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THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND ENTENTE. In June of 1901, a wealthy young nobleman is murdered and yet again Scotland Yard requires help from Sherlock Holmes. The baron has recently returned from an expedition searching for oil in Persia. His only relative and sole heir, a woman from California is the obvious suspect. But then she comes to Sherlock Holmes desperately seeking his help. If she did not kill the man, then who did? Join Holmes, Watson and an unusual woman as they seek to solve the crime and avoid becoming victims themselves. The story is a tribute to the original Sherlock Holmes ...

It was the most expensive diamond in the world. When she gave out the school prizes, she was wearing it. When she entered her private railway car, she was wearing it. Then chaos arrived. People died. When the smoke had cleared, she was not wearing it. The Hope Diamond had vanished. Scotland Yard sent their best men to investigate. They did not ask Sherlock Holmes for help. The insurance company did. “Mr. Holmes, the victims of murder are not our concern. The Hope Diamond is. It was insured for £250,000. Please find it for us.” Sherlock Holmes recruits four new Irregulars and together ...

THREE NEW PASTICHE MYSTERY STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE. These stories are shorter than the other novels in the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries series and were published in response to invitations to contribute to anthologies of Sherlockian stories. In ‘The Adventure of the Humble Mr. Hier,’ Sherlock Holmes encounters the famous Mr. and Mrs. Micawber from ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens. They have returned to England from Australia in pursuit of justice and call upon our hero to help them. ‘The Adventure of Blood and Fire’ is a fictional story about an ...

Reader: Do you remember Lady Frances Carfax from my account of her two years ago? Do you recall how she was very nearly murdered by being buried alive? I thought you might. She’s back. She returned to 221B Baker Street a few weeks back asking for help from Sherlock Holmes. She acknowledged that years earlier she gave birth to a love child. That child has now been kidnapped and a ransom demand has been received. If not paid, the child, who is now a young woman, will suffer the same fate and Lady Carfax almost did two years ago. She will be buried alive. Holmes and I set off to Europe to ...

The Adventure of the Coiffured Bitches. A young woman about to receive a massive inheritance disappears. Her little brother believes she has become a zombie and is trapped in the graveyard. His governess knows something is very wrong in the strange family. She appeals to Sherlock Holmes …who she finds rather attractive. Holmes and Watson travel to Winchester. We encounter a tyrannical stepfather, a weird mother, twisted servants, and an earnest lover … or two. Not to mention the enormous mastiff that could tear our throats out. This New Sherlock Holmes Mystery is a tribute to The ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVILISH FOOTNOTE. The wealthy owner/publisher of England's most prestigious literary journal holds a soirée for the writers, critics and intelligentsia of London (modelled on the Bloomsbury Group) and is poisoned by one of the departing guests. Her brilliant secretary/editor almost dies too. Scotland Yard calls for Sherlock Holmes and he soon discovers that almost everyone in the literary world wanted the woman dead. Holmes starts to investigate, but matters become complicated when Dr. Watson, now a widower, becomes romantically attracted to the editor. Then more of ...

The Grecian, Earned Wilson Kemp and Harold Latimer, the villains from the story of The Greek Interpreter, ran off to Budapest, Where they were stabbed multiple times … and died. The killer ran away … a long way away. Holmes and Watson go to Budapest. They meet with one of Holmes’s former assistants … one who is smart, but despised. The trail then takes then to Athens, Where the first Olympic Games in modern times will soon take place. Something is not right. A massive fraud? Cheating to win gold for national pride? Only one thing is for certain … timeo danaos et dona ferentes. ...

“Watson, wake up. We have a visitor.”,/ I felt the firm but friendly hand of Sherlock Holmes on my shoulder, forcing me awake. I pulled on my dressing gown and stumbled into the front room of 221B Baker Street. A young and exceptionally beautiful woman sat the sofa. “I have come to see you, Mr. Holmes, because the members of my family are conspiring to murder me.” “Are they now?” said Holmes. “And why would they want to do that?” “Because I am young, beautiful and brilliant; because I control the family estate following the recent death of my father; and because I utterly ...

A senior government official falls dead, almost into Sherlock Holmes’s lap. He was in charge of awarding contracts for major government projects, worth millions of pounds. They were to be announced in three weeks. Somebody wanted to disrupt the awards. A contract worth over a million pounds is a reason to commit murder. The official grew up in Fulworth, the same town where a man died after being stung by the creepy, deadly giant jellyfish Holmes wrote about in The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane. The characters from that story, especially the peerless Sussex beauty, Maud, agree to help ...

Enter four mysterious Holmes adventures at Christmas time A special Christmas present to Sherlockians. Four New Sherlock Holmes Mysterious at a great discount. This volume includes four previously published stories all bundled together for the holiday season. The single volume includes: The Adventure of Blood and Fire, The Adventure of the Not-Very-Merry Widows, The Baffling Adventure of Baby Jesus, and The Adventure of Mrs. J.L. Heber. All four for under two dollars. Click, download, and enjoy.

The Stock Market Murders. A clever Cambridge graduate who works in The City goes missing. Two of his classmates are found murdered. Holmes investigates and finds that all of them were caught up in the greatest fraud ever visited upon the citizens of England. The tentacles of the financial empire behind it reach to the far corners of the globe. In London, they are wrapped around the construction of the new Bakerloo Underground line. Millions of pounds are about to vanish. The characters and actions in the story are borrowed from the historical events surrounding the life of James Whittaker ...

SHERLOCK HOLMES is the world’s most famous detective. For over 100 years, his adventures have been read by millions of people like you—people who care about seeing evildoers brought to justice, seeing a brilliant mind at work, and knowing that, in the end, good will triumph. Return to London in one of the most fascinating eras of history. The Victorian world abounds with murderers, cheaters, swindlers, imposters, lost souls seeking revenge, villains wanting illegal profit from inheritance, and those who are falsely accused and in desperate need of help from Sherlock Holmes. These ...

“Holmes, this is more dangerous than anything Moriarty could have imagined “Precisely,” said Holmes. This new adventure began with a single counterfeit £100 note. Scotland Yard demanded that Sherlock Holmes take the case. Soon, there were many more counterfeit notes, coming back to England from all corners of the Empire. Then a man’s dead body appeared in a church graveyard, with counterfeit notes in his pocket. The next day, Holmes and Watson are off to Europe in search of a dangerous conspiracy who are threatening the security of the British Empire. Holmes will need help if he is...

Six students receive death threats. For a lark over the summer, they wrote a satirical book. It made fun of the crimes and foibles of a fictional baron. Some real baron somewhere does not think it’s funny. They got too much of his story right. And now he is out to kill them. They appeal to Sherlock Holmes. But he is too busy with his bees, and so he sends Dr. Watson. What Watson discovers is terrifying. Soon he, Holmes and the students are in a race against time to unmask the villain and take him down before more lives are destroyed. This New Sherlock Holmes Mystery is the 55th in the ...

Scientists who specialize in biology are supposed to be rational. Devout Christians are supposed to be loving and forgiving. In July 1925, they both failed. That was the summer when John Scopes was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching about human evolution. Every major newspaper in America carried the story. When proponents of both sides of the battle ended up dead, Dr. Tabitha, a scientist and a believer, was called in. Was the battle worth killing your opponents? Some people thought so. The future of the nation was at stake. Would America be God-fearing? Or God forsaken? Or could ...

You enjoy historical mysteries? You love Sherlock Holmes? This is for you. Four new novels in one collection set. All are part of the best-selling series of sixty New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Craig Stephen Copland. In this set you can read The Stock Market Murders in which Holmes and Watson solve the mysterious murders of several young men who worked in The City; The Glorious Yacht, when on the morning after the Titanic disaster, Holmes recalls a much earlier sea voyage when they were accompanied by a crew of famous pirates; The Most grave Ritual, where a young man is accused of murder ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORESS'S TALE. A GIRLS' SCHOOL HOCKEY TEAM VANISHES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. CAN SHERLOCK HOLMES FIND THEM IN TIME? The senior field hockey team from an elite girls’ school goes to Dover for a beach holiday … and disappears. Have they been abducted into White Slavery? Did they run off to Paris? Are they being held for ransom? Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, the Prioress of the school, and a new gang of Irregulars must find them before something terrible happens. A tribute to The Adventure of the Priory School in The Canon. “A ...

When a man’s beautiful, beloved daughter dies, A part of his soul dies with her. When that daughter dies at the hands of a murderer, That man’s mind is filled with a burning fire for justice, for revenge. When the local police shrug off the murder as a random robbery gone wrong, When the local populace gossip about the daughter being a victim of an evil vampire, That man turns to Sherlock Holmes. On a miserable morning in June of 1898, the body of Elizabeth Cleaves-Bedford was discovered in the corner of the family orchard. Her throat had been punctured and her body entirely drained of ...

“I have heard it in the wind," said the prophet. "Someone will die. Murdered. Soon. Only you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, can stop it.” The man who uttered these words had forced his way up the stairs and into 221B Baker Street. At first, I thought he was merely mad. He was dirty, disheveled and only somewhat coherent. Yet there was in his eyes a burning intelligence, a passion, and an unholy fear. “Who is going to die?” asked Holmes. “That has not been revealed to me. All I know is that you, Sherlock Holmes, must save that life.” Holmes was about to ask more questions when the ...

The Naval Knaves. On September 15, 1894, an anarchist attempted to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. All he succeeded in blowing up was himself. But he did not act alone. Sherlock Holmes discovers that he was part of an intricate web of spies, foreign naval officers, and a drop-dead-gorgeous, not-English princess. Once again, suspicion lands on poor Percy Phelps. Now he’s in a senior position in the Admiralty. Holmes has to rescue Percy, But he has a much bigger worry. A massive, terrorist explosion is planned. It will take many lives. But where? And when? This New Sherlock Holmes Mystery ...