The Casebook of Twain and Holmes

<p><strong>Beloved Humorist. Best-Selling Author. ... Consulting Detective.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Now it can be told: Mark Twain’s adventures with Sherlock Holmes Watson Mycroft and Irene Adler.</p><p> </p><p>As part of his autobiography Samuel Clemens dictated seven stories that he later ordered burned. Discovered at a Pennsylvania farm auction and edited by Pulitzer-Prize winning editor Bill Peschel they uncover the Mark Twain nobody knew: who interfered in a marriage proposal organized a boxing scam and went grave-robbing. A Twain who also caroused with a young John H. Watson in San Francisco’s Chinatown; needed Holmes’ help with a blackmail plot; tangled with Mycroft Holmes and kidnappers in Morocco; and ran up against Irene Adler and a vengeful German officer in Heidelberg.</p><p> </p><p>Most of these stories — four featuring Holmes and one each with Watson Mycroft Holmes and Irene Adler — appeared in the 223B Casebook series collecting Sherlockian parodies and pastiches. These tales are now available in this exclusive complete edition from the Peschel Press.</p>