John Raffensperger

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2013
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Diary of Young Arthur Conan Doyle

1 - Adventures in the Wild West 1878 (Jun-2017)
2 - Adventures in Russia 1881 (Sep-2017)
3 - Adventures in America 1883 (Nov-2017)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Eagle Tree

    The Eagle Tree provides a blueprint for how children can become active in protecting the environment. This adventure story is about a shy boy from Chicago whose family sends him to live with his grandfather on an island off the coast of Florida. When...

  • The Doctor's Apprentice

    The Doctor's Apprentice is a young adult novel that takes place during the 1870s when most doctors ridiculed the idea that germs caused disease. Sandy Ford, a small river town in southern Illinois, appeared tranquil, but the Ku Klux Klan terrorized e...

  • Capone's Diamond

    Tom Davis wanted to be a surgeon more than anything else in the world. After losing a patient while he served in Korea, Davis knew his only chance was to regain confidence in his surgical abilities. Back in Chicago post-service, he picked up his care...

  • Don't Hang My Friend

    Young teenage boy living in southern Illinois during the post-Civil War era encounters Ku Klux Klan hostility. Klan threatens to hang his friend a former slave for an involvement in the killing of a rabid dog owned by Klan member. Young man rouses to...

  • Adventures in the Wild West 1878

    Diary of Young Arthur Conan Doyle - 1

    Here is the first of the “lost” diaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1878 while he was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. This rollicking story of high adventure begins with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...

  • Adventures in Russia 1881

    Diary of Young Arthur Conan Doyle - 2

    Here is the second of the "lost" diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1881 while he was a twenty-two-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In this rollicking story of high adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a...

  • Adventures in America 1883

    Diary of Young Arthur Conan Doyle - 3

    Here is the third of the "lost" diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1883 while he was a young doctor starting out in his career. This rollicking story of high adventure tells of how Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with th...

  • Sherlock Holmes at Lincoln's Tomb

    The recently unearthed diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle provide evidence, if not proof of the that Doyle knew Sherlock Holmes as early as 1878, when Holmes was working in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell at the University of Edinburgh. The re...

  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction: Heal or Kill takes place in a small Illinois town in 1871, portraying life in rural America. The novel reveals the prejudices against freed slaves during the post-Civil War era, when the KKK was terrorizing freed slaves.Tom, a tee...



  • Missing in Action

    Missing in Action is the sequel to Reconstruction: Heal or Kill. By 1885, the army had subdued the Plains Indians, but Geronimo's Apaches were on the loose. They raided, looted, and murdered along the border between Arizona and Mexico and disappe...

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Plot To Assassinate The Tsar

    The recently discovered diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle contain the startling adventures of Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Edinburgh surgeon, Joseph Bell in Russia during 1881. At the time, Holmes, a medical school dropout, had become a skill...

  • The Deadly Blue Diamond

    The Deadly Blue Diamond, a fast-paced thriller, pits a young surgeon against vicious mobsters, crooked cops, and Chicago politicians. Little Louie, who killed his first man at age fifteen, organized a robbery to steal the Blue Diamond, a power symbol...

  • Jennifer the Flying Alligator

    Jennifer, a young alligator, was smaller and different from her brothers and sisters. She did not eat frogs and small dogs, but liked spaghetti and tacos. One day a big cousin who normally lived at the deep end of the pond chased Jennifer and tried t...

  • Red Tide

    Red Tide is the story of Peter, a shy, dreamy city boy, who learns the beauty of nature and copes with his mother's illness while living with his grandfather on an island off the coast of Florida. His grandfather, a retired doctor, and Andrea, a girl...

  • The Death of Sherlock Holmes

    The previous diaries of Arthur Conan Doyle tell of the shadowy real life Sherlock Holmes, a medical school dropout. While in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell, a brilliant Edinburgh surgeon, Holmes learned anatomy, surgery, observation and deduction....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Raffensperger has published 15 books.

John Raffensperger does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Death of Sherlock Holmes, was published in June 2022.

The first book by John Raffensperger, The Eagle Tree, was published in October 2013.

Yes. John Raffensperger has 1 series.
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