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With the arrival of 1887, Sherlock Holmes's reputation had begun to grow. Now, in the year of the classic tales "The Reigate Squires" and "The Five Orange Pips", Holmes is becoming ever more sure of himself –– a trend that will continue as we make our way through his literary chronology. The game is afoot!

A young provincial journalist receives a telephone call from a man who won’t give his name. Anticipating the scoop of his career, Marcus Cunningham arranges to meet the informant at Liverpool Street station. Subsequent events quickly draw in Scotland Yard detectives Chief Inspector Philip Bryce and his colleague Sergeant Alex Haig, as they conduct a complex murder investigation.

The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes presents eight new stories about Holmes which set the great detective against the background of Victorian England, an era of enormous progress, in science, transport, and medicine but which also witnessed a surge in urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each of the stories in this collection engages with an aspect of this background.

STAND-ALONE, #18 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." A BLIND EYE TURNED, AN INJUSTICE DONE. High in lonely Swinesdale, notorious burglars Jake and Boris Baddun perish in a burnt-out stolen Mercedes. Known associate Dale Spooner leaves his biological signature and the predatory DI Alec Smart moves in for the kill. Spooner is convicted, and now languishes in jail. A rumour reaches Skelgill: Spooner is innocent and can prove it – a cast-iron alibi, a video on a hidden mobile phone. But Spooner will not talk. At stake is the safety of ...

NEW FOR 2022 – STAND-ALONE, #19 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." EVIL LIES UNDETECTED. When shepherd Jud Hope finds an American passport in a fox’s earth, a connection is made to an unidentified fatality – an elderly female walker who fell to her death in a treacherous rocky gill near Ambleside. Meanwhile, a spate of ‘nighthawker’ incidents sees ancient monuments desecrated under cover of darkness. The spotlight falls upon Derek Shaw, a museum curator exploring Cumbria’s Roman heritage. Onto this stage emerges a ...

A brutal attack at Fakenham Racecourse plunges DI Ashley Knight into the competitive world of horse racing, where fortunes are won and lost in the blink of an eye. As the investigation unfolds, a chilling discovery reveals a darker side to this glamorous sport. In these high-stakes arenas, where winning is everything and everyone has something to hide, a few are willing to cross the ultimate line.

January 1313. As London is gripped by a freezing winter, Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game of kings played out between the English and French courts. Years earlier, Corbett prevented a gang of rifflers from breaking into the Royal Treasury, but the leading chieftain, Sarasin, escaped. Now Sarasin is caught killing a squire of Queen Isabella's and Corbett swiftly has the riffler tried and hanged from the signpost of The Twilight tavern.

NEW FOR 2023 – STAND-ALONE, #20 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." AN ATTEMPTED MURDER in the United States … a tragic road death in a Cumbrian forest … an old photograph stolen from an ancient coaching inn. Unrelated events – until a midnight drowning below Ouse Bridge exposes a connection. After two decades, has a killer returned to Cumbria to ply their trade? Does a suspect hide in plain sight among loose acquaintances? Who is truthful and who is lying? Skelgill must patiently circle … until finally he picks up ...

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear… underpants. Meet Max Briefly and the elite, elastic-clad team known as Brief Force—a squad so secret, even their underwear has clearance levels. When the world’s most embarrassing mysteries threaten civilization—vanishing laundry, rogue dryers, static-cling insurgencies—it’s up to them to restore order one waistband at a time. From laser-guided boxer raids to emotionally unstable sock puppets, Operation Underpants is an uproariously suspenseful journey through the world’s strangest fashion crimes. Packed with humor, heart, and more briefs ...

A haunting past. A town with secrets. A debt that refuses to die. When John Miller retreats to an isolated coastal town to escape the ghosts of his past, he never expects those ghosts to follow. Twenty years after a tragic accident, strange whispers fill his home, unsettling symbols appear, and shadows move where no one stands. As John digs deeper into the town’s dark history, he uncovers a chilling connection between his own guilt and an ancient curse that has haunted the cliffs for generations. But someone—or something—is determined to keep the past buried. And the more John learns,...

I den første bog om mesterdetektiven Sherlock Holmes er vi med, da dr. Watson møder den excentriske mand for første gang og beslutter at dele en lejlighed på Baker Street med ham. Der går ikke længe, før makkerparret bliver involveret i en indviklet og drabelig sag, da en mand bliver dræbt under mystiske omstændigheder. Sagen fører Sherlock Holmes til Utah i USA, hvor den viser sig at have uhyggelige forbindelser til mormoner og flerkoneri. Den nye komplette Sherlock Holmes-udgave består af ni bind svarende til de ni originale bøger.

Il maresciallo Alfredo Mantegazza arriva sulla scena del crimine con una gran voglia di fumare. Ma ha smesso, ormai da qualche tempo, ed è sempre più nervoso, nonostante le sigarette elettroniche, il cane Ruben, le lavatrici che scandiscono la sua vita solitaria: le ha provate tutte, ma nulla riesce a calmarlo. Roberto Riva, un giovane di trent'anni, ultimo erede di un impero industriale, è stato trovato morto nelle acque ghiacciate del Lago Segrino, all'estremo confine della Brianza comasca e lecchese.

A suspicious obituary. A powerful family. A reporter who won’t stay silent. 1923, London. Evelyn Everly has a title she never uses, a past she won’t discuss, and a rent payment she can barely afford. When the ambitious young woman bluffs her way into a job at a struggling newspaper, she expects to cover flower shows and factory tours—not murder. But when an obituary crosses her desk that doesn’t quite add up, Evelyn’s instincts kick in. The death of a society darling is ruled a tragic accident, yet whispers of scandal—and something darker—refuse to stay buried. Against her ...

In the misty fells of England's Lake District, where ancient paths wind through deceptive terrain, DI Tobias Stone has returned to his childhood home after years with the Metropolitan Police, seeking quieter surroundings but finding deadly secrets instead. What appears to be a tragic accident—experienced fell guide Michael Thompson found dead on Helvellyn—soon reveals inconsistencies that only someone intimate with the mountains would notice. When Stone discovers Thompson was about to report safety violations that threatened a rival's business, the investigation plunges into the close-...

A burglar is found shot dead in the home of Viscount Tallis, a wealthy industrialist. The man was equipped with a stethoscope, and appears to have been attempting to open a safe in the study. Tallis himself is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, on his way to America on Government business. Although various members of his family are present in the house, together with guests, nobody has access to the safe – nobody even knows what it might contain. It isn't even clear if the safebreaker succeeded in opening it. Detective Inspector Tommy Rees is given the case. Rees is approaching ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #16 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."NOBODY SAW HER. NOBODY CAN FIND HER. When 37-year-old Lisa Jackson sets out for work one Friday morning she is in high spirits. Things are going well with her new boyfriend. But when she does not reach her desk, or answer her mobile phone, her colleagues and family raise the alarm. Suspicion immediately falls on co-worker Ray Piper. A married man, he and Lisa have recently ended an affair. But steely-eyed Piper denies any knowledge of Lisa’s disappearance.Yet...

When crime creeps into the drawing rooms of the elite, even Sherlock Holmes must tread carefully. In this new collection, Watson recounts cases where Holmes was drawn into the glittering — and treacherous — world of London’s high society. Behind every curtsey and champagne toast lies scandal, deception, and murder. From grand balls to fox hunts, country estates to gentlemen’s clubs, the great detective must navigate etiquette as deftly as evidence, with Watson as his ever-steady guide through a landscape of whispered threats and deadly secrets. A vanished viscount. A deadly ...

Lauren Meddes and Natalie Roberts thought they had escaped the nightmare that haunted them in Sunderland. But when the shadows of their past began to close in, they find themselves drawn into a web of terror that threatens to consume them. As the bodies pile up, each murder more grotesque than the last, Lauren must confront the demons that lurk in the darkness and unravel the twisted mind of a killer who sees her as the final piece of his masterpiece. In a city where the night hides unspeakable horrors, Lauren's struggle for survival becomes a desperate race against time. The killer's ...

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery, which, if he’s not careful, will be aimed squarely at him.

In 1950, a death occurs under the uniquely-banded cliffs in Hunstanton. It is soon realised that this is a case of murder, but the Norfolk police inspector runs into difficulties, and Scotland Yard DCI Philip Bryce finds himself back in the county for the second time in a matter of months. A local amateur detective with a considerable knowledge of murder cases (both real and fictional) is determined to help the police, and comes up with various suggestions. However, initially neither he nor the police seem to be able to pin all the usual key elements – means, motive, and opportunity – ...