Sherlock Holmes: Two New Adventures
(2025)(A book in the Trojan Donkey Chapbooks series)
A collection of stories by Rhys Hughes
The renowned sleuth gets involved with murderous butlers and sinister lions.
‘Butlers are in a class apart from all other workers, Watson. The laws that govern the workings of a butler are as embedded in the mechanics of our cruel society as the laws of gravity are fixed in the physics of our cosmos. They are generally safe to be around, but whenever there is a murder it’s a demonstrable fact that the butler did it.’
‘I have heard that said many times.’ Watson became pensive. ‘But is there any explanation for why that should be so? Is there some psychological cause? Maybe fungus spores or germs are the reason?’
'''Nominative determinism, my dear Watson.’
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Mystery
‘Butlers are in a class apart from all other workers, Watson. The laws that govern the workings of a butler are as embedded in the mechanics of our cruel society as the laws of gravity are fixed in the physics of our cosmos. They are generally safe to be around, but whenever there is a murder it’s a demonstrable fact that the butler did it.’
‘I have heard that said many times.’ Watson became pensive. ‘But is there any explanation for why that should be so? Is there some psychological cause? Maybe fungus spores or germs are the reason?’
'''Nominative determinism, my dear Watson.’
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Mystery
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