Book description
Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector is a collection of seven short stories featuring Dr Johnson as a Sherlock Holmes-like detective with Boswell as his Dr Watson-inspired sidekick. The stories are based, to some extent, on known historical mysteries, myths, or situations. The volume was succeeded by three further collections, making for a total of thirty-three detective stories.
Stories included in Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector are:
- the Unmasking of the Flying Highwayman
- the singular Episode of the Monboddo Ape Boy
- the Recovery of Prince Charlie's vanisht Ruby
- the stolen Christmas Box
- the pilfer'd Great Seal of England
- the Detection of the mysterious Visitant in Mincing Lane
- the macabre Affair of the Wax-Work Cadaver