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THE CASE OF THE GHOSTS OF BLY is the title novella in Donald Thomas's anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GHOSTS OF BLY AND OTHER NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT DETECTIVE. It is available in e-book format, but I found no publication date. The Honourable Hereward Douglas approaches Sherlock Holmes...

THE CASE OF A BOY'S HONOUR is the first of Donald Thomas's novellas published in the Kindle anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GHOSTS OF BLY AND OTHER NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT DETECTIVE. I do not find a date of publication. In May 1913 Mycroft Holmes brings Sir John Fisher, Admiral of the...

Jane Grix's BETWEEN DARCY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format published in 2017. Hot and upset following her dance with Fitzwilliam Darcy and their disagreement over George Wickham, Elizabeth leaves the ballroom to...

WISH UPON A STAR is Ola Wegner's 2017 novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in e-book format. Some six months after Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley's marriage, they leave Netherfield to escape Mrs. Bennet's constant presence. Jane invites sister Elizabeth to live...

Ben Tarnoff's THE BOHEMIANS: MARK TWAIN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS WHO REINVENTED AMERICAN LITERATURE is a history of literary life of San Francisco during the 1860s. It is available in e-book format, published in 2014. "The word [Bohemian] referred to a tribe of penniless artists seen...

THE COMPANION is the latest in Jann Rowland's variants of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Early in Elizabeth Bennet's visit to her friend Charlotte Lucas Collins, Anne de Bourgh's companion Mrs. Jenkinson dies from apoplexy. Lady Catherine finds...

A BENEFICIAL, IF UNWILLING, COMPROMISE is Bronwen Chisholm's 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. On the day of the Netherfield ball, Mrs. Bennet snoops in her husband's mail and finds a letter that convinces her Mr. Bennet is dying. To provide...

"Darcy's Tempest" is Jennifer Kay's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format, but I found no publication date. Following his disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet at Hunsford, Fitzwilliam Darcy has done his best to forget her. He does return...

Craig Janacek's TREASURE TROVE INDEED! is an anthology of four stories based on the Sherlock Holmes series originated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was published in digital format in 2016. As the title indicates, all involve a unique artifact that Holmes must explain and/or recover. They share...

CLEVER COMPROMISES is one of April Floyd's novella variants of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Reverend William Collins comes to Longbourn under instructions from his esteemed patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh to marry one of his Bennet cousins...

SILENT AS THE GRAVE is the third book in Paul Gitsham's police procedural / thriller series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Warren Jones. It was published in digital format in 2015. SILENT AS THE GRAVE opens in May 1988 with Warren's discovering his father, Coventry Detective Sergeant Niall...

UNRAVELLING MR. DARCY is one of Leenie Brown's novella variants in the A Dash of Darcy series, based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. UNRAVELLING MR. DARCY opens as Fitzwilliam Darcy leaves the parsonage at Hunsford after Elizabeth Bennet's...

Jill E. Armitage's ARBELLA STUART: THE UNCROWNED QUEEN was published n 2017. Its title implies a biography of the ill-fated heir to the English throne, but it deals more with Elizabethan Succession politics than with specific details of Arbella's life. ARBELLA STUART centers on her formidable...

CAROLINE'S CENSURE is the third and presumably final installment of Zoe Burton's Darcy Marriage variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. CAROLINE'S CENSURE opens where LADY CATHERINE IMPEDES ends, with Caroline Bingley arriving unannounced...

COURAGE REQUIRES is the second and final book in Melanie Rachel's Courage series of sequels to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Most of the story in COURAGE REQUIRES is slice of daily life activities in the autumn and holidays following the action...

THE BALLAD OF SEAN AND WILKO is the fourth book in Paul Charles's police procedural series centering on Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy of the Camden Town CID. It was published in 2000. The Circles, a major Brit band from the 1970s, celebrates the return of former lead singer and cofounder...

MISTAKEN is Jessie Lewis's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. I occasionally come across a book that makes me wonder if I'm reading the same text that other reviewers raved over. MISTAKEN is such a one. I'm giving up halfway through...

THE WRONG MAN is the fourth book in P. F. Ford's police procedural series featuring Detective Sergeant Dave Slater of the Tinton, Hampshire, CID. It was published in digital format in 2015. When her neighbor finds Diana Woods stabbed to death in her kitchen, Detective Sergeants Dave Slater and...

UNEQUAL AFFECTIONS is Lara S. Ormiston's 2014 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. The major change in Ormiston's variant is that, instead of furiously rejecting Fitzwilliam Darcy's insulting proposal of marriage at Hunsford, Elizabeth Bennet asks for...

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN: THE STORY OF NELLY TERNAN AND CHARLES DICKENS is Claire Tomalin's account of one of the greatest coverups in literary history--the 1857-1870 affair between Charles Dickens and Ellen "Nelly" Ternan. It was published in 1990. I refer the interested reader to the biography of...