Copyright © 2014 by Loren D. Estleman.
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ISBN 10: 1-4405-7450-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-7450-4
eISBN 10: 1-4405-7451-0
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“The Adventure of the Two Collaborators” previously published in The Sherlock Holmes Compendium edited by Peter Haining, copyright © 2007 by Apocryphile Press, ISBN 10: 1-9339-9348-0, ISBN 13: 978-1-9339-9348-5.
“The Surgeon’s Kit” previously published in A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen, copyright © 2001 by G.K. Hall & Company, ISBN 10: 0-7838-9485-6, ISBN 13: 978-0-7838-9485-0.
“The Adventure of the Dying Ship” previously published in The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes edited by Marvin Kaye, copyright © 1998 by St. Martin’s Griffin, ISBN 10: 0-312-18071-3, ISBN 13: 978-0-312-18071-3.
“Chapter 2” previously published in The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer, copyright © 1997 by Dover Publications, ISBN 10: 0-486-29898-1, ISBN 13: 978-0-4862-9898-6.
“How Watson Learned the Trick” previously published in Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha edited by Jack Tracy, copyright © 1980 by Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 10: 0-3952-9454-1, ISBN 13: 978-0-3952-9454-3.
“Two Shabby Figures” previously published in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King, copyright © 1994 by St. Martin’s Press, ISBN 10: 0-3124-2736-0, ISBN 13: 978-0-3124-2736-8.
“The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet” previously published in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett, copyright © 1975 by Pinnacle Books, ISBN 10: 0-5230-0695-0, ISBN 13: 978-0-5230-0695-6.
“The Adventure of the Red Widow” previously published in The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr, copyright © 1999 by Gramercy, ISBN 10: 0-5172-0338-3, ISBN 13: 978-0-5172-0338-5.
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