Author’s Note

Although some names have been changed, and some characters are fictitious, the basic fabric of the Jubilee Plot of 1887 is factual.

It could be fairly argued that many, if not most of the dynamite and assassination plots that featured in the newspapers in the 1880s originated in the British Home Office, Foreign Office and Scotland Yard. The ‘blood-soaked fiends’ who planned many of these fictitious outrages were paid agents of the Government.

For a very detailed account of the affair - including Maharajah Duleep’s bizarre impersonation of an Irish dynamitard - see Christy Campbell’s excellent Fenian Fire (2002).

I hope that you enjoyed reading this book, the second in the Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston series. The third book in the series, set during the Christmas 1887 holidays, sees Holmes, Watson and Winston facing Moriarty’s henchmen in the matter of the Giant Moles of Hereford.

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