The Kentish Manor Murders is a 1988 mystery detective novel by the British writer Julian Symons. A pastiche of the traditional Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, it is a sequel to the 1975 novel A Three-Pipe Problem.[1]
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Author | Julian Symons |
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Language | English |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1988 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Pages | 191 |
ISBN | 0140108726 |
Preceded by | A Three-Pipe Problem |
Plot
editSheridan Haynes, now famous for playing Holmes in a series of television adaptations, is invited to Castle Baskerville by Warren Waymark to perform some scenes in character. The eccentric millionaire Waymark, a fanatical Sherlockian, is a collector of anything related to the detective. Before his visit, Haynes is approached by a man claiming to have a genuine copy of previously unknown original Doyle story which he wants to sell to Waymark.
References
edit- ^ Mason, Bill. A Holmes by Any Other Name. Wildside Press, 2019. p. 96. ASIN B07L63CJ71. ISBN 1479441058
Bibliography
edit- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015. p. 300. ISBN 0312824181. OL 4437992M.</ref>
- Watt, Peter Ridgway; Green, Joseph (2017) [2003]. The Alternative Sherlock Holmes: Pastiches, Parodies and Copies. Routledge. ISBN 978-0754608820.
- Walsdorf, John J. & Allen, Bonnie J. Julian Symons: A Bibliography. Oak Knoll Press, 1996.