Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Bulgarian Codex

Author’s post-script

I realise when writing my Sherlock Holmes novels how much I owe my paternal grandfather for whatever insight I have into the Victorian/Edwardian period in which Holmes and Watson operated. My Bristol-born grandfather called himself Professor Mark James Burgess and throughout my early years transported my grandmother, my mother and me around the watering holes of England and the Channel Islands with his brass plate, setting up during the season as a Consultant Psychologist. He had all the paraphernalia of the Victorians including a handsome china phrenological head by L.N. Fowler which could now only be found at great expense in antique shops, and a beautiful teak and brass contraption which delivered a very high voltage to the brain for people suffering depression which practitioners of those times used without any medical qualifications whatsoever.