title: A Most Grave Ritual: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery (New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries) (Volume 20)
author:  Craig Stephen Copland 
description: Craig Stephen Copland confesses that he discovered Sherlock Holmes when, some time in the muddled early 1960s he pinched his older brothers copy of the immortal stories and was forever afterward thoroughly hooked. He is very grateful to his high school English teachers in Toronto who inculcated in him a love of literature and writing, and even inspired him to be an English major at the University of Toronto. There he was blessed to sit at the feet of both Northrup Frye and Marshall McLuhan, and other great literary professors, who led him to believe that he was called to be a high school English teacher. It was his good fortune to come to his pecuniary senses and abandoned that goal and pursued a varied professional career that took him to over one hundred countries and endless adventures. He considers himself to have been and to continue to be one of the luckiest men on Gods good earth. A few years back he took a step in the direction of Sherlockian studies and joined the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canadaalso known as the Toronto Bootmakers. In May of 2014 this esteemed group of scholars announced a contest for the writing of a new Sherlock Holmes mystery. Although he had never tried his hand at fiction before, Craig entered and was pleasantly surprised to be selected as one of the winners. Having enjoyed the experience he decided to write more of the same, and is now on a mission to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery that is related to and inspired by each of the sixty stories in the original Canon. All of the stories are set in Victorian/Edwardian London  with a few trips to other locations  and revolve around the traditional characters of Holmes and Watson, as well as the characters in the original story. But then a whole new mystery is unveiled. He currently lives and writes in Toronto, New York, the Okanagan Valley, and Tokyo, and looks forward to finally settling down when he turns ninety.
zlib_text: Contents
  
  [Cover](cover.html)
  
  Title Page
  
  Copyright
  
  Dedication
  
  Epigraph
  
  1\. Some Velvet Morning
  
  2\. An Experiment in Forensic Acoustics
  
  3\. The Hell’s Kitchen Mystery
  
  4\. The Secret of the Brownstone
  
  5\. A Surprise Entry
  
  6\. Parties to Plan, Errands to Run
  
  7\. A Little Overtime
  
  8\. The Team Assembles
  
  9\. The Waiting Game
  
  10\. Judge_D
  
  11\. Watson and the Captain case the Gala
  
  12\. Sherlock’s Adventures Underground
  
  13\. The Something in the Tunnel
  
  14\. The Enigmatic Dr. Harley
  
  15\. The Mystery Men
  
  16\. The Miranda Collection
  
  17\. Saved by the Bell
  
  18\. The Old Case
  
  19\. A Missing Person
  
  20\. Mr. Paul Black of the MTA
  
  21\. An Unexpected Call
  
  22\. The Second Victim
  
  23\. The Warning is Received
  
  24\. Contact is Established
  
  25\. The Benevolent Society of Motormen
  
  26\. The Legends of the Undercity
  
  27\. Dr. Harley’s Choice
  
  28\. The Deductions of Sherlock Holmes
  
  29\. The Walking Dead
  
  30\. Joining the Dots
  
  31\. Battle Stations
  
  32\. An Old Friend
  
  33\. Lisa’s Sur