The Return of Moriarty
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Author | Sam Siciliano |
ISBN | 1883402468 |
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...
One of the cornerstone books in any serious Sherlockian bookshelf, and my copy is personally inscribed by Otto Penzler. It doesn’t get much better than that! This is one of the books in Otto Penzler’s Sherlock Holmes Library, a reissue of eight previously hard to find classics from the earlier age...
Author | Isaac Asimov |
ISBN | 0312944012 |
In this outstanding collection of Sherlockian tales, the master of detection solves the most fantastic cases of his career. Herein are answered questions which have plagued loyal readers for decades, including: What is the truth about the mysterious menace of Sumatra? What occurs when Holmes must...
Author | Darlene A. Cypser |
ISBN | 0971855250 |
If someone had asked Sherlock Holmes later in the year, there is little doubt that he would have said his life began that spring day in 1871 when he met Violet Rushdale upon the moors and ended in the winter some months distant. His mother would have disputed the former claim, and many, both friend and foe,...
Author | H. Paul Jeffers |
ISBN | 1848565097 |
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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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...
Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
ISBN | 0881844357 |
The game is afoot! This satisfying collection of original stories by sixteen top mystery writers is a tribute to the creator of Sherlock Holmes. These new adventures are the only ones to be specially authorised by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, celebrating the centennial of Holmes' first appearance in print.
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Author | Ken Greenwald |
ISBN | 1566195403 |
When radio broadcasts of the Sherlock Holmes stories were first aired in the 1940s, the avid - and the occasional - Holmes readers were all thrilled. Although the early radio scripts were based on the Conan Doyle stories, they often dealt with questions unanswered by the original stories.
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Author | Mike Hogan |
ISBN | 1780923252 |
It’s Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee but festive celebrations are not the only thing afoot in this riveting and exciting read by Mike Hogan.
I couldn't help by find myself thoroughly engaged throughout this novel. I enjoyed that Mike didn’t just make use of the classic canonical characters...
Author | Duane Swierczynski |
ISBN | 1594741999 |
After the rooms at 221B Baker Street are set ablaze—and a mutilated corpse is discovered in the wreckage—Dr. John H. Watson is arrested and imprisoned at Coldbath Fields penitentiary. Writing from a cramped and dimly lit cell, Watson describes the mysterious events leading up to his arrest. Someone...
Author | Stephen Kendrick |
ISBN | 0375403671 |
In this brilliantly crafted pastiche, Stephen Kendrick brings Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown together in an unprecedented collaboration on a singularly shocking murder case.
It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest’s mutilated body has been found in a London church that is hosting a...
Author | June Thomson |
ISBN | 0749011432 |
In Sherlock Holmes 's London, reputations are fragile and scandal can be ruinous. In order to protect the names of the good (and not-so-good), Dr. Watson comes to the decision that his accounts of some of his friend 's most brilliant cases must never see the light of day. Concealing the manuscripts in...
Author | Martin Powell |
ISBN | 1434207552 |
Late one night, Sir Charles Baskerville is attacked outside his castle in Dartmoor, England. Could it be the Hound of the Baskervilles, a legendary creature that haunts the nearby moor? Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, is on the case. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for...
Author | Stephen Seitz |
ISBN | 1780921705 |
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...
Author | David Pirie |
ISBN | 0312291043 |
As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle-the creator of Sherlock Holmes-studied under one of the pioneers in forensic medicine, Dr. Joseph Bell. While details of Doyle’s actual relationship with the Doctor remain shrouded in mystery, author David Pirie has created an engrossing series...
Author | Robert Lee Hall |
ISBN | 0872165116 |
Ever wondered just what was the relationship between Holmes and Moriarty? Why no one has ever seen the two of them together? Well, here's your answer. As Moriarty himself puts it: 'We are closer than brothers - and further apart than any two beings can be.' This non-Doyle pastiche continues the Sherlock...
Author | Ian Edginton |
ISBN | 1906838054 |
A wealthy American businessman is murdered in his English manor house, his head blown off by a double-barrelled shotgun - whodunit and why?
The Valley of Fear is one of the better Sherlock Holmes stories but it’s still a fairly mediocre read. It’s a fine story of revenge and intrigue full...
Author | Michael Kurland |
ISBN | 0450045609 |
From the twisting alleyways of Constantinople to the teeming streets of London's East End...
A spectre is haunting Europe. A man who is both fiend and genius. His name is Trepoff. His creed is anarchy.
Abduction, assassination, atrocity mark his path across Europe.
The...