The Casebook of Twain and Holmes: Seven Stories From The World Of Sherlock Holmes As Dictated By Samuel Clemens

Beloved Humorist. Best-Selling Author. ... Consulting Detective.Now it can be told: Mark Twains adventures with Sherlock Holmes Watson Mycroft and Irene Adler.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 Franciscos 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.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.