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Amidst the cool of autumn a young woman comes to Baker Street telling of the sudden death of her father out in the great Gray Forest in the west of the country, and of the suspicious circumstances which had marked his last days…events she claims are now mirrored by similar happenings in her own life. Knowing the forest harbours legends concerning a coven of witches which has remained hidden there since the most primeval of times, the young client raises the possibility of their involvement in her father’s strange passing. And so to the largest and most mysterious forest in the realm ...

Collected together for the first time are these four tales from The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, each a particular favourite of both the author, and his readers. Included are: The Case of the Kaiser’s Assassin, in which Holmes is summoned to prevent the murder of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during his visit to England… The Demon of the Mountain, which tells of a British officer, returned from hellish captivity at the hands of a tribe in Afghanistan, now seemingly pursued by the very cultists he has escaped…. The Yew Alley Ghost, details the disappearance of the grandson of a ...

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 ...

In The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, previously unknown cases from the great consulting detective's career are rediscovered, each faithfully recorded and narrated by Holmes' friend and colleague, Dr. John H. Watson. We hope you'll come along on these newly released accounts detailing adventures amid amazing, ever-remarkable, and occasionally sordid mysteries that arise on the cobbled streets of London, the deceptively placid English countryside, and in genteel estates behind whose imposing facades dark secrets sometimes lie. Striving for an authentically classic tone to these ...

On a fittingly cold night in the last year of the 19th century, Holmes’ evening is shattered by the intrusion of a Russian diplomat and his entourage, who come bursting into 221B Baker Street, and he soon finds himself pursuing a case of a young lady’s abduction, a crime which must be kept quiet lest its ramifications threaten to take two of the major powers of Europe to the brink of a potentially volatile international crisis. Told not through the pen of Doctor Watson, but from within Holmes’ own mind as the time-sensitive investigation unfolds, The Case of the Russian Ambassador’s...

“It is the mystery not the object,” Holmes explains to Watson on the morning he is summoned to find the whereabouts of a missing wedding cake to be served at the reception of one of the most celebrated society events of the season. Heading out at once through the Surrey countryside to the estate of a nearly extinct noble family, Holmes soon finds that sinister undercurrents belie the idyllic setting of what the bride’s mother, the dowager Lady Prudence describes as the happiest day of her daughter’s life.

Leave behind the hectic pressures of the present-day and return for a little while to the era of Queen Victoria's storied reign, as on Boxing Day 1894, one of the most celebrated men in all London, the famed writer Oscar Wilde, pays a call at 221B Baker Street, bringing distressing news of a theft which stands to see the manuscript for a novel he dubs nothing less than his magum opus, released before the world under the name of a dastardly plagiarist. Wilde's plea for aid soon has Sherlock Holmes on the trail of this missing treasure of high literary art, setting himself up against a ...

In this fourth volume of The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes and Watson are visited at Baker Street by an academic who claims his school's most treasured secret possession, no less than the mummified head of the Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell, has been stolen from his office. As Holmes' investigation takes him from the streets of London, to the rolling downs of Suffolk, to the thriving holiday town of Brighton read along as the world's greatest consulting detective attempts to pierce the mystery of how, when, and by whom England's most long-sought human artifact...

The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Five Favourite Cases, is a sampler from the series that includes five mysteries selected from the three-dozen stories in the canon, with all-new illustrations. This is a way for fans old and new to read some of the most popular stories from author C. Thorne’s The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Included in this collection are: The Case of Cromwell’s Cranium The Case of Moriarty’s Betrayer The Adventure of the Séance Society The Case of the Snowdonia Werewolf The Mystery of Wyvern Hall Journey back to a time in which dangers ...

Dr. Watson would call it Sherlock Holmes’ darkest and most haunting case...the evening Baker Street was visited by a young woman who came alone, pleading for aid in saving her father, an innocent man, she claims, from the gallows in a mere seven days, and in so doing, taking the great detective and his faithful chronicler down a twisted pathway to truth. From a gloom-filled murder scene in the heart of the city, to the dismal corridors of Reading Gaol, and into the complex and often-cold mind of Sherlock Holmes himself, here tragedy and hope collide in the swirling London fog of long ago.

What begins with a pleasant Saturday evening gathering at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Watson, where Sherlock Holmes relates a solo case undertaken in a graveyard in the English Midlands, gives way on Monday to an ardent plea for Holmes’ help in returning a young kidnapping victim to her terrified parents. The only clue at the investigation’s start is a harsh ransom note in which the brutal abductors vow to send back one of the girl’s fingers should outsiders be brought into the case. Making haste to the home of a learned astronomer and his wife in a rural village east of London, Holmes ...

On a quiet morning in 1882, early on in Sherlock Holmes’ and Dr. John Watson’s long and eventful friendship, what began as an ordinary day in the thriving heart of London is changed by the arrival of one of Holmes’ legion of street urchins, young Charlie Toppet, among the most colourful of the “Baker Street Irregulars,” who act as the great detective’s eyes and ears on the streets of the city. Soon caught up in the boy’s account of a mysterious figure living alone in a shunned house near the river, a wary and isolated stranger who with an almost ritualistic dedication throws a...

Confronted with a development he’d long dreamt of, a weak link in the iron-hard chain of Professor Moriarty’s criminal empire, Sherlock Holmes undertakes a series of quests which arise from clues left in a number of locations around London, each message leading onto the next, and in order to keep a prearranged meeting with the mysterious informant who has sent the challenge, the great detective must unravel a complex series of psychological puzzles before he can keep his rendezvous with the unnamed defector. It’s all in The Case of Moriarty’s Betrayer, the twelfth volume in The ...

While in Paris, where he solves a national crisis on behalf of a grateful French government, Sherlock Holmes is approached by a young nun, who brings to his attention the strange mystery surrounding the theft of a precious relic from the convent chapel that very morning. Impressed by the nun’s intelligence and the considerable powers of deduction she demonstrates before him, Holmes agrees to investigate the events at the convent where she resides in the Norman countryside, only to learn that the little religious community is at the heart of larger events than any of the sisters there have...

Hello! I'm C-Thorne and welcome to my podcast, obviously named “Thorne in Your Side”! HOLLA!!!! *Clears throat* Anyway, I'll be using a light-hearted approach to discussing information and opinions related to various topics (from video games to social norms). If you're open-minded and love juicey humor, then prepare to be en-ta-tained and informed! Episodes will uploaded on Thursdays around 5pm EST! http://www.youtube.com/@c-thorne https://www.facebook.com/thorneinyoside https://twitter.com/ThorneinyoSide *Microphone image was designed by vectorstock (Image #1035145 at VectorStock.com)

One year after the puzzling case that would go on to be known as The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street again finds himself confronted by a mystery surrounded by claims of preternatural events, when a young lady becomes caught in a living nightmare which began after her visit to a museum exposed her to the presence of a black marble sculpture of a Renaissance angel, tainted by a long and sinister history. Will this episode of unnatural torment in the heart of London prove the one instance out of an entire career in which cold logic may not triumph, and the diabolical...

C. Thorne the writer of more than one-thousand short stories, along with numerous works of poetry in all genres, is also the author of textbooks, novellas, screenplays, and magazine, newspaper, and online non-fiction articles. He lives in the United States.