Former Devizes author Tim Symonds has joined the craze for resurrecting the greatest literary sleuth of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
Mr Symonds, who formerly lived at Potterne Wick, near Devizes, has just completed Sherlock Holmes and the Dead Boer at Scotney Castle, and the book is due to be published on March 19.
In the new book, Holmes and Watson take the train to Sussex to address the mysterious Kipling League at their Jacobean manor, Crick’s End. A body is found in a wagon pond at nearby Scotney Castle and the dynamic duo are called in to investigate.
Mr Symonds, who now lives in East Sussex, is better known as the executive director of Shevolution, whose Project Parity takes up women’s equality issues.
He is not the first former local author to write about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters.
Anthony Horovitz, the creator of Foyle’s War and the teenage spy Alex Ryder, who also used to live in the Potterne area, had success last year with The Silk House, in which Holmes and Watson investigate a paedophile ring.
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