A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Lost Village of Pippidufka [ Collector's Edition]: — from "The Compleate Illustrated Lost Folke TaIlles Of Pippidufka"($7.95Value)

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Hilarious! Riotous!. The ultimate shaggy dog story which at its core reveals the true history of the world. Full of dead ends, cul-de-sacs, misdirections, exaggerations, obfuscations, tangled webs, fairy tales, kernels of truth, macguffins… charlatans, fortune seekers, tax collectors, greedy clerics, misbegotten peasants, talking bears, The Lost Village of Pippidufka: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery A "lost" manuscript by John Watson-Smythe, MD. Sherlock Holmes vanishes into the "Great Emptiness," leaving his partner to surgically reconstruct the burnt remains of the Silesian’s Text using a scalpel and a Bunsen burner. A masterful blend of Baker Street lore and Pippidufkan folly. What if Sherlock Holmes’ final confrontation at Reichenbach Falls was a cover story for a far more "invidious" journey? In this unearthed manuscript, transcribed by the "other" Watson, his grandson— John Watson-Smythe, MD —we discover the staggering truth: Sherlock Holmes was a "Pippidufkanophile." Following a late-night visit from a mysterious guest bearing a "Greate Mappe" and a packet of blood-stained Gauloises papers, Holmes vanishes into the "Great Emptiness," leaving his sedentary partner to handle the most delicate forensic operation of his career: the restoration of the Silesian’s Text . - Through a series of surgical mishaps, laboratory fires, and a desperate, drug-induced "psychic connection," Watson-Smythe reconstructs the fragments of a lost world. This volume is a masterful blend of Victorian mystery and absurdist satire, revealing that the "Great Detective" didn't die in a struggle with Moriarty, but may have simply found a village so small he could never find his way back out. "To the task at hand, Watson-Smythe!" While the world mourned Sherlock Holmes at the foot of the Katzenbach Falls, a different story was being typed on brittle onionskin in a dimly lit London parlour. The Lost Village of Pippidufka is the account the British Government didn't want you to read. It tells of a detective obsessed with "The Great Emptiness," a surgeon who accidentally bleached the world's most important manuscript in boiling water, and a drug-induced epiphany that gave birth to the Silesian’s Text . - Was Holmes a visionary, or was he merely chasing an "opium dream" into a village that doesn't exist? This volume provides the 60 pages of evidence that Sir Charles Phindledoyne tried to bury for "King and Country."