Case of the Bloodless Sock” by Anne Perry
    “The Adventure of the Other Detective” by Bradley H. Sinor
    “A Scandal in Montreal” by Edward D. Hoch
    ”The Adventure of the Field Theorems” by Vonda N. McIntyre
    “The Adventure of the Death-Fetch” by Darrell Schweitzer
    “The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland” by Mary Robinette Kowal
    “The Adventure of the Mummy’s Curse” by H. Paul Jeffers
    “The Things That Shall Come Upon Them” by Barbara Roden
    “Murder to Music” by Anthony Burgesss
    “The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor” by Stephen Baxter
    “Mrs. Hudson’s Case” by Laurie R. King
    “The Singular Habits of Wasps” by Geoffrey A. Landis
    “The Affair of the 46th Birthday” by Amy Myers
    “The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey” by Peter Tremayne
    “The Vale of the White Horse” by Sharyn McCrumb
    “The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger” by Michael Moorcock
    “The Adventure of the Lost World” by Dominic Green
    “The Adventure of the Antiquarian’s Niece” by Barbara Hambly
    “Dynamics of a Hanging” by Tony Pi
    “Merridew of Abominable Memory” by Chris Roberson
    “Commonplaces” by Naomi Novik
    “The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape” by Rob Rogers
    “The Adventure of the Green Skull” by Mark Valentine
    “The Human Mystery” by Tanith Lee
    “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman
    “You See But You Do Not Observe” by Robert J. Sawyer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 19, 2010
    ISBN9781441839114
    Author

    John Joseph Adams

    John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).

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      Very enjoyable read indeed and good to get to grips with alternative stories of the great detective. I am a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and will pass on my enjoyment of this book to them?