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Don your deerstalker cap and escape back to a late-Victorian yesteryear amid the melodious notes of a well-tuned Stradivarius, with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus One, which brings together the first eight stories in the ongoing accounts of a number of Holmes’ adventures that were until recently lost to time, only to be rediscovered in our own age. Travel along from the dark heart of Whitechapel, and to the wide-open moors of Yorkshire…. Read of an allegedly cursed statue inside a Neo-Gothic museum…. Enter a decaying house beside the Thames whose walls are ...

Journey back to the foggy streets of Victorian London, via The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Nine! Here fans of the great Sherlock Holmes will find the game afoot in three stand-alone novellas, and two previously unpublished vignettes available for the first time only in this collection. Included are: The Case of the French Convent, in which Holmes and Watson, in Paris at the behest of the French government, are approached by a young nun who begs their aid in the return of a priceless artifact stolen from her convent in rural Normandy…. The Tragedy of the Zoologia ...

Written as a remembrance during the three years in which a grieving Watson believes his friend Sherlock Holmes has died battling Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, this case presents a mysterious figure who crossed paths with the great detective in an adversarial capacity, and whom Watson believes can only remain a puzzle, ill-explained even by the passing of some five years: a beguiling and enigmatic sensualist named Dorian Gray. Acting on behalf of a young woman whose experiences with Dorian Gray have left her with deep emotional wounds, Holmes finds himself caught up in a ...

Dr. Watson is startled one day by Holmes’ news of an audacious train robbery, which occurred overnight on the wind-swept moors of Yorkshire. With haste the pair proceed north only to find the case which lies before them is far stranger than logic or common sense would dictate. Watson wonders aloud why the thieves would have carried out so daring a raid when the jewels aboard the train could have been gotten to in a far easier manner back in London.

Slip away from the modern world, back to an era when Victoria was queen, and amid the carriage-filled streets of ever-foggy London, take a trip to the past with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Two, which brings together seven mysteries in the ongoing accounts of Holmes’ adventures that were rediscovered in our own age. The second omnibus also includes the bonus vignette The Case of Mrs. Hudson’s Insight, an exclusive never-before-published story released only in this omnibus. Travel along from the marshy banks of the rural Thames where Medieval knights once jousted...

Ask yourself, is it possible that facts themselves can somehow lie? Though he was found with a pistol lodged in his still-warm hand, and had apparently been alone at the time of his sudden death, a grieving daughter refuses to believe Scotland Yard has been correct in declaring her seemingly happy father’s demise to have been self-inflicted, and summons the world’s greatest detective to a sylvan community west of London in order to sift through clues which appear to support a verdict of suicide, albeit an act of personal destruction undertaken within troublingly unusual circumstances. ...

Step away from the modern world with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Five, by C. Thorne, a collection of four short stories, a novella, and a bonus vignette, which is found nowhere else but in this volume! Come with us in The Mystery of Wyvern Hall, as a fourteen-year-old girl with a taste for the legendary and fanciful vanishes without a trace from her home in a Medieval manor in the Kentish countryside…. Follow along in The Case of the Kaiser’s Assassin, as Holmes seeks to prevent war, when a diabolically bold assassin stalks the German Emperor on a trip to ...

Come along into the gas-lit days of long-ago, when Queen Victoria ruled an age named in her honour, and dare to peer into the dark heart of the underworld empire of Professor James Moriarty, a foe whom Sherlock Holmes begrudgingly dubbed “the Napoleon of Crime.” Set across the season of winter—matching the cold soul of Holmes’ greatest foe—witness a daring plot hatched in the brilliant but long-corrupted mind of Professor Moriarty grow to fruition amid the labour of many months in his unseen world of criminal enterprises. Set in London in 1886, this short story diverges from the ...

Come partake of newly-discovered cases Dr. Watson never dared release in his lifetime…. From the foggy streets of gas-lit London, to a certain Devonshire manor steeped in legend, the eighth omnibus in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes travels across Victorian England to places teeming with mystery and adventure. Inside Omnibus Eight are two previously-published novellas, two short stories, and an exclusive vignette found nowhere else. Included are: The Devil of Baskerville Hall, in which the newly-married Sir Henry Baskerville again consults with Sherlock Holmes, after events ...

Welcome fans of Sherlockiana, to The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Four! We hope you’ll enjoy this collection of three short stories, a novella, and a bonus vignette, which is found nowhere else but in this volume, as we return to a time where gas-lights dimly illuminate foggy cobblestone streets….where gangs of child criminals stalk the unwary from the Thames dock yards to the gates of Buckingham Palace….where ruthless blackmailers reside in the shadows, and bribe servants for the secrets of their genteel employers’ lives, all dwelling in a Victorian world, ...

What promises to be a tranquil evening in the early years of Holmes and Watson’s time at Baker Street is interrupted via a letter sent by a curator at the British Museum, who rather imperiously demands Holmes appear before him that night in the museum’s archives, and lend aid to what he describes as a threat to his honour, and perhaps his very life. Plunging out into the intemperate night, Watson joins Holmes as he enters into the vast after-hours reaches of the world’s largest museum, and there, in the darkness, meets a man whose secret past stands in contrast to the circumstances of...

A three AM knock at the door of 221B Baker Street, soon sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson out into the blanketing fog of a cold London night, where they are led by Inspector McPherson of Scotland Yard to an empty building, where four bodies, each the victim of a different manner of foul play, lie discarded like so much refuse. Amid the room the clues Holmes uncovers are strange, even contradictory, and seem to lead to more questions than answers, as he finds himself set about solving a mystery that taxes even the considerable powers of his brain, and leads to a conclusion as horrifying ...

A severely mutilated body left beside the river near a bucolic village becomes the starting point for one of Sherlock Holmes’ most bizarre and disturbing cases, as the world’s foremost consulting detective departs from London to begin an investigation, that soon delves into what truly lies below the surface of idyllic country life, and uncovers a violation of one of mankind’s deepest and oldest taboos, in The Eaters of Men, the forty-fifth tale in C. Thorne’s The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes!

From the foggy streets of gas-lit London, to country houses steeped in legend, the sixth omnibus in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes travels across the landscapes of Victorian England to places teeming with mystery and adventure. Herein a reader will meet cunning villains, and loyal friends, those who plot evil against their fellow man, and heroes who oppose them, and above all, wherever the path may take us, the game is always afoot… Inside Omnibus Six are two novellas, a short story, and an exclusive vignette, which is found nowhere else. Included are: The Yew Alley Ghost, a...

A forceful young typist arrives at 221B Baker Street on the first of April, 1886, with the alarming news that her employer, an eccentric old professor for whom she’d worked for just over two months, had suddenly vanished without a trace from his home, and to make matters worse, she has discovered the house occupied by three others whom she has never before met, who claim to have resided in the home for over a year, and to know of no professor ever being in residence there. What is the truth of the matter? Whatever has transpired in the seemingly quite ordinary suburban London home? Find ...

It is a warm summer Saturday at 221B Baker Street, and Dr. Watson has very little planned for himself after a long week tending to the expanding list of patients his medical practice has brought to him, when a messenger comes dashing to the door and upends his plans, setting him and the great Sherlock Holmes off to the headquarters of the British Zoologia Society, an august and exclusive club for explorers and collectors, whose stated intention is the expansion of human knowledge in the fields of natural sciences. According to the letter delivered expressly into Holmes’ hands, a matter of...

It is on a gloriously beautiful evening in high summertime when a client comes to Baker Street speaking of his impending marriage to a young woman whom he desperately loves, yet as it soon comes out, this same love has also driven the young man to do something horrifically wrong. The Case of the Bank Robber Bridegroom, must surely rank as one of the more controversial cases Dr. John H. Watson ever recorded concerning his friend, for it was never published in his lifetime, and comes available today, more than a century and a third after it occurred, as the twenty-seventh installment in C. ...

Come with us in this collection of four novellas and one bonus short story, found only in this omnibus, to a time of gas-lit drawing rooms, and horse-drawn carriages, where child pickpockets stalk foggy streets, and all-knowing servants fill every gentleman’s house, each dwelling in a Victorian world, where for Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street, the game is always afoot! Journey to a country estate, where a mysterious society of trance mediums labour together, one of whom, a beautiful young girl, claims Holmes has sent an innocent man to the gallows…. Trod down the perilous streets ...

Want to hear anecdotes about Sherlock Holmes and his cases—plus his domestic life—that you’ve never heard before, and won’t find anywhere else? Then this is the book for you! It’s been said that Mrs. Hudson plays a significant rôle in daily life at 221B Baker Street, yet what do we really know of her beyond her occasional mention as a peripheral character? In this book we hear Mrs. Hudson in her own unique and intelligent voice, as she tells of cases Dr. Watson never recorded, and details more than fifty recipes from the kitchens of her famous London address, dishes she often set...

An historic necklace tied to a tumultuous love affair between Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb back in the early days of the century, gifted by a starry-eyed suitor to a young American woman visiting London with her family, is audaciously stolen from a posh hôtel suite in broad daylight on a stormy afternoon, and provides the impetus for Sherlock Holmes to respond to the outcry of an angry father, who consults with him at 221B Baker Street, leading the great detective to investigate the circumstances of the necklace’s cruelly well-planned theft. Who has absconded with the glittering ...