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08 janvier 2013
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English
Title Page
Sherlock Holmes in
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAGIC UMBRELLA
Dan Andriacco
Publisher Information
First edition published in 2013 by MX Publishing
335 Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive,
London, N11 3GX
www.mxpublishing.com
Digital edition converted and distributed in 2012 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
© Copyright 2013 Dan Andriacco
The right of Dan Andriacco to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.
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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not of MX Publishing.
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Dedication
In Memorium
Ralph Eppensteiner
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 want it to seem very familiar to the Holmes reader without overreaching and without actually quoting from the originals. But that’s not all. I also want the plot, the settings, the atmosphere, and the new characters I’ve created to seem lifted straight out of the Holmes canon as well.
It’s a very difficult task.
