Sherlock Holmes and The Bizarre Alibi [Paperback]

Frank Thomas (Author)

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Publication Date: October 14, 2004

With only the light of Slim's bull's-eye, it was rough going and soon my hands were bleeding and my legs protesting . But an untapped source of strength came to my aid. Here I was struggling towards unknown dangers, but i was living, i was part of an adventure. I was in the midst of an experience that my sedate fellow doctors in their well-appointed offices on Harley could only find in flights of fantasy. I was actually part of the stuff tha dreams are made of and, somewhat to my suprise, i found it exhilarating. Because of my association with the greatest detective the world has ever known, I was part of an heroic saga, a small part I will admit. Not that I felt heroic. I felt like a middle-aged commonplace man involved in exploits he was ill-suited for. But I was here with Holmes and I would not have had it any other way.

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About the Author

This is Frank Thomas' tenth book dealing with the immortal sleuth. Since these works have been published in America, England, Germany, Israel, and Russia, he must be the worlds most widely read poste Doyle Author. Prior to fiction writing, he enjoyed an illustrious performing career. He was and is the leading child performer in the history of the Broadway theatre. This led to feature or starring roles in fifteen major studio films, innumerable radio shows and finally he starred as and in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet on national TV for five years. He is single, resides in Hollywood, chases girls, and plays a very bad game of golf.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp. (October 14, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413468845
• ISBN-13: 978-1413468847
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,904,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Another game afoot!, March 19, 2005

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This review is from: Sherlock Holmes and The Bizarre Alibi (Paperback)

In the 1980s, Frank Thomas wrote a number of novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and all were published in German, I believe, but not all in English due to a paperback publisher going paws-up in the midst of the series. Now some of these are being brought to print, or reprinted as the case may be, by Xlibris.

Events of the present novel seem to take place right after the previous Thomas-authored adventure of the Panamanian Girls. Holmes and Watson are called to France to investigate a mysterious theft from the Louvre, then back to England to deal with a baffling kidnapping of a 6-month-old child from the family of Britain's chief economic advisor, a strange night attack on Miss Regina Braham in her own bedroom, and a suspicious buyup of DeBeers diamond mining stock. All the cases conveniently turn out to be connected, and the identity and motive of the ultimately-revealed villain took me by surprise. As usual in the later Holmes novels of Frank Thomas, Holmes employs a fairly large set of shady individuals with slightly illegal talents, in the course of his investigation, and gets a lot of help from Mycroft's multitalented aide Wakefield Orloff. I read the novel in a few hours, with a permanent smile on my face... the company was very pleasant, Holmes was true to his origins, the reader's intelligence was not insulted, and the plot and action held my interest throughout.

As with all the Xlibris books I have inspected, misprints are very few (I noted only a case of misplaced quotation marks), but someone needed to write down the word "bizarre" on a scrap of paper and tape it up where they could view it constantly. It is spelled correctly on the book's front cover, but not on the spine! It is spelled correctly in the text, but not on the title pages or on the page headers!