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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lost Boy
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lost Boy
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lost Boy
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lost Boy

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A fantasy Sherlock Holmes novelette of 9,000 words, narrated by Mrs. John H. Watson. As a child, Mary Watson had an imaginary friend: Peter Pan. When Peter is blamed for the disappearance of a nobleman's young heir, Mrs. Watson, now all grown up, discovers that her husband's friend Sherlock Holmes also knows Peter, and has agreed to help Peter Pan locate the Lost Boy in the Neverlands, and find who carried him off, before the irate King of Dreams closes the gates of the Neverlands against all children, forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJul 14, 2015
    ISBN9781311414366
    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lost Boy
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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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      A superlative tale: true to Holmes yet otherworldly and venturing to places and mysteries one wishes H. & W. frequently far more often. The loss of Mary was a far larger sorrow than the cannon imagines.

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    Sherlock Holmes - Barbara Hambly

    Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventure of the Lost Boy

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    Barbara Hambly

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    Copyright 2013 Barbara Hambly

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    The Adventure of the Lost Boy

    About The Author

    SHERLOCK HOLMES

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE LOST BOY

    by

    Barbara Hambly

    When the Darling children disappeared without a trace from their nursery one night, their father took the case at once to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

    Mrs. Darling came to me.

    You know how George is, she said, when the first spate of anguish, of terror, of speculations both probable and grotesque had been talked out over tea. I had been in the Darling night nursery innumerable times, listening to the tales Meg Darling – Meg Speedwell she had been, when first I knew her at Mrs. Clegg’s dreary boarding-school in the north of England – would tell small Wendy, smaller John, and baby Michael of pirates, mermaids, red Indians and the fairies that dwell in Kensington Gardens.

    I knew the distance from that high window to the street below, and that the drainpipe was at the back, not the front, of that narrow brick mansionette in its row of identical dwellings. I knew how big a dog Nana was, and the sturdy Newfoundland’s ferocity where the children were concerned.

    George says— Meg began, and then stopped. For a time she sat turning her saucer round and round, forty-five degrees at a time, a habit she’d had when we were girls, and she was thinking about how best to say something that the adults had told us we shouldn’t say or even think.

    And I knew then that what – or who – she was thinking about, was Peter Pan.

    Do you remember Peter Pan? she asked, after a long, long time, in the small voice one usually only hears late at night, when the other girls in the bleak cold dormitory have gone to sleep.

    I nodded. I didn’t say, How could I forget? I think Peter Pan was the reason that I didn’t kill myself when I was seven or eight – and it’s a mistake adults make, to think that children who are sufficiently unhappy don’t want to try to end their own lives. Mostly we just don’t know how. That I’d lived through Mrs. Clegg’s ideas of

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