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    Brother Keeper
    Brother Keeper
    Brother Keeper
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    Brother Keeper

    By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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    Brother Keeper
    Adapted from characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Before Sherlock was the Great Detective, he was a university student sent down from Oxford to London to the care of his older brother, a rising young man at the Admiralty, and during his time in London, he has his first look at the darker side of the city, with life changing results.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChelsea Quinn Yarbro
    Release dateMay 7, 2016
    ISBN9781310071607
    Brother Keeper
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    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Chelsea Q. Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism, and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction, and filtered it through a feminist perspective that made both the giving of sustenance and its taking of equal erotic potency. A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to Westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

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      Brother Keeper - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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      Brother Keeper

      Adapted from characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle

      Before Sherlock was the Great Detective, he was a university student sent down from Oxford to London to the care of his older brother, a rising young man at the Admiralty, and during his time in London, he has his first look at the darker side of the city, with life changing results.

      Brother Keeper

      Copyright © 2016 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

      Published by Avalerion Books, Inc.

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      First ebook edition April  2016

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincident

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      Author’s Note

      In 2009, I was working on a ghost-writing project that had run more than twice as long as the man who hired me had planned.  He tended to rewrite compulsively, meaning we were on a twelfth draft when he informed me that he had a contract to edit an anthology of Holmsian stories involving Moriarty, and would I write one for him as a way to attract other writers to the anthology.  He told me the contact was signed, he had cleared it with the Doyle estate (a condition I had insisted on in our contract), and that he was ready to begin taking submissions. 

      In general I do not like doing derivative fiction, but thanks to the work with Bill Fawcett, I had already done most of the preliminary research for Holmsian tales, and since I wanted to have a break from the almost never-ending project we were embarked upon, I agreed to write one for him, and Brother-Keeper was the result.  Furthermore, because of the four Mycroft Holmes books I did with Bill Fawcett, I felt more at home dealing with Mycroft than Sherlock, and revisiting that character was an enjoyable experience.  The anthologist was pleased with the story, and assured me that everything was in order and he would pay me as soon as he collected the advance money. 

      As it turned out, the contract had not yet been signed, and apparently, the Doyle estate had not signed off on the project (this was before the court decision that Holmes and Watson, and related characters were in the public domain) he and the publisher came to an impasse upon which neither of them would compromise, and the anthology was abandoned.  I asked for a kill fee, but that came to naught.  So I had this orphan story and no likely place to put it.  Eventually a Sherlockian friend, who had read it when I wrote it, suggested that I put it up on the Internet, so here it is, and I hope you will relish it.

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      It was slightly more than two months after my return from my third cryptographic mission on the Continent that my younger brother was sent down from Exeter College, Oxford, where he had been studying history and botany; he arrived one wet April evening at my new flat in Pall Mall, a tall, weedy, long-headed youth of twenty-one in an over-large greatcoat with a well-worn valise filled half with clothes and half with books, and a violin case, seeking a refuge and an opportunity to explore the metropolis unhampered and unharried.

      I was glad of this opportunity to become properly acquainted with him — he, being some seven years my junior, had not had much occasion to share my company when we were young, for I was away at school

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