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10 best books like The Stuff of Nightmares (James Lovegrove): Where They Bury You, The Army of Dr. Moreau, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions, Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver, A Betrayal in Blood, Deadly Diamonds, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Star of India, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes

Where They Bury You
AuthorSteven W. Kohlhagen
In August 1863, during Kit Carson’s roundup of the Navajo, Santa Fe’s Marshal is found dead in an arroyo near what is now the Hubbel Trading Post. The murder, and the roughly million of today’s dollars in cash and belongings in his saddlebags, is historically factual. Carson’s actual explanation...
The Army of Dr. Moreau
AuthorGuy Adams
ISBN0857689339
Following the trail of several corpses seemingly killed by wild animals, Holmes and Watson stumble upon the experiments of Doctor Moreau. 

Moreau, through vivisection and crude genetic engineering is creating animal hybrids, determined to prove the evolutionary theories of Charles...
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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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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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver
AuthorSam Siciliano
ISBN0857686984
When a mysterious gypsy places a cruel curse on the guests at a ball and a series of terrible misfortunes begin to affect those who attended that night, Mr. Donald Wheelwight engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what really happened that fateful evening.

With the help of his cousin Dr. Henry Vernier...
A Betrayal in Blood
AuthorMark A. Latham
When Sherlock Holmes acquires the fabled 'Dracula Papers', the stage is set for the greatest battle of wits since Reichenbach. Why did five men really pursue an innocent Transylvanian nobleman to the ends of the earth? Who was really behind the murders that would have every man in England whispering...
Deadly Diamonds
AuthorJohn F. Dobbyn
ISBN1608090922
What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can...
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Star of India
AuthorC.E. Lawrence
ISBN0857681214
Holmes and Watson find themselves caught up in a complex chess board of a problem, involving a clandestine love affair and the disappearance of a priceless sapphire.

Professor James Moriarty is back to tease and torment, leading the duo on a chase through the dark and dangerous back streets...
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0440000424
Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread... A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives... And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street’s enigmatic mystery-solver and Greystoke, the...
The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorDenis O. Smith
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most beloved detectives ever created and many have been inspired to continue his adventures after Sir Conan Doyle's death. In that spirit, The Mammoth Book of The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes brings together some of the more than two dozen stories that Denis O. Smith—regarded...
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Counterfeit Detective
AuthorStuart Douglas
ISBN1783299258
An anonymous telegram brings strange news to Baker Street; there is an impostor Sherlock Holmes at work in New York City, solving cases and taking society by storm. The real Sherlock Holmes, fresh from an undercover mission for his enigmatic brother Mycroft, wastes no time in crossing the Atlantic...
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...
The Patchwork Devil
AuthorCavan Scott
London, 1919. While the world awaits the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Holmes and Watson are called to a singular mystery. A severed hand has been found on the banks of the Thames, a hand belonging to a soldier who supposedly died in the trenches two years previously. But the hand is fresh, and show...
Letters From a Murderer
AuthorJohn Matthews
ISBN1909223379
New York, 1891: a rapidly changing city, torn between lamplight and electric light, where the burgeoning steel and railway industries attract a flood of humanity from every corner of the globe, fuelling cut-throat gangs, corruption and vice.

A prostitute is found brutally murdered. Immediately...
Seduction of the Innocent
AuthorMax Allan Collins
ISBN0857687484
It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent...
The Aylesford Skull
AuthorJames P. Blaylock
ISBN0857689797
It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard.

In Aylesford itself...
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ripper Legacy
AuthorDavid Stuart Davies
ISBN1783296607
David Stuart Davies latest addition to Titan's Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series is a ripper, pun completely intended.

Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the kidnapping of a child. This is no ordinary kidnapping, as he discovers when Mycroft becomes involved.

Some...
The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes
AuthorRaymond Benson
ISBN1608090728
The Black Stiletto returns in the third book of the thrilling new series. It’s 1960 and the Black Stiletto, in her civilian persona as Judy Cooper, volunteers to work for JFK’s presidential campaign, only to become involved in a devious behind-the-scenes plot that could change the course of history....
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