The Adventure of the Awful Apparition
Type of material: Softcover Booklet
Author: Ellay Aitchison
Publisher: Hansom Press, 1026 West Keith Road, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V7P 3C
Year: 1999
Pages: 52
Price: Canada $17.00; USA $12.00; UK £8.50; checks and cheques should be payable to Hansom Press
Review: The Adventure of the Awful Apparition by Ellay Aitchison (alias Len Haffenden) is Volume 3 in the Petrel Premium series published by Hansom Press for The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia.
The title piece is a short three-act play based on the 'plot for Sherlock Holmes story' found by Hesketh Pearson among Conan Doyle's papers (see The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes edited by Richard Lancelyn Green); it is followed appropriately by an encore, How Watson Learned the Trick, dramatised from ACD's own parody; and to round off there's a script for a Punch & Judy show, based on Len's childhood memories (*I can't remember when I last saw the Devil get the better of Punch as he does here*).
It's all nicely produced, with endearing illustrations by Xerez, and very entertaining.
Reviewed by: Roger Johnson, [District Messenger 192, 1999]
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