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It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. ![]() ![]() Bookmaker Fitzroy Simpson had come to Dartmoor (and specifically to King's Pyland) to gather information about Silver Blaze and his stablemate Bayard. Holmes and Watson arrive at King's Pyland, from which Silver Blaze is missing. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker. ![]() The body of John Straker, 1893 illustration by W. The plotting hinges on the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time": The tale is distinguished by its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and late-Victorian sporting milieu. 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The synopsis of “The Final Gambit” teases, “As the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help - and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. As a condition of Avery’s inheritance, she’s required to live in the house with the Hawthorne brothers for a year, which proves to be challenging. ![]() In “ The Final Gambit,” readers will finally receive the conclusion to the mystery of the deceased billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, his four enigmatic grandsons and Avery Grambs - a broke teenager with seemingly no connection to the Hawthornes who has inherited Tobias’ estate, while his family was left high and dry. 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