The Adventure of the Oakshott Trunk

A Sherlock Holmes pastiche. (The story has been updated and proofed to correct mistakes in the first printing)This is a story from Dr. John H. Watson's Chronicles in the recounting of one of Sherlock Holmes's adventures. Relating the bravery of Sir Charles Oakshott during the Boxer Rebellion, his subsequent mysterious death in Africa and the discovery of a gold mine. The later remarriage of his wife and the intrigue of her disappearance. in which Sherlock Holmes displays his amazing ability of Deductive Reasoning from a observation made of a carriage, old newspaper clippings, and a visit to a church. All of which eventually leads to the confrontation with the villains with the aid of Inspector Lestrade in an old English Manor.