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    Sherlock Holmes And the Napped Children
    Sherlock Holmes And the Napped Children
    Sherlock Holmes And the Napped Children
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    Sherlock Holmes And the Napped Children

    By Phillip Duke

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    Blond and blue-eyed little girls are being napped all over London, and Police Inspector Lestrade has no choice but to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes investigates, and applying his astonishing abilities of observation and logical deduction, determines where the next napping will occur. A police trap is laid, and the napper is caught, but takes poison and so cannot be questioned.

    Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has bungled the case, and now the children are irrretrievably lost. But after thinking about it all night, Holmes deduces a different, quite novel approach. With the help of  Watson it is applied, and it works! The children are located and rescued, and the case is closed, to the satisfaction of everyone  except Sherlock Holmes,.who cannot forgive himself for his mistake. Genius requires perfection and will settle for nothing less.

    Due to the novel method Holmes and Watson apply to solve this case, it is probably the most unusual, and one of the most interesting, and possibly controversial., of all Sherlock Holmes's cases.

    If you enjoy reading Sherlock Holmes detective mysteries you will like reading this book. With 8 illustrations.

    With my best regards,

    Phillip Dike

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhillip Duke Ph.D.
    Release dateMar 13, 2013
    ISBN9781497775060
    Sherlock Holmes And the Napped Children
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    Phillip Duke

    Phillip Duke B.S., Ph.D. is a graduate of UCLA with the B.S. in Chemistry, and of USC with the Ph,D. in Experimental Pathology/Biochemistry.  Now retired, he writes on various aspects of life. His most popular titles:are: Jack the Ripper vs. Sherlock Holmes HEROIN God's Own Medicine Folly of the Hydrogen Bomb Starship To New Earth Now Karma GOLDEN SHOWERS Stories by Phyllis All 26 published titles are described on Philduke.weebly.com.  Any of  Dr. Phil's ebooks will be gifted to you on  request, simply email drpduke@wmconnect.com. All readers are invited to contact Dr. Phil Duke by email. An ancient saying- "The mills of the Gods grind very slowly, but they grind very fine." Buena suerta, y vaya con Dios!  

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      Book preview

      Sherlock Holmes And the Napped Children - Phillip Duke

      Sherlock Holmes

      And

      The Napped Children

      By

      Phillip Duke Ph.D.

      Written in the Victorian style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

      Copyright © 2012 Phillip Duke Ph.D. all rights reserved.

      9501 Words.

      With 7 Illustrations.

      Synopsis

      Blonde and blue-eyed little girls between the ages of 9 and 10 are being napped (kidnapped) in London, and Chief Of Detectives at Scotland Yard Inspector Lestrade has been forced to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. The children just seem to disappear; one minute they are here, and the next they are gone. There are no ransom notes, and no one has seen or heard anything unusual.

      When Sherlock Holmes and Watson interview nanny Rose whose child was taken; she has seen nothing unusual. But when Holmes asks her to relate what she saw that was usual, she mentions that a fat old lady was in the area. Sherlock Holmes’s investigation reveals that the fat old lady is key to the case.

      Holmes’s investigation pinpoints where the next napping will occur, and a trap is laid to arrest the napper. The trap is successful and the napper is caught in it, but when the napper sees all is lost, he takes poison and dies before questioning can begin.

      Sherlock Holmes believes he should have anticipated this possibility, and by not doing so he has irretrievably bungled the case. There is no remaining way to possibly locate the napped children. They are lost.

      He and Watson return home having failed, but after spending most of the night thinking, Holmes comes up with a very unusual new way to approach solving the case. At his suggestion he and Watson apply the new approach together, and it turns out to be successful.

      This is another of the lost mystery cases of Sherlock Holmes. Although the case was solved, Sherlock Holmes felt he bungled it, and therefore he allowed Watson to write it up, but not to publish it until a hundred years after my death, when much that is a mystery now, will be clear as crystal then.

      The case was consigned with others of its kind to a safe lock box in the vault of England’s oldest banking establishment. During the course of two World Wars it was lost track of, but being recently found and coming into my hands, the case is now published. To publish it as quickly and inexpensively as possible, I am making it available as a Kindle ebook.

      Now for the first time ever you can read The Case Of Sherlock Holmes And The Napped Children. Sherlock Holmes forbid its publication because he felt the investigation was bungled; genius such as his requires absolute perfection, it will settle for nothing less. Read the case, and decide for yourself if Sherlock Holmes bungled it, or solved it in an unusual, exceptionally brilliant way. Certainly this is one of his most interesting, and most unusual cases.

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