Bruce Briley: 9 books

A member of the British peerage is diagnosed with leprosy, a disease intolerable to the Crown because of its historical implications. Holmes and Watson, whose activities are known and respected, are asked (a virtual command) to convey the individual to the leper colony on Molokai, among the Hawaiian...

The first of a series of Sherlock Holmes forbidden-to-be-published adventures, presented under the Imprimatur of the Conan-Doyle Estate. After relating the discovery of a cache of unpublished Holmes tales recorded by Watson, and discovered more than 50 years after his death by his grand-nephew, the...

A trip back from Molokai, an idyllic place were it not for the specter of its notorious leper colony. Departure by plane, a single-engine aircraft, when the engine suddenly explodes, forcing an open-ocean ditching, a maneuver that is seldom successful. A crash into shark-infested Pacific waters. My...

Holmes and Watson are called upon to investigate a series of baffling murders taking place in Kronborg Castle in Elsinsor, Denmark, following the plot of Hamlet. (It is the castle that Shakespeare used as the model for the setting of Hamlet. It has moats, dungeons, torture chambers, huge spires, stately...

World (and personal) history often turns upon single, critical events determined by minor perturbing influences. WW 2.5 explores the effects upon history of a minor malfunction preventing the bomb dropped upon Hiroshima from detonating, placing in the hands of the Japanese a nearly intact weapon suitable...

The second of a series of Sherlock Holmes forbidden-to-be-published adventures, presented under the Imprimatur of the Conan-Doyle Estate: There are two major, intertwined plot lines in this book: A voyage to China at the sponsored behest of a wealthy and desperate father to rescue his head-strong...

The third in a series of Sherlock Holmes forbidden-to-be-published Adventures under the Imprimatur of the Conan-Doyle Estate: A single, strong plot line dominates the story, but it has many tangled tributaries. It may be useful to list the names and attributes of new characters introduced: [An...

The story is based upon a (documented) 1500 word curse laid down upon a group of people in 1526 by the Archbishop of Glascow (the cursed people were the Reivers of the Walk, who were Robinhood-like denizens of the English-Scottish border, but much more fierce, comprising some of the bloodiest clans...

The events in the book take place in the present, but are based upon a genuine historical event of some 140 years ago, when a set of ciphers, largely unbroken to this day, were formulated. The cryptograms are absolutely authentic. They were authored by one Thomas Jefferson Beale, who, with others,...