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''A Three-Pipe Problem'' is a 1975
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detective novel Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as s ...
by the British writer
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.Bargainnier p.220 A pastiche of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, it takes place in the present day. The title refers to a line spoken in ''
The Red-Headed League "The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in ''The Strand Magazine'' in August 1891, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed Leag ...
'', referring to a particularly tricky problem that will take Holmes the time it takes to smoke three
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to solve. It was followed by a sequel '' The Kentish Manor Murders''.


Synopsis

Overbearing and reactionary actor Sheridan Haynes has a fascination with Sherlock Holmes, and is cast to play him in a new television series. Overidentifying with the role he sets out to investigate three murders that Scotland Yard have failed to solve.


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Bibliography

* Bargainnier, Earl F. ''Twelve Englishmen of Mystery''. Popular Press, 1984. * Caserio, Robert L. ''The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel''. Cambridge University Press, 2009. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. 1975 British novels Novels by Julian Symons British detective novels British crime novels British mystery novels Novels set in London Collins Crime Club books Sherlock Holmes novels Sherlock Holmes pastiches {{1970s-novel-stub