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    Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle
    Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle
    Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle

    By Phillip Duke

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    Cattle are found mutilated, sometimes located high up in trees. Prize-winning heifer Lulu disappears, and her watchman is found dead,  without a mark on his body. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate, and brilliantly applying his astonishing powers of observation and logical deduction, Holmes explains the watchman's mystwerious death, and predicts the cattle mutilations will soon stop, which they do.

    The case is closed, but a loose end remains, it cannot be explaines, and so Sherlock Holmes is not at all satisfied. He allows the case to be written up, but not published. In the course of two world wars the case became lost, but it was recently found, and is now published.as an ebook. For the first time ever you can now read the case of Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle. The mutilated cattle events are probably the strangest things Holmes ever investigated.

    If you like reading Sherlock Holmes cases, you will enjoy reading this most interesting one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhillip Duke Ph.D.
    Release dateMar 21, 2013
    ISBN9781497711082
    Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle
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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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      Sherlock Holmes and the Mutilated Cattle - Phillip Duke

      SHERLOCK HOLMES

      And

      the Mutilated Cattle

      By

      Phillip Duke Ph.D.

      Copyright © 2012 Phillip Duke Ph.D all rights reserved

      11,500 Words and 167 Kilobytes.

      Introduction

      To facilitate ebook sample reading the Table Of Contents and other Front Materials have been relocated to the rear.

      Chapter One

      The London Stockmen’s Association

      It was a typical winter day in London, dreary, damp and overcast, with a blustery cold wind carrying a promise of snow not far behind. The remains of yesterday’s evening meal, the centerpiece of which had been an excellent kedgeree of rice, smoked fish and hard-boiled eggs, was being removed by Holmes’s faithful housekeeper and landlady Mrs. Hudson. She had just brought up some nice buttered scones, but for the moment they were being ignored.

      Without a case to occupy him, Sherlock Holmes had been growing increasingly nervous all morning, and was now pacing rapidly back and forth, I couldn’t help thinking, like a caged animal. He kept glancing at the clock as if anticipating someone’s arrival, but to my knowledge no one was expected. Suddenly Holmes stopped, and picking up the morning’s newspaper suddenly shoved it under my nose.

      "Tell me old boy what do you make of that?" he said, pointing to a small article on the front page. This is what the article said:

      A mutilated animal found in Derbyshire. The body of a mutilated bull was found alone in a Derbyshire field. Parts of the animal were cut away, but the body was largely intact. Anyone having knowledge of this matter is asked to come forward. This is the third such recent animal attack in as many days, and  owners are increasingly alarmed. Scotland Yard is investigating.

      Evidently this cruel treatment of an innocent animal bothered Holmes. I knew he liked animals, and we would have kept dogs, except that as Holmes said, it was unfair to keep them caged up in the city. And I doubt Mrs. Hudson would have approved.

      After thinking about it for a moment, the answer came to me. No doubt some hungry people looking for free meat. I told Holmes this, but his response was immediately negative.

      No, Watson old chap, I don’t think so. I made a few inquiries, and the little information made available to me indicates hunger was not the motive.

      But, I said, since meat was taken from a food animal, how do you know the intention was not to eat the meat?

      Because, Watson, the good to eat parts were not taken. I understand that one ear and one eye is missing, along with other superficial parts. The great masses of body muscles, where steaks and roasts come from, were not touched. Also, there was no attempt to remove the body. A dead food animal like that is well worth taking to one of the many illegal, unlicensed slaughterhouses. Holmes paused a moment in thought, and then went on

      No, there is something afoot here, something that is quite strange, and that needs to be put right. I expect we will have the opportunity of doing just that.

      Holmes, what do you mean, opportunity to do just that?

      My dear Watson, I have made arrangements for representatives of the London Stockmen’s Association to come here and meet with us this very morning. Where the deuces are they! What can possibly be keeping them?

      So then I knew why Holmes had kept looking at the clock. From what he said we could have

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