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IN OCTOBER 1805, NAPOLEON'S FLEET WAS DEFEATED IN THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. NOW HIS GHOST HAS RETURNED TO ENGLAND FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE, INTENT ON WREAKING REVENGE ON THE DESCENDANTS OF ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON AND ON ALL OF ENGLAND. The mother of the great-great-grandchildren of Admiral Nelson contacts Sherlock Holmes and asks him to come to her home, Victory Manor, in Gravesend to protect the Nelson Collection. The invaluable collection of artifacts is to be displayed during the one-hundredth anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Trafalgar. First, Dr. Watson comes to the manor ...

At ten o’clock on Sunday morning, the twenty-second of October, 1882, in an abandoned house in the West Bottom of Kansas City, just a stone’s throw from the stockyards, a fellow named Jasper Harrison did not wake up. His inability to do was the result of his having had his throat cut sometime during the previous night. At the same time, in the same location, in the very same house, another fellow, by the name of Eddie Kepler did wake up. Now, it is trying enough to wake up on a Sunday morning after getting drunk on Saturday night in a saloon on the other side of the state line. However,...

This case all began one quiet evening—very quiet; bordering on boring—while we were sitting by the hearth in our rooms in Kansas City. A few weeks later, a murder, perhaps the most gruesome I had ever witnessed in all my born days, took place in Denver, immediately above our heads. By the time it all ended, justice, of the frontier variety, not the courtroom, had been meted out. If you want to know how it all happened, you’ll have to read this story. Jim Watson, M.D. Denver, 1883 Reverend Ezekiel Black receive a call to provide pulpit supply for a church in Denver. Soon after his ...

THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLOTTE EUROPA GOLDERTON. SHERLOCK HOLMES ENCOUNTERS A FEMME FATALE. THE ONLY WAY TO STOP HER IS TO MARRY HER. In the original Sherlock Holmes story about Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London,” was shot and sent to his just reward. But now another diabolical scheme of blackmail has emerged centered in the telegraph offices of the Royal Mail. It is linked to an archeological expedition whose director disappeared one night. Someone is prepared to do murder to protect their ill-gotten gain and possibly steal a priceless treasure. Holmes is hired by not ...

A MAD WOMAN IS MURDERING LONDON BACHELORS BY DRIVING A RAILWAY SPIKE THROUGH THEIR HEADS Scotland Yard demands that Sherlock Holmes help them find and stop a crazed murderess who is re-enacting the biblical murders by Jael. Holmes agrees and finds that revenge is being taken for deeds treachery and betrayal that took place ten years ago in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade must move quickly before more men and women lose their lives. The story is a tribute to the original Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of Black Peter. Buy it now and enjoy.

Reader: Do you remember Lady Frances Carfax from my account of her two years ago? Do you recall how she was very nearly murdered by being buried alive? I thought you might. She’s back. She returned to 221B Baker Street a few weeks back asking for help from Sherlock Holmes. She acknowledged that years earlier she gave birth to a love child. That child has now been kidnapped and a ransom demand has been received. If not paid, the child, who is now a young woman, will suffer the same fate and Lady Carfax almost did two years ago. She will be buried alive. Holmes and I set off to Europe to ...

The Spy Gate Liars “Your friend, Monsieur Sherlock Holmes is near death. Come at once.” Having received this telegram, Watson rushes to eastern France, where Holmes is investigating the serial murders of former German army officers. The events that led to this murder mystery began in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. But the evil that was done back then has continued until the present day … and vengeance will be had. All the victims were killed in the same way, a dagger through the eye socket. Another likely victim has moved to England, so we rush to find him before the assassin does. ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVILISH FOOTNOTE. The wealthy owner/publisher of England's most prestigious literary journal holds a soirée for the writers, critics and intelligentsia of London (modelled on the Bloomsbury Group) and is poisoned by one of the departing guests. Her brilliant secretary/editor almost dies too. Scotland Yard calls for Sherlock Holmes and he soon discovers that almost everyone in the literary world wanted the woman dead. Holmes starts to investigate, but matters become complicated when Dr. Watson, now a widower, becomes romantically attracted to the editor. Then more of ...

The Grecian, Earned Wilson Kemp and Harold Latimer, the villains from the story of The Greek Interpreter, ran off to Budapest, Where they were stabbed multiple times … and died. The killer ran away … a long way away. Holmes and Watson go to Budapest. They meet with one of Holmes’s former assistants … one who is smart, but despised. The trail then takes then to Athens, Where the first Olympic Games in modern times will soon take place. Something is not right. A massive fraud? Cheating to win gold for national pride? Only one thing is for certain … timeo danaos et dona ferentes. ...

The Stock Market Murders. A clever Cambridge graduate who works in The City goes missing. Two of his classmates are found murdered. Holmes investigates and finds that all of them were caught up in the greatest fraud ever visited upon the citizens of England. The tentacles of the financial empire behind it reach to the far corners of the globe. In London, they are wrapped around the construction of the new Bakerloo Underground line. Millions of pounds are about to vanish. The characters and actions in the story are borrowed from the historical events surrounding the life of James Whittaker ...

The Naval Knaves. On September 15, 1894, an anarchist attempted to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. All he succeeded in blowing up was himself. But he did not act alone. Sherlock Holmes discovers that he was part of an intricate web of spies, foreign naval officers, and a drop-dead-gorgeous, not-English princess. Once again, suspicion lands on poor Percy Phelps. Now he’s in a senior position in the Admiralty. Holmes has to rescue Percy, But he has a much bigger worry. A massive, terrorist explosion is planned. It will take many lives. But where? And when? This New Sherlock Holmes Mystery ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE TREACHEROUS TRUST. A beautiful, brilliant young woman attracts the attention of a wealthy, older gentleman. He insist that she join the board of directors of a popular charity, run by his son. A meeting of the directors is held at the family estate. She attends and quarrels with the son. An hour later, she falls off the roof terrace. Nobody can believe that her death is anything but a tragic accident. Nobody, that is, except her sister, Miss Violet Westbury. A year earlier, Violet's fiancé, Cadogan West, was murdered and his body dumped on top of a railway carriage. ...

The Adventure of the Beryl Anarchists. Did the sons betray their father? Did they steal the confidential records of the clients of his bank? Did they give those records to a gang of miscreants who will use them for blackmail? The banker begs Holmes to investigate. Was it really his sons? Or maybe his daughter? Or maybe her boyfriend? Or maybe the voluptuous maid? The sons and the Anarchists have something in common. They are all besotted with the latest craze — riding motorcycles. Holmes and I make inquiries. And things get worse. A young girl is murdered. We give chase to the villains ...