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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A Sherlock Holmes short story of 7,300 words, narrated by Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson are in San Francisco, and find themselves defending a Chinese magician accused of kidnapping a little girl. Someone obviously intends for the magician to be lynched, and Holmes calls upon the aid of another magician, renowned prestidigitator and aeronaut Oscar Zoroaster Diggs - otherwise known as the Great and Powerful Oz.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJul 17, 2015
    ISBN9781311599339
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman
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    Barbara Hambly

    Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror, mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended the University of California, Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux, France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger, and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara Hamilton.Professor Hambly also teaches History part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.

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      Sherlock Holmes - Barbara Hambly

      SHERLOCK HOLMES

      THE ADVENTURE OF THE

      SINISTER CHINAMAN

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Published by Barbara Hambly at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Barbara Hambly

      Cover art by Eric Baldwin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman

      About The Author

      SHERLOCK HOLMES

      THE ADVENTURE OF THE SINISTER CHINAMAN

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      As the reputation of Mr. Sherlock Holmes advanced, his freedom to choose his cases – adhered to even in early days when the pair of us were occasionally beholden to Mrs. Hudson’s grace in the matter of rent – increased. Astute investments by Holmes’s brother Mycroft eventually freed him from the need to accept cases that did not present features of interest to him which would broaden his own experience.

      One exception which he made to this rule was in the spring of 1901, when he agreed to investigate the persecution of American railroad magnate Hollis Connington, a case which both bored and annoyed him and which he undertook – I believe – for the sole reason that it followed hard upon my own near-fatal bout of pleurisy. Dr. Stamford at Bart’s was adamant in recommending a sea voyage for my cure, and Connington’s mansion and headquarters lay in San Francisco.

      When Holmes informed Connington by telegram that my assistance was a condition of his handling the case, Connington – a miser who had, by Holmes’ later count, twenty-four active candidates for the role of chief suspect in the attempts upon his life – reluctantly agreed, but took a petty revenge. While Holmes was lodged in the Palace Hotel in the city itself, I was put up in a modest boarding establishment across the bay in Berkeley. This circumstance led us both into a case which, Holmes said, made the entire California excursion worthwhile, and introduced us to that extraordinary madman, the balloonist and

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