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10 best books like The Case of the Baker Street Irregular (Robert Newman): The Best of Father Brown, Taming the Forest King, A Murder for Her Majesty, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, The Master Puppeteer, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Good Morning, Irene, The Last Treasure, The Revenge of the Hound: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas

The Best of Father Brown
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0752851683
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-four Father Brown stories written by British author, philosopher, and Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote a number of influential religious works, including THE EVERLASTING MAN and ORTHODOXY, and was also an accomplished...
Taming the Forest King
AuthorClaudia J. Edwards
ISBN0445203080
The distant Forest Province had been torn apart by corruption and rebellion. On the direct orders of her king, Tevra, Colonel of the Light Cavalry, arrives in this strange land with instructions to restore order - at swordpoint, if need be.

Yet no steel blade can hold sway in a realm where shapes...
A Murder for Her Majesty
AuthorBeth Hilgartner
ISBN0395616190
I usually criticize books, and pick on every single bad thing about them. The characters are weak... The plot was limp, and "horrid"... Or, most terribly, the storytelling was atrocious.
That wasn't the case with this book. And it pleasantly surprised me with no feminist sort of messages. "Girls...
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders
AuthorLarry Millett
Sherlock Holmes rides again in this delightful mystery, based on another newly discovered manuscript. The year is 1896, and St. Paul's magnificent Winter Carnival is underway when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city's most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. It seems a wealthy young...
The Master Puppeteer
AuthorKatherine Paterson
ISBN0064402819
Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, is determined to find out, even at risk to his own life.

Meamwhile,...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
Good Morning, Irene
AuthorCarole Nelson Douglas
ISBN0812509498
Picking up where Good Night, Mr. Holmes left off, our heroine, Irene, is in Paris lapping up her obituaries, when a drowned sailor emerges from the Seine bearing a strange tattoo . . . rather like the one on a corpse Irene once saw on Bram Stoker's dining room table. "So that's what happened to Irene Adler!...
The Last Treasure
AuthorJanet S. Anderson
ISBN0439707846
For thirteen-year-old Ellsworth, family has always been just him and his dad. That's all Ellsworth thought he wanted. But then the dreams start. Dreams of houses surrounding a beautiful green square. Suddenly a letter arrives, inviting Ellsworth to a home he doesn't remember: the Square in Smith...
The Revenge of the Hound: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
AuthorMichael Hardwick
ISBN0743498240
El doctor John H. Watson nos narra el caso al que se enfrentaron él mismo y Sherlock Holmes en el verano de 1902, cuando un vagabundo es atacado en el Páramo de Hampstead, encontrándose las huellas de un sabueso enorme en la zona, lo que no deja de recordar a otro antiguo caso, el llamado El sabueso de los...
The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas
AuthorTracy Mack
ISBN0439828368
Mysteries are the next big thing! This is a new spin on the most famous detective stories of all time, focusing on the kids who helped Sherlock Holmes solve mysteries and save England from doom.

Sherlock Holmes stories captured readers' imaginations for more than a century. Now Tracy Mack and...
Exit Sherlock Holmes
AuthorRobert Lee Hall
ISBN0872165116
Ever wondered just what was the relationship between Holmes and Moriarty? Why no one has ever seen the two of them together? Well, here's your answer. As Moriarty himself puts it: 'We are closer than brothers - and further apart than any two beings can be.' This non-Doyle pastiche continues the Sherlock...
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0802779182
Gathering the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-including a wide range of overlooked gems-Michael Sims showcases the writers who ever since have inspired the field of detective fiction.

From luminaries Mark Twain,...
Throwing Shadows
AuthorE.L. Konigsburg
ISBN0689821204
This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

Throwing Shadows is a collection of short stories published by E.L. Konigsburg in 1979. Each story is told in the first person, from the perspective of a young person who, during his or her story, has a significant encounter with another...
Master Cornhill
AuthorEloise Jarvis McGraw
ISBN0140322558
Normally, I would not have bought, on impulse, a book with the boring title of "Master Cornhill." However, Eloise Jarvis McGraw just so happens to be a favorite author of mine. I am so glad that I "didn't judge a book by it's cover" and gave this novel a chance. Master Cornhill was beautifully written, with...
Gib Rides Home
AuthorZilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN0385322674
Gib Whittaker's life at Lovell House Orphanage in the early 1900s is pretty bleak. But along with hours of chores, bad food, and paddlings, the boys do get some schooling, and reading and writing are better than scrubbing floors. Still, Gib's fondest dream is to have a real family. So when Georgie Olson...
Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James
AuthorPaula Danziger
ISBN0698117883
I haven't read this book in a really long time. But I was privileged enough to get this book autographed by Paula Danziger herself. She came to visit my elementary school in the 4th grade. Her Amber Brown series was the first set up books I ever picked up on my own and read. I couldn't read until the 4th grade,...
The King of Mulberry Street
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0385746539
In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and...
The Search for South Pole Santa
AuthorJinglebelle Jackson
The population alarm has gone off at the North Pole alerting the world that there will soon be too many children for Santa to serve! The search begins for a second Santa, South Pole Santa. Many people apply, but only six are selected to compete - including a teenage girl attending school far away on a remote...
Nicobobinus
AuthorTerry Jones
Terry Jones's books for children are great fun stories that really stimulate the imagination. As you would expect from one of the Monty Python team, his stories have settings that appear on the surface to be classical and traditional - in this case, medieval Venice, but they take that start point and...
Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense
AuthorAlfred Hitchcock
Table of contents:
"The Chinese Puzzle Box" by Agatha Christie
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier
"Puzzle For Poppy" by Patrick Quentin
"Eyewitness" by Robert Arthur
"Man From The South" by Roald Dahl
"Black Magic" by Sax Rohmer
"Treasure...
Death in the Air
AuthorShane Peacock
ISBN0887768512
After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable...
Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
AuthorKimberly Willis Holt
ISBN0805063609
The lives of four generations of one Louisiana family, woven together by a master storyteller

Tracing a family's roots is like taking a journey through the years. In the case of one Louisiana family, that journey can be charted by the books they read and loved.

The journey begins in...
A Picture for Harold's Room
AuthorCrockett Johnson
ISBN0064440850
From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.

Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices...
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