Constable crime
5 total works
In the fourth of Barrie Roberts'' Conan Doyle pastiches, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in the murky world of international secret intelligence services in an attempt to foil a plot to ruin Queen Victoria''s Jubilee.'
A young constable arrives from the West of England, telling Sherlock Holmes about a vagrant''s murder confession, which his sergeant is ignoring. This saves Holmes from inactivity and a heatwave in London.'
Aussie social historian Sheila McKenna is in the UK to research a book when she buys an old penny - one that had been used as a farewell token by a convict about to be transported. Starting from the inscription on the coin, she sets out to track down the convict's family, but soon someone is trying to stop her.
