Bøger af San Cassimally

Irene Adler is the one woman who can outwit Sherlock Holmes. Holmes knows this and respects her-even encouraging her to take on the persona of Dai Lernière, a male detective, to work alongside him solving mysteries. But what happens when Holmes and Adler end up on different sides of the same case? In the third installment of San Cassimally's Irene Adler Trilogy, Holmes and Adler crisscross paths in outlandish new Victorian adventures. They find themselves wrapped up in international intrigue in the infamous Dreyfus Affair. Adler and Holmes take on the twist-filled case of a young woman's missing fiancé. Actress Sarah Bernhardt tasks Adler with recovering a beloved but macabre trinket, and the duo breaks into a German spy's safe. Holmes and Adler seem to be a top-notch team-until they end up on opposite sides of the case of a cuckolded politician. The Adventures of Irene Adler follows The Casebook of Irene Adler and The Memoirs of Irene Adler. Through the popular trilogy, author San Cassimally brings to life a marginal character that has long fascinated fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.

Two young scientists, Don from Canada, and Katrina from Italy, are cycling in the Highlands of Scotland in early summer. Unbeknownst to them, they are both going to take a research fellowship at the university of Aberdeen where they will be engaged in a project on Bird Migration. Immigration is as old as the world. The population movement in this story is limited to the last three centuries, but involves all seven continents. To this day, the Highland Clearance is a sore point for many Highlanders. The lairds, keen to increase their profits, force out Highlanders, eking out a living on their none-too-fertile soil.Their aim is to replace them with sheep, a much more lucrative occupation for them. They enthusiastically engineer their relocation in Canada and North America. In India, some regions are prone to drought making the land unsuited for agriculture. Two friends from Bihar, worried about the welfare of their families, arrive at the conclusion that they have no future in their part of the world, and having heard that Calcutta is being transformed into a land of plenty by the British East India Company, decide to trek there, taking months to arrive. They find that they are not welcome by the locals, and end up in the bleak but beautiful Sunderbans, where they work their fingers to the bones to provide for their families. The land is notorious for its high salt contents, making agriculture difficult. The fact that it is in the path of cyclones does not add to its appeal, as their meagre crops are regularly destroyed by storms and floods. When they hear that the Company are keen to send people to the colonies, Fiji, Mauritius, Demerara etc ... all expenses paid, they think their troubles are over, and take the plunge once again, becoming indentured labourers. In the bustle, a young mother with two children become separated from her husband and a child, and finds herself in Mauritius with her young son. A resourceful woman, she copes with many obstacles and survives triumphantly. Some other migrants find themselves in Guyana, Fiji, Trinidad... European and Arab traders capture peaceful villagers in Africa, Inhambane, and take them, in inhumane conditions across the oceans, to be sold as slaves to work on the fields for the enrichment of plantation owners. Midala is captured after a strongly armed little army marches in his village, killing those who offered resistance, including his wife. He is taken to Mauritius where labourers are needed to work on the sugar cane fields after slavery is abolished. He does not take this lying down, and will make desperate efforts to escape and go back to Inhambane. In Tolpuddle, Dorset, agricultural workers, paid a pittance are shocked when they hear that their wages were going to be reduced because they dared ask for a rise. They protest, and are arrested for rioting, and are condemned to transportation to New South Wales. In Italy, a strong-willed young woman, born out of wedlock, finds it difficult to adapt to the hostile environment and leaves home to go work for the British army at Monte Cassino, and meets and fall in love with a young recruit from Mauritius, but as a war is raging on, they become separated. In Ukraine, a young man is forced to choose between the resistance and collaborating with the Nazis. He is devastated by his part in the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, and tries to atone. After the war, he emigrates to London where many young men from war-damaged areas can find work in the building industry. In their new homes, some prosper, but most continue struggling against heavy odds. They learn to survive, fall in love, marry and have children, and the cycle continues. Don and Katrina are issues of these ancestors.

This is a collection of short stories with an Indian connection. Many are set in India, but it is also about the diaspora. They events happen mostly in the present or in the recent past, but Majunga, a story set in the Malagasy Republic includes the true story of the auction of a ship in the early twentieth century. The story about the invention of the pressure cooker is set in an unspecified past, when India was ruled by Mughal Emperors. Kokilakshi is a revised version of The Ticking Clock, which appeared on Create Space a few years ago. The title, Samosas And Ale inspired by Mr Somerset Maugham's Cakes & Ales (which itself came from Shakespeare) might suggest that these are all cheerful and happy tales, but there are also stories of abuse, abduction and the dishonourable practice which is called, without irony, honour-killing. Many of the themes will be recognised by Indian readers, but will intrigue others. Sibling rivalry is universal, but it does not always spring from the same source. In the story Brotherhood, one brother is an eminent surgeon living in Edinburgh whilst the other one struggles to make a living in Kolkata. The love they share is deep but not unalloyed. The tensions between them is revealed to be rooted in one unforgettable incident when they were still in shorts. My Grandson The Detective very aptly tells how the eponymous character living in Bhopal solves a crime committed in the United Kingdom, by reading about it in English papers. In Sunrise In Goa, a Scottish prostitute holidaying in Goa strikes a friendship with a Catholic priest and spends the night in his house, with unforeseen results. A famous Scottish writer, in India to attend the Jaipur Literary Festival picks the most ungainly waiter at the Taj Mahal Hotel to spend the night with. What makes a proud haughty no-nonsense agnostic businessman suddenly decide to go on a pilgrimage on foot? Did the man who has come to Candolim to write have another agenda? Is he a paedophile? In the Maupassant story, will the victim of a rape seek retribution in the manner the Corsican widow avenged the death of her son? In a story about the tyranny of love, a son confronts his father who killed him with kindness. All the stories explore the human condition with great insight. All human life is here!

Irene Adler is always one step ahead of her opponents. When she ends up the target of the King of Bohemia, a paranoid former lover, she pulls off a most brilliant evasion. She assumes the false identity of "Mrs. Hudson" and becomes the housekeeper of none other than the famed detective Sherlock Holmes. Unbeknownst to Holmes, Adler uses Number 221B Baker Street as her sanctuary, while she stealthily gives Holmes solutions to his cases and takes on missions of her own. San Cassimally's collection of short stories has Ms. Adler joining forces with a group of iconoclasts from all over Europe and America. Calling themselves "The Club des As," they set themselves the task of righting the world's wrongs. Holmes takes a back seat in these tales, as Adler proves herself his equal in cleverness and observation. She and her club take on thieves, opportunists, racists, profiteering art dealers and auctioneers, and none other than the Moriarty Crime Syndicate. These lighthearted mysteries will deliver the mental gymnastics and suspense that fans of the Sherlock Holmes tradition, and detective stories at large, have come to know and love.

In the hopes of showing that the character Irene Adler has much more to give than a walk-on role in one Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, author San Cassimally disguises her as male private investigator Mr. Dai Lernière, and weaves seven exciting cases into one compelling fictional memoir. Upon their return from a stint in Australia, Holmes suggests to Adler that she take on some investigations of her own, and she does just that. Each story provides an engaging, mind-bending mystery in which Adler and her Club des As uncover clues and give power to the powerless in battles against evil, greedy, and conniving foes. Whether the case involves an Irish patriot accused of treason and facing the gallows, the search for a kidnapped toddler, or a royal bank's involvement in underground slave trade, Adler uses her gifts of deduction and wit to solve the mystery and bring wrongdoers to justice. These collected memoirs of Irene Adler deliver the intellectual challenge and sardonic humor that follows in the Sherlock Holmes tradition-and adds to it a flare only achieved through a woman's touch. Return to 221b Baker Street and experience the Holmesian world expanding with the turn of every page.

This is a novel in which Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes investigate the disappearance of two men. They are the stepfather and the man Mary Sutherland was engaged to be married to. When the body of the older man, stabbed in the back, is found in Epping Forest, everything points to the young man, who has disappeared. This is, however, not a straightforward tale of murder. Holmes and Adler will need to dig deep in the archives of infamy and educate themselves in practices that are not talked about in polite society: Abuse of children, bit sexual and physical.