The Adventures Of Sharley

The Adventures of Sharley is a time capsule for country life in the 1940s and early 1950s. The stories between these pages are the experiences of a little girl discovering freedom and responsibilities of life on a farm. Soak in the different era as Sharley learns life lessons at the guiding hands of her grandparents. The Adventures of Sharley has been a joy to write. It has given me a time to remember and to thank God for grandparents who taught and helped a little girl to see God through his amazing creations.

Shirley Holmes is on the case in these thrilling new mysteries, using the cunning and logic that she inherited from her famous ancestor, Sherlock Holmes. In "The Case of the Burning Building", the new kid in school, Bo Sawchuk, is accused of causing several fires in the area. But Shirley believes Bo is innocent, and the two of them set out to find out who wants to frame Bo and why. In "The Case of the Ruby Ring", a famous ring on display in the school auditorium is stolen. Shirley gets to work using her superior detective skills to discover the thief and return the jewel to its proper place.

Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Nothing makes much sense to him, and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists. Wound Man is an unconventional superhero, sprung from the pages of a medieval medical textbook, with an alarming assortment of weapons sticking out from every part of his body. Wound Man has just moved into a house on Shirley’s street – and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick... A funny and touching story by Chris Goode about two unlikely friends and the adventures they share.

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognizable—and most parodied—names in western literature. Bill Mason, BSI, collects and annotates these parody names, from the first one that appeared in 1891, to the present day. As Mason says in his introduction: One of the great aspects of Sherlock Holmes is the fact that, just as the character himself is subject to endless variation, so is his name. Ellery Queen noted that the name itself “is particularly susceptible to the twistings and mis-shapenings of burlesque minded authors.” Surely, Arthur Conan Doyle, who struggled a little with what he was going to call his detective hero, could not have known just how perfect the name he finally selected—Sherlock Holmes—would be for parody, for rhyme, for the transposing of letters and sounds, for the substitution of suggestive words in the name of a comic character. Mason’s listings are an invaluable resource for the Holmsian scholar, researcher, or for those interested in whiling away a few hours with a delightful and chuckle-inspiring volume.

Shirley's adventures at the beach are interspersed with familiar parental warnings.