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1888 was a busy year for Holmes and Watson. If Dr. Watson is to be believed, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, and The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor all took place in this year (I would also argue that The Valley of Fear is set in the same year — ed.). As if that weren’t enough, 1888 is remembered (albeit infamously) as the year that Jack the Ripper unleashed an autumn of terror on the citizens of London. While there are no Holmes vs. the Ripper stories in this volume, the authors of the later stories have all alluded to the atmosphere of terror permeating Holmes’s London at that time.

Nach einem Schwächeanfall braucht Sherlock Holmes dringend Urlaub. Etwas widerwillig folgt er der Einladung eines Freundes von Dr. Watson aufs Land. Doch zwei Einbrüche und ein Mord sorgen für Unruhe im verschlafenen Dörfchen Reigate. Einziger Hinweis auf den Täter ist ein abgerissener Zettel. Natürlich kann Holmes etwas daraus deduzieren.

As a scientist, Sherlock Holmes would have certainly been familiar with the famous dictum attributed to Aristotle: Nature abhors a vacuum. In that same vein, fans of the Great Detective must look at 1885 and 1886 and see a somewhat similar void.

Beyond Baker Street, adventure awaits... Seeking respite and intellectual stimulation after a taxing period in London, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on an ambitious tour of Europe. But their plans for academic study are quickly derailed as they encounter baffling mysteries in the Continent's great capitals. From a gruesome danse macabre orchestrated with Viennese ingenuity, to a cryptic cipher left by a doomed Berlin historian, and the baffling theft of an ancient Roman relic guarded by a secret lineage – Holmes must apply his singular methods in unfamiliar territory. Follow the ...

Written as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of the Great Detective, the stories here are fair-play mysteries with no ghosts, goblins, aliens, or otherwise outrageous characters that cannot be explained with reason and deduction. Enjoy these tales collected in one volume for the first time as award-winning writer I.A. Watson regales you with the adventures of the greatest consulting detective of all time.

The scream echoed down the hallway, shaking me from my slumber and into the dim vision of the electric lights. Someone was banging on the door, and Watson scrambled to open it. I was bleary-eyed, still feeling a bit desensitized when Evelyn Reed burst in to the door. Her hands were covered with odious red, and tears streaked across her reddened face.