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    Sherlock Holmes Investigates. The Lascar's Fate.
    Sherlock Holmes Investigates. The Lascar's Fate.
    Sherlock Holmes Investigates. The Lascar's Fate.
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    Sherlock Holmes Investigates. The Lascar's Fate.

    By Philip van Wulven

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    Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson explore secret tunnels and caverns, which lead them to the workshop of an inventor.
    Holmes displays some unexpected knowledge, and his surprising membership in an esoteric club enables him to collect incriminating evidence against a leader of a smuggling gang.
    The dastardly Lascar, Ravendra, appears, and a battle to the death allows Watson to show his mettle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip van Wulven
    Release dateJan 10, 2012
    ISBN9781465889201
    Sherlock Holmes Investigates. The Lascar's Fate.
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    Philip van Wulven

    Phil van Wulven was born in Africa, in a family who changed houses and schools, as well as countries, quite often. Landlords, Headmasters, and governments prefer you to leave places as you found them, he discovered. He has lived in Canada for quite a while now, where he is busy growing roots. He hates rejection almost as much as dejection.He likes trees, birds, sunsets, and all that, and is getting used to the idea that seeing a sunrise doesn’t mean he is on the way to work.He likes to read, write, drink beer, and fix stuff.

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      Sherlock Holmes Investigates. The Lascar's Fate. - Philip van Wulven

      Sherlock Holmes Investigates.

      The Lascar’s Fate.

      By Philip van Wulven

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      ©Philip van Wulven 2012

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      Recent world history and the concomitant advances in military technology have rendered moot the secrecy which previously encapsulated certain events that occurred during the visit Sherlock Holmes and myself made to Hampshire some years before the turn of the century. I can now, therefore, disclose details of our encounter with a remarkable inventor and our thrilling experiences while engaged in the process of assisting that gentleman with the testing of a certain artifact. This was, and of course still is, a technological and scientific tour de force with far reaching and significant military and commercial applications. Indeed, the military potential of his inventions imposed severe restrictions on any public report of that time. This has long been a source of frustration to me, as I found myself forced into silence regarding the actual inventions, and with a prohibition against any report of the events of those few days, subsequent to our successful resolution of the Voodoo Doll affair, our investigations regarding mayor Pink’s missing jewel, and the previously reported assistance we rendered to the Revenue Department in their efforts against the self-styled Free Trade Consortium.

      Since I now believe little purpose can be served by continued compliance with the strictures imposed at that time, I have published this narrative in hopes that Tobias Smeenk may finally receive some of that public acclaim he so richly deserves, that the public may rest easier for certain knowledge of the fate that befell the villainous Lascar, Ravendra, and that some light may be shed on yet other facets of that remarkable individual, Sherlock Holmes.

      We had just assisted Holmes’ acquaintance, judge Etherington, with an interdiction of a major smuggling operation, and were in the village of Kinson, near to Bournemouth. Almost the entire population of the hamlet was under arrest and large quantities of contraband were confiscated and in process of being removed to bonded warehouses in Southampton. There being little call for our assistance at that point, we decided to explore further in the system of man made tunnels and natural caverns that ran from the village for some distance in several directions. Our discovery of the secret entrances to this warren had led to this triumph of Her Majesty’s Revenuers over those who sought to flout the law of the land.

      Holmes said, I should like to return to the cavern we have just passed through, Watson. There was a side passage we did not explore, though I think others may have gone by that route, rather than along the one that leads to this village. We went past it in the large chamber, just after the area with the wall paintings.

      I was quite willing to return the way we had come, as matters in Kinson appeared to be currently rather uninteresting, with all efforts involved in bureaucratic processing, with recording numbers and descriptions of the goods, the names, ages, and descriptions of the captives, and taking preliminary statements. Not my personal cup of tea, and certainly of minimal interest to my friend, whose keen intellect sought always for the unique and challenging, the unsolved problem and the mystery.

      After a few words with the senior Coast guard, a Captain Young, I believe, we returned to the public house, and descended, by means of the iron pegs inset in the wall of the shaft below the cellar, to the cavern beneath.

      We took a lantern each, and I made sure to appropriate a coil of rope and a stick of chalk. I felt quite encumbered with these items, together with my Nepalese knife, my kukri, as the Gurkhas name

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