"The members of the Society of Infallible Detectives were just sitting around and being socially infallible in their rooms in Fakir Street when President Holmes strode in. He was much saturniner than usual, and the others at once deduced there was something toward."
Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, A.J. Raffles, The Thinking Machine and many others assemble for five cases of mischief, mayhem, and murd... well, not quite murder. But certainly mischief and mayhem. Publishing in newspapers and magazines from 1912 to 1917, mystery writer Carolyn Wells provides us with five comical tales of the assembled literary detectives of her day. All five stories are accompanied by their original illustrations, including three by classic Sherlock artist Frederic Dorr Steele. The stories are:
* The Adventure of the Mona Lisa
* Sure Way to Catch Every Criminal. Ha! Ha!
* The Adventure of the Lost Baby
* The Adventure of the Clothes-Line
* Cherchez la Femme
Language
English
Pages
53
Format
Kindle Edition
Sherlock Holmes and the International Society of Infallible Detectives: Five Classic Pastiches of Holmes and His Rivals
"The members of the Society of Infallible Detectives were just sitting around and being socially infallible in their rooms in Fakir Street when President Holmes strode in. He was much saturniner than usual, and the others at once deduced there was something toward."
Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, A.J. Raffles, The Thinking Machine and many others assemble for five cases of mischief, mayhem, and murd... well, not quite murder. But certainly mischief and mayhem. Publishing in newspapers and magazines from 1912 to 1917, mystery writer Carolyn Wells provides us with five comical tales of the assembled literary detectives of her day. All five stories are accompanied by their original illustrations, including three by classic Sherlock artist Frederic Dorr Steele. The stories are:
* The Adventure of the Mona Lisa
* Sure Way to Catch Every Criminal. Ha! Ha!
* The Adventure of the Lost Baby
* The Adventure of the Clothes-Line
* Cherchez la Femme