General Heatherstone is not an unfriendly person, really.  He’s just very, very nervous.  So nervous, in fact, that he has converted his new home, Cloomber Hall, into a fortress and keeps his family as veritable prisoners behind its walls.  His neighbor John Fothergill West has taken an interest in the Heatherstones, and John soon finds Continue reading

A couple of years ago, I found an interesting book at a thrift store:  The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  It is a collection of stories, essays, etc, related to Sherlock Holmes, and almost all of them are entirely written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  I skimmed through the book; some of the stories I Continue reading