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    The Sherlock Holmes Caper: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #15
    The Sherlock Holmes Caper: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #15
    The Sherlock Holmes Caper: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #15
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    The Sherlock Holmes Caper: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #15

    By Gene Grossman

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    In this 15th adventure in the series, Peter has no client to defend. Instead, he is being taunted by some strange clues that may lead to an upcoming crime.

    His ex-wife, the district attorney, has asked him to assist it determining whether or not the alleged clues will result in a crime, or are just the efforts of a prankster.

    Suzi's dog Bernie may have accidentally solved this case for everyone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMagic Lamp Press
    Release dateMar 18, 2010
    ISBN9781452305806
    The Sherlock Holmes Caper: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #15
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    Gene Grossman

    GENE GROSSMAN was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the North side neighborhood of Albany Park, where he attended Hibbard Elementary and Von Steuben High School.He pursued majors in psychology, chemistry and mathematics at Wright Junior College, Roosevelt University and Illinois Institute of Technology - all the while working his way through high school and college by playing piano in clubs on Chicago's then-famous "Rush Street."After moving to Southern California, he worked his way through law school playing piano in night clubs and appeared as a musician in seven major motion pictures.While slowly building his law practice, Gene purchased a truckload of movie equipment he rented out to film production companies and then started his own production company which over the years produced more than 50 educational programs on subjects ranting from Boating and Celestial Navigation, to legal subjects (Depositions, Bankruptcy, etc.) Sign Language Instruction and many more.Always having been interested in boating, getting divorced prompted him to buy and move onto a 45-foot Chris Craft motor yacht in Marina del Rey California,.Years later, while serving as navigator on a yacht delivery from the U.S. to Tortola, Gene wrote his first book, "Celestial Navigation for Dummies" (before the popular series of 'Dummies' books was created). He used his own production equipment to shoot a video on the subject Celestial Navigation - "Sextant Use and the Sun Noon Shot" and unintentionally started the nautical video industry in this country.Over the next few years he followed that first title up with more than 50 other educational DVD titles, all displayed on his production company's website at www.MagicLampDVDs.com.Having moved on from doing scripts for his video productions, Gene turned to writing fiction, and now spends most of his time in the marina on his new boat, where he created the 15-book series of 'Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries,' all now available both in print and as eBooks at Smashwords via www.LegalMystery.comIn addition to the 15 Peter Sharp novels, Gene compiled a group of fiction and non-fiction titles that he has either written or edited for others, plus some classic stories: the publishing company he formed (www.MagicLampPress.com) now has more than 60 books in print.The Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series#1: Single Jeopardy#2: ...By Reason of Sanity#3: A Class Action#4: Conspiracy of Innocence#5: ...Until Proven Innocent#6: The Common Law#7: The Magician's Legacy#8: The Reluctant Jurist#9: The Final Case#10: An Element of Peril#11: A Good Alibi#12: Legally Dead#13: How to Rob a Bank#14: Murder Under Way#15: The Sherlock Holmes CaperThe Suzi B. Mystery Series (a spin-off)#1: ...Sorry, Wrong Number#2: Movie Magic#3: Two Perfect Crimes#4: He's the Guy#5: The Magic BulletsAll 20 of Gene's mysteries are described in detail in a free eBook: The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments.

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      The Sherlock Holmes Caper - Gene Grossman

      The Sherlock Holmes Caper

      Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #15

      www.LegalMystery.com

      Smashwords Edition 1.0 – March, 2010

      ©MMX Gene Grossman - All rights reserved

      *****

      The complete Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series, now available

      in both print and eBook formats at www.LegalMystery.com

      [soon to also be available as audiobooks]

      A brief summary of each is set forth at the end of this book

      #1: Single Jeopardy

      #2: …By Reason of Sanity

      #3: A Class Action

      #4: Conspiracy of Innocence

      #5: …Until Proven Innocent

      #6: The Common Law

      #7: The Magician’s Legacy

      #8: The Reluctant Jurist

      #9: The Final Case

      #10: An Element of Peril

      #11: A Good Alibi

      #12: Legally Dead

      #13: How to Rob a Bank

      #14: Murder Under Way

      #15: The Sherlock Holmes Caper

      *****

      Introduction

      If this is the first Peter Sharp Legal Mystery you’re reading, it might help you to know a little background information about the characters.

      Peter Sharp’s wife asked him to leave their home when she decided to downsize the household she owned, due to a conflict of their respective philosophies concerning legal representation: Peter is a private attorney specializing in defending the poor, unfortunate people ‘wrongfully’ accused of crimes. On the other hand, his ex-wife Myra, is now the elected District Attorney of Los Angeles County… the people who Peter contends operate the only successful ‘railroad’ in the country.

      Peter ultimately wound up living on a dilapidated old boat in their back yard, until moving it to a slip in Marina del Rey, where he discovered his former law school classmate Melvin Braunstein was a boat neighbor who soon became his employer, using Peter to do certain legal chores for his small law firm.

      Unfortunately, Melvin died in a plane crash, leaving Peter to inherit the small, failing law practice, an office manager (Melvin’s twelve-year old Chinese step-daughter Suzi, a computer genius) and Bernie, her huge St. Bernard.

      In accordance with Melvin’s Will, the court appointed Peter as Suzi’s legal guardian, and through a series of misfortunes that miraculously worked out, they wound up living aboard a beautiful 50-foot Grand Banks trawler-yacht, from which they operate their small law firm.

      When Peter isn’t swilling Patrón Margaritas at one of the marina’s local watering holes, he’s usually involved in some losing legal case that little Suzi will inevitably solve, leaving Peter with the impression that he’s actually as good as he thinks he is

      When Suzi isn’t busy scheming up some plan to get Peter and Myra back together again, she’s using her amazing computer skills (and several valuable law enforcement programs she ‘appropriated’ from Myra’s home computer) to aid local police agencies with their computer and crime-detection problems.

      All the local cops eat lunch at a Szechwan restaurant around the corner from the marina, where Suzi’s uncle is the owner, and where she occasionally sits on a high stool and acts as cashier.

      Your mission – if you decide to accept it – is to match wits with this 12-year-old girl and see if you can figure out a solution to each case before she does… while not being misled by theories and arguments proposed by all of the adults surrounding her (police, investigators, attorneys, prosecutors, etc.).

      *****

      Chapter 1

      I have finally found the only sure-fire way to stay happily single that works for me and that I can get away with on this boat – and I’ve already placed my order for it.

      There isn’t a normal female in the world (or at least one that I could settle down with) who would allow me to put what I’ve just ordered in any prominent place in our residence, so making it a deal-breaking item, I hope to remain safe.

      What is this magical item? Simple: it’s a large framed painting (or a cheap reproduction thereof) of Dogs Playing Poker.

      And how, you might ask will I be getting away with hanging this picture here in our Grand Banks 50 Trawler Yacht? Simple. The only female I have to contend with here is a 12-year-old brat who owns a dog very similar to one of the card-players featured in the painting… and there’s no way she can protest my hanging a picture of her favorite breed – the Saint Bernard.

      Other men have used similar ‘must-keep’ devices to discourage all but the most desperate of the female predators – a mounted animal’s head, a Marilyn Monroe lamp, a huge stuffed marlin, a large bowl of collected restaurant matchbooks, a book-case containing a valuable comic-book collection, and the list goes on.

      As has been documented in the Single Guys’ Bible, What Women Really Mean: the Female-to-English Dictionary by Dr. Nick Shoveen that I recently ordered from Amazon, males and females look at prospective spouses from different viewpoints. When a guy looks at a girl he wants to marry, he hopes she’ll stay exactly the way she is now, forever.

      On the other hand, when a girl looks at a guy she might settle for, she sees a work in progress – something she plans on molding into what can be a presentable end-product that she won’t be disappointed to be associated with in public.

      Unfortunately, things never seem to work out as planned: the girl is the one that changes over time, and the guy’s obnoxious traits that drive his wife crazy stay around forever, like they’re etched in stone.

      What’s the solution? If they are to remain together, as early in the relationship as possible she must get together of all his ‘single guy’ crap and replace it with distinguished, adult stuff, that’s all of her choosing.

      ***

      Anyone who knows me is aware of the fact that I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes – and yes, I do realize he’s a fictional character, but I also know that so is Santa Claus, but we still have a Christmas tree on the boat each year, with presents neatly stacked beneath it.

      Sherlockians all know that Iggy – that’s

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