The Adventure at Old Basingstoke by Kathleen Kaska

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Photo by Soyoung Han on Unsplash

In the many cases in which I cooperated with my friend Sherlock Holmes over the years of our association, none began as chaotically as the Old Basingstoke case. Holmes and I had just returned from an exhausting adventure in Dartmoor, where he had found what was to many, a local hero. Silver Blaze, the missing star racehorse owned by…