A Sandal from East Anglia: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Sherlock Holmes is the world’s best known detective. Over 100 million copies of the original Sherlock Holmes stories have been sold since they were first released in the late Victorian period. Today there are over 3000 Sherlock Holmes Societies scattered all over the world and devoted to the adventures of Holmes and Watson. Readers, it can be deduced, can never get enough of Sherlock Holmes.
Craig Stephen Copland is a dedicated Sherlockian whose mission is to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery that is related to and inspired by each of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. They are all set in the same time period and take place in London and in a few other more exotic locations. The same much-loved characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson appear in every story. Together, along with heroes and heroines they take on the forces of evil and using the science of deduction bring dastardly criminals to justice.
A Sandal from East Anglia recounts the story of archeological excavations at the ruined Abbey of St. Edmund, where a seven hundred year old sealed canister has been unearthed. In it is a document that has the potential to change the course of the British Empire and all of Christendom.
There are some evil young men who are prepared to rob, and beat and even commit murder to keep its contents from ever becoming known. There is a strikingly beautiful young Sister, with a curious double life, who is determined to use the document to improve the lives of women throughout the world.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to protect the young woman, catch the killers, and trap the evil men who are greedily plotting against The Nun.
The mystery is inspired by the original Sherlock Holmes story, A Scandal in Bohemia. Fans of Sherlock Holmes will enjoy a new story that maintains all the loved and familiar characters and settings of Victorian England.