Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Bulgarian Codex

About the Author

Tim Symonds was born in London. He grew up in Somerset, Dorset and Guernsey. After several years in East and Central Africa he settled in California and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Political Science from UCLA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Like his first novel, Sherlock Holmes And The Dead Boer At Scotney Castle (MX Publishing 2012), he wrote The Case of The Bulgarian Codex in the woods and remote valleys surrounding his home in the High Weald of East Sussex. More than a century ago, Sherlock Holmes’s creator explored the same woodlands from his favourite base at the Ashdown Forest Hotel in the run-up to his second marriage. In The Adventure of Black Peter Conan Doyle has Dr. Watson remark admiringly, ‘the Weald was once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay’.

Nargakot, Nepal. Photo Lesley Abdela