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    Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella
    Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella
    Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella
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    Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella

    By Dan Andriacco

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    Sherlock Holmes undertakes one of the strangest adventures of his career when he agrees to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore, who stepped back into his house to get his umbrella and was never seen again. The great detective’s inquiries take him down a sometimes-false trail from a home in Surrey to a music hall in London and back again before he finds the astonishing answer to this puzzling problem. In “The Problem of Thor Bridge,” Dr. Watson lists this case as one of Holmes’s complete failures. Read “The Adventure of the Magic Umbrella” to find why Watson agreed to his readers with that false report, and what the umbrella had to do with it. This is another thoroughly authentic Holmes story from the author of the widely acclaimed “The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Harden,” also available as an e-story, as well as numerous mystery novels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMX Publishing
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    ISBN9781780923956
    Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella

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      Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella - Dan Andriacco

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      Introduction

      The Mysterious Mr. Phillimore

      Arthur Conan Doyle once said that it took as much effort to work out the plot of a short story as to plan a novel. In my experience, he wasn’t far wrong. The story you are about to read must have taken me months to plot. (Admittedly, I also wrote a novel and a novella during that period.)

      From the beginning it was planned as a chapter in a mystery novel, The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore. It wound up being two. My idea was to take one of the more tantalizing untold tales of Dr. Watson, alluded to in the opening paragraph of The Problem of Thor Bridge, and give it two solutions - one in a pastiche (this short story) and another in a modern-day entry in my Sebastian McCabe - Jeff Cody mystery series (the novel in which the short story forms two chapters).

      I knew early on that I wanted this fourth novel in my series to take place in London and play off of one of the untold tales. After a false start around the singular affair of the aluminum crutch, Phillimore sprang to mind. Among those unfinished tales, Dr. Watson writes, is that of Mr. James Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own home to get his umbrella, was never more seen in this world.

      There must be dozens of pastiches based on this tantalizing idea. I’ve only read one that I recall. It’s a radio play by Ellery Queen in which the detective solves the disappearance of a contemporary (for that time) crook named Phillimore.

      Pastiche writing is an interesting challenge. In trying to duplicate the vocabulary and writing style of the real thing, I’m steering a narrow course between parody and plagiarism. That is, I

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