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A visitor to Baker Street comes amid the rains of March in 1889, speaking of the shadowy world of séances and mediumship, subjects about which the ever-rational Holmes has little patience, nor is he any more approving when an accusation is made concerning his role in a past case that saw a convicted murderer hanged, yet when events unfold to draw Holmes to a manor in Wiltshire where the British Séance Society makes its headquarters, he soon finds himself caught up in a case that appears to Watson to have the involvement of the paranormal as its most likely explanation. It’s all inside ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine the reaction at 221B Baker Street to a grieving widow’s claim that her late husband has fallen victim to murder, not merely once, but a second time, all within the same week! Thus begins this far-reaching novella, the forty-second title within The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Venture back to 1880s England, as the world’s foremost detective and his faithful chronicler, seek answers to one of the more confusing cases ever brought to their door. What is the truth in the seeming impossibility of a man who can, not once, but twice be struck down by the cruel arm of death...

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...

An abrupt summons to a secret meeting in the highest chambers of White Hall, the seat of the innermost workings of British government, soon informs Sherlock Holmes that a diabolically bold assassin stalks the visiting German Kaiser, grandson of Queen Victoria, and all signs are that this fearless hunter of men plans to launch his strike that very night at a reception following an opera. Thus brought into the matter with only hours to prepare and less time to act, Holmes must make use of his every talent to foil someone who promises to be among the more cunning foes he has faced in his ...

Who can resist the appeal of a beautiful woman pleading for assistance after an object she held as among her most precious possessions is mysteriously stolen? And what if that woman happens to be the most celebrated actress in Victorian London? Still recovering from a heartbreaking loss that nearly destroyed him, Dr. Watson is called to return to Baker Street as he ventures beside Holmes into a vast West End theater filled with odd characters and strange clues, all in pursuit of a truth that might be less welcomed by the esteemed client than she may care to face. Looming over all are hints ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

A fourteen-year-old girl with a taste for the legendary and fanciful vanishes without a trace, seemingly into thin air, from her home in a Medieval manor in the Kentish countryside, leaving her parents overcome with concern, amid a household which claims to know nothing of the matter. After two days of frantic searching, including the dragging of nearby waters, and the setting of a famed bloodhound to find the girl’s trail have produced no results whatsoever, the estate’s owner sends an urgent telegram to London, calling on the aid of the most famous detective of his or any era, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Into the parlour of Baker Street one morning in 1883 comes the kind-hearted landlady of a west-London boarding house, bringing Sherlock Holmes a singular tale of one of her residents, whose puzzling disappearance is made all the more incredible by the fact this man, whom all who knew him took for slightly touched in the head, had made the claim that he was in fact from nearly a century in the future. What has become of this odd individual, and what is to be made of his apparently sincere claim that he is a time traveler? Take a journey to 221B Baker Street, and learn the truth in The Man ...

“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.

The peace of 221B Baker Street is abruptly shattered when a fleeing woman arrives hammering at the front door, having run miles to reach the famed address. It soon becomes clear from her narrative that this terrified soul is fleeing her husband, and pleads sanctuary and aid, while telling a story as horrific as it is shocking, for this runaway wife claims that she has wed a heartless Bluebeard, a man who has marriedand murdered—four women before her, and now this charming monster intends that she, the fifth bride, is to be his latest victim. Indeed, she reveals the man has already made ...

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 ...

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)