\n<\/span>The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival<\/a><\/i>\u00a0is a science fiction mystery in which brilliant hyperspatial physicist, Dr. Skye Chadwick, discovers there are alternate realities, often populated by those we consider only literary characters. Her pet research, Project: Tesseract, hidden deep under Schriever AFB, finds Continuum 114, where Sherlock Holmes was to have died along with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. In a Knee-jerk reaction, Skye rescues Holmes, who inadvertently flies through the wormhole to our universe, while his enemy plunges to his death. Unable to go back without causing devastating continuum collapse, Holmes must stay in our world and adapt. Meanwhile, the Schriever AFB Dept of Security discovers a spy ring working to dig out the details of – and possibly sabotage – Project: Tesseract. Can Chadwick help Holmes come up to speed in modern investigative techniques in time to stop the spies? Will Holmes be able to thrive in our modern world? Is Chadwick now Holmes’ new “Watson” – or more? And what happens next?<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nThe Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival\u00a0<\/a><\/i>is available in print and ebook (all formats<\/a>), and the first four books of the series have been released in a collected ebook edition,\u00a0The Case of the Displaced Detective Omnibus<\/a><\/i>. Book 5,\u00a0A Case of Spontaneous Combustion<\/a><\/i>, is a 2014 new release. All of them are suitable for gift-giving!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I’m featuring another great gift idea by author Stephanie Osborn, fellow Twilight Times\u00a0author. This is not your father’s Sherlock Holmes… The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival\u00a0is a science fiction mystery in which brilliant hyperspatial physicist, Dr. Skye Chadwick, discovers there are alternate realities, often populated by those we consider only literary characters. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[328,597,81,445,443,620,331],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-interviews","tag-books","tag-gift-ideas","tag-mystery","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-stephanie-osborn","tag-the-case-of-the-dispatched-detective","tag-twilight-times-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>“…This is a really bad time for me to leave console at the moment, hon.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Caitlin shot her a hard, annoyed look.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cYou can\u2019t be considering it,\u201d she said flatly. \u201cAll hell is breaking loose here. I don\u2019t care if the President needed you five minutes ago! You have to stay here!\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cChill, Cait,\u201d Skye tossed an aside to her friend, phone held absently to the side of her face with her shoulder as she tried to read the scribbled note Timelines handed her, around annotating her clipboard. \u201cI\u2019ve got more to do than I can shake a stick at now. I\u2019m\u2026what?\u201d she said, staring at the note. \u201cSoftware! Check the focus subroutine! Make sure it\u2019s initiating at the correct point in the program! The last thing we need now is a software glitch causing a delay in timing. If that\u2019s happening, no wonder the induction element\u2019s hosed! Hardware, make sure the circuit\u2019s clear! Holmes, I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t make it right now. I don\u2019t have time to catch my breath down here.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Holmes listened closely, not only to Skye\u2019s direct comments, but also to her asides and commands, and to what he could hear of the remarks made to her. He covered the mouthpiece with his hand and informed Jones and Smith.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cIt appears matters are not going well in the Chamber.\u201d He punched the speaker button on the phone so the other men could hear. Then he returned his attention to the sounds coming from the phone. \u201cSkye, what is happening?\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Skye watched as her teammates fought with the recalcitrant apparatus. One of the Hardware console members, Chad Swann by name and a longstanding friend of Skye\u2019s, moved into the center of the room to check the circuitry of the monoliths. Skye grabbed her clipboard, flipping to the malfunction shutdown checklist, where she scanned the list, trying to determine the seriousness of their<\/span>
situation.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Vaguely she heard Holmes\u2019 query, but didn\u2019t have time to devote to it. Still, she managed to find two spare brain cells to rub together, and replied abstractedly, \u201cWe\u2019re having a malfunction in the induction element system. We can\u2019t keep it focused\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cSkye, we need you to make a call! Shut down, or put it in a holding pattern and troubleshoot?\u201d Caitlin interrupted. Skye juggled phone and clipboard, trying to assess the checklist for priority red malfunction modes.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cHolmes, I\u2019ve gotta go,\u201d she said into the phone. \u201cI need to figure out how serious this is\u2014\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cDR. CHADWICK! We\u2019ve got a GRAVITON SPIKE!\u201d Sequencing shouted.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Smith and Jones watched as Holmes\u2019 expression grew more and more grave as he listened to the sounds on the other end of the line. They heard Skye\u2019s attempt to break the conversation, and Holmes was about to answer in the affirmative when they overheard the exclamation from Sequencing.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Holmes paled as they heard Skye shout, \u201cChad!! Get out of there! NO! EMERGENCY SHUTDO\u2014\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>The line went dead.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Instantly the entire building shuddered hard enough to knock books off shelves and send Skye\u2019s chalk tumbling from its rack on the blackboard, smashing into dusty white shards on the tile. The three men grabbed for heavy furniture to avoid being flung to the floor.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>When the quake subsided, the three men sat staring at each other, shaken. Holmes felt almost lightheaded, his grey eyes wide.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d Jones demanded. \u201cDid that earthquake have anything to do with Project: Tesser\u2014\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cEmergency shutdown,\u201d Holmes snapped out, leaping to his feet. \u201cGraviton spike.\u201d He didn\u2019t fully understand the significance of the graviton spike, but from his reading of Skye\u2019s quantum mechanics text, which perforce contained a significant amount of particle physics, he knew what a graviton was, and strongly suspected it was connected to the quake. \u201cI am going down to the Chamber,\u201d he declared in a tone brooking no argument. \u201cThe two of you may come, or stay.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>\u201cIs your authorization in?\u201d Jones turned to Smith.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cYour duty officer entered it into the system when I arrived this morning,\u201d Smith observed.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cGood. We\u2019re coming, Holmes,\u201d Jones declared.<\/span>
\n<\/span>But Holmes was already out the door and down the hall, headed for the elevators at a dead run.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jones and Smith sprinted behind.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n