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Title: "The Children of Sherlock Holmes"
Author: Dr. Ben F. Eller
Publisher: Pendium Publishing House
ISBN # 978-0-9816883-0-5
TItle "The Children of Sherlock Holmes" - Dr. Ben F. Eller
Synopsis
The novel is a Sherlock Holmes mystery set against the backdrop of 1890's
England . . . one of the most intriguing and contradictory eras in human
history. Their nation's scholars produced literature, art, and music to the
wonderment of humankind as twenty thousand abandoned homeless children roamed
their nation's capitol. Ten thousand more toiled fourteen-hour days in
wretched factories. Seven hundred of one thousand poor children died before
the age of five.
In such an unjust society Holmes confronts the exploitation, enslavement and
murder of children in an underworld of perverse corruption that extends from
unimaginable working conditions in factories to flesh merchants of the Middle
East to the highest levels of English government. Holmes is driven to the edge
of madness as he examines the desperate lives of factory children attempting to
survive a web of corrupt politicians, factory owners and an indifferent
society.
Bio
Ben Eller currently resides in Cullowhee, North Carolina. HIs professional
career has been primarily in academe . . . Associate Professor of Psychology,
East Tennessee State University and Professor/Program Chair (Professor
Emeritus), Educational Technology, University of Alabama. He earned a
Bachelor's in Mathematics from Milligan College and MS and doctorate in
Educational Psychology from the University of Tennessee. He worked with the
Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee while attending graduate
school.
Ben has published in the areas of child abuse, autism, disruptive children and
adolescents, and ecucational technology. He published a textbook with
Wadsworth Publishing and has written two novels and two movie scripts. "The
Children of Sherlock Holmes" (historical fiction) and "The Cleansing" (science
fiction). He has two children, a daughter Elizabeth and a son Todd. His
hobbies include running, tennis, biking, frequent trips to Vegas and of course
his love of writing.
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