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10 best books like The Night Calls (David Pirie): Basil and the Pygmy Cats, The Angel of the Opera, The Whitechapel Horrors, The Consulting Detective Trilogy Part I: University, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions, The Seventh Bullet, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes

Basil and the Pygmy Cats
AuthorEve Titus
ISBN0671641190
I liked the idea of the story in this one better, but it is definitely a product of its time. The title was clearly changed, as it should have been, from its original, but that also doesn't change the content from being something that wouldn't get published today. This is one to definitley talk about with...
The Angel of the Opera
AuthorSam Siciliano
ISBN1883402468
The unforgettable place: Paris, 1890. The glittering scene: the labyrinthine Paris Opera. The irresistible premise: what if Sherlock Holmes, lured across the Channel by the beleaguered managers of the Opera House, unlocks the true secrets motivating the infamous Phantom? As the hunchbacked Quasimodo...
The Whitechapel Horrors
AuthorEdward B. Hanna
ISBN0881848611
Edward B. Hanna brings Sherlock Holmes stunningly back to life in this homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great creation. The Whitechapel Horrors, with its spellbinding story and atmospheric prose, is the best new Holmes adventure since Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Here Hanna imagines the characters...
The Consulting Detective Trilogy Part I: University
AuthorDarlene A. Cypser
Mysterious deaths, a blackmail ring, a ship named "Gloria Scott" and the mysteries of his own mind face Sherlock Holmes while he studies at the University of Cambridge.

It was some time before Sherlock Holmes recovered from the events of late 1871. Physically, it took many months; mentally,...
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions
AuthorH. Paul Jeffers
ISBN1848565097
NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW

In this story, written by future President Theodore Roosevelt long before The Great Detective’s first encounter with Dr Watson, Holmes visits America to solve a most violent and despicable crime. A crime that was to prove the most taxing of his brilliant career...

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The Seventh Bullet
AuthorDaniel D. Victor
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out-of-print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes’ career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling...
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders
AuthorLarry Millett
Sherlock Holmes rides again in this delightful mystery, based on another newly discovered manuscript. The year is 1896, and St. Paul's magnificent Winter Carnival is underway when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city's most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. It seems a wealthy young...
The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorLeah Moore
ISBN1606900587
Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective Sherlock Holmes returns in an all-new adventure! Holmes himself is the prime suspect in a murder mystery, and while he fights to save his very life, Watson must assemble the pieces of the puzzle in his stead. Will Watson's efforts save his friend or condemn him?...
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorJ.R. Campbell
ISBN1894063600
Introduction: I hear of Sherlock everywhere / Charles Prepolec --
The comfort of the Seine / Stephen Volk --
The adventure of Lucifer's footprints / Christopher Fowler --
The deadly sin of Sherlock Holmes / Tom English --
The color that came to Chiswick / William Meikle --
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Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorCharles Prepolec
ISBN1894063171
Contents:
 
Interior artwork by Phil Cornell

001 - "Ghosts May Apply" an essay by David Stuart Davies
006 - Introduction: An Introductory Rumination on Stories for Which the World is Not Yet Prepared by Charles Prepolec
015 - "The Lost Boy" by Barbara Hambly
041 - "His...
Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula
AuthorStephen Seitz
ISBN1780921705
Bram Stoker's "Dracula" told only part of the story. "Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula" recounts the Great Detective's search for Jonathan Harker, his confrontation with the Count, the truth behind the Great Hiatus, and Dracula's terrible legacy.

After Mina Murray asks Sherlock...
Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus
AuthorP.C. Martin
In an alternative Steampunk universe (c.1885), the plans for Captain Nemo's mysterious Nautilus submarine have been stolen from the British Secret Service. There is only one man who can solve the case, Sherlock Holmes. With his bionic side-kick Doctor Watson, and his brilliant and lethal sister,...
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
AuthorMichael Kurland
ISBN0312351569
In 1891, Sherlock Holmes, in a death struggle with his archenemy Professor Moriarty, disappeared over Reichenbach Falls and was presumed dead. Until, that is, he reappeared in London in 1894. Holmes remained mostly quiet on the events of those years and for over a century speculation has run riot about...
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective
AuthorDonald Serrell Thomas
ISBN1605981346
"Have you ever seen a ghost, Mr. Holmes?" asks Victoria Temple, and Sherlock Holmes, at the height of his powers in 1898, must face a new challenge, one that plunges the great detective into the realm of the supernatural. Miss Temple has been found guilty--but also insane--at her trial for murdering...
The Limehouse Text
AuthorWill Thomas
ISBN0743273354
In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing...
The Black Dove
AuthorSteve Hockensmith
ISBN0312347820
In the summer of 1893, Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of “deducifying.” But when they...
The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorJune Thomson
ISBN0749003294
As Dr Watson's secret manuscripts are revealed to the public, a multitude of previously unseen cases come to light. An American millionaire receives threatening letters from a sinister Black Hand...A mysterious box terrifies a shopkeeper...Holmes and Watson feel the influence of an old enemy from...
The Revenge of Moriarty
AuthorJohn Gardner
ISBN0399116648
Now back in print after forty years: The second novel in John Gardner's bestselling series of Victorian crime thrillers pitting Sherlock Holmes against the Napoleon of crime, Professor James Moriarty.

With riches accumulated from an American crime spree, Professor Moriarty proceeds...
The Will of the Dead
AuthorGeorge Mann
ISBN1781160015
A young man named Peter Maugram appears at the front door of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson’s Baker Street lodgings. Maugram’s uncle is dead and his will has disappeared, leaving the man afraid that he will be left penniless. Holmes agrees to take the case and he and Watson dig deep into the murky past...
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