Victorian Detectives Collection

Enjoy three stories of romance, mystery, and the magic of Christmas! THE OXFORD STREET COFFEE HOUSE DETECTIVES Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they must assume their other identities--for they moonlight as apprentice detectives under the employ of Mycroft Holmes. THE ROOKS OF MISSELTHWAITE - PART 1: IN THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN Lilias Lennox and her sister Evelia have lost everything. Their parents are dead, their brother is serving in India, and now their sole ...

Step into the fog-draped streets of Victorian London and join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in this compelling collection of ten mystery stories filled with hidden motives, baffling clues, and dangerous secrets. From whispered scandals in drawing rooms to strange disappearances, coded messages, stolen documents, and murders cloaked in respectability, each case draws Holmes deeper into the shadowy corners of London society. With razor-sharp logic, keen observation, and Watson at his side, Holmes must untangle mysteries that test both intellect and nerve. Perfect for readers who love ...

Every case contains a silence. Not a gap. A choice. In this haunting collection of eleven new Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective encounters mysteries in which the decisive act is not what was said, done, or taken — but what was deliberately left unsaid. A schoolmaster's death exposes a cruelty an entire village learned not to name. A cellar burial is guarded by a street for forty years. A stolen manuscript leads Holmes to a truth he discovers — and refuses to repeat. Holmes reads the silences as precisely as he reads the evidence. Watson begins to notice that he has been doing...

THE FIRST 5 EPISODES OF THE EXCITING, TIME-TRAVELING, STEAMPUNK MYSTERY SERIES! Episode 1: The "Ghost" Division Agent Artful Doyle, the Bureau's expert on Reports and Regulations, has been unexpectedly given an assignment after three years doing desk work. She's been sent to "bring to heel" their foremost Ripperologist, Agent Darrish Fox, who shows signs of going rogue. But when she finally arrives in Victorian London and discovers what Agent Fox has been investigating, she realizes that situations in the field are rarely as cut-and-dried as they are on paper. The Bureau has always used ...

SHERLOCK HOLMES NEVER DIES. Six new stories of the world's greatest detective. Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters six new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with long-suffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again. Blood coats the street of Victorian England, but no evidence is clear, and no suspect cleared of guilt. As to be expected, evil genius-the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty soon reappears. The great detective must thwart his diabolical machinations, but even ...

What if Sherlock Holmes solved the case perfectly — and it changed nothing? In this dark and elegant collection of eleven new Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective confronts mysteries in which the truth arrives too late, justice has no office to receive it, and the damage has already been done. A demolished school leaves three young men unable to prove the education that should have saved them. A lifeboat captain is disgraced by a lie that can be exposed but not undone. A celebrated surgeon's private notebooks reveal the cost of genius. A drowned village, a burned library, a ruined...

Holmes names the criminal. The system processes the next victim. In this darkly urgent collection of eleven new Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective solves each case with precision — and begins to understand that precision may not be the right tool. Each crime has a human face: a woman deceived by a matrimonial agency, a boy running errands he doesn't understand, a household in the grip of perfect, invisible control. Behind each of them is an architecture built to process victims at one remove from those who profit. Holmes dismantles the individual case. The architecture continues...

Eleven new investigations. Eleven moral reckonings. A cartographer dies at his desk, pen in hand, drawing a map of no recognisable place. A celebrated tenor contrives to die on stage at the Royal Opera House. Mysterious photographs appear overnight in a locked darkroom. Chalk marks on Whitechapel walls conceal a message no one was meant to read. A mathematician vanishes from his rooms at Cambridge, leaving his shoes, his coat, and an unfinished proof. From the gaslit streets of London to the flat silence of the Fens, from a cathedral tower at midnight to the tunnels beneath Kennington, Dr. ...

The first three volumes of The Sherlock Holmes Casebooks in one edition. Thirty-three investigations from the journals of Dr. John H. Watson: cases of conscience, darker reach, and dangerous certainty, in which Holmes finds the truth and Watson records what the truth costs. Includes: Book I: The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes Eleven new investigations. Eleven moral reckonings. From a cartographer's impossible map to a mathematician's unfinished proof, these are cases that test not merely Holmes's intellect but his conscience. Book II: The Darker Reaches of Sherlock Holmes Justice is late, ...

Sherlock Holmes is rarely wrong. In these eleven new cases, rarely is not never. A Deptford film crew records something it was never meant to see. A circus aerialist vanishes in the middle of her act, leaving only a rope. A Kent hop farmer asks Holmes to investigate his estate manager — and Holmes discovers that he has been expertly misled. From a rain-soaked railway concourse to the docks at Harwich and the foreshore at Rotherhithe, Dr. Watson records mysteries in which the evidence is visible but certainty is dangerous. Holmes can expose another person's deception. Recognising his own ...

Holmes solves the case. The damage was already done. A factory girl is dying of a bone disease every doctor refuses to name — because naming it means naming the company. A Home Office clerk hangs himself after burning the papers that matter most. On a frozen Yorkshire corpse road, a dead man has been arranged to point the investigation toward the wrong parish. In eleven new cases, Holmes investigates crimes protected by the machinery of Victorian life: the company doctor who signs what he is told, the policeman who arrests whom he is paid to, and the law that makes cruelty look ...

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...

Eleven new investigations. Eleven constructed lies. A man returns from Australia claiming to be the long-dead son of a wealthy family. Watson believes him. Holmes does not. A grieving widow is shown photographs of her husband’s ghost — and Holmes reads the image as evidence rather than consolation. A retired officer is framed as the architect of a racing telegraph fraud he never devised. A property agent in Bermondsey hires a former trapeze artist to drive an entire street out of their homes by fear alone. From a forged breviary in Clerkenwell to a mineral survey gone wrong in the ...

A Mother’s Day collection with a darker edge—where love, sacrifice, and secrecy collide. In these three gripping Sherlock Holmes mysteries, mothers stand at the very heart of the intrigue. From fierce protectors to hidden masterminds, their roles are as powerful as they are unexpected. Holmes must unravel motives rooted not in greed—but in devotion, desperation, and duty. A perfect gift for readers who enjoy classic detective fiction with emotional depth and suspense. The Kidnapping of Baby Carfax Reader: Do you remember Lady Frances Carfax from my account of her two years ago? Do you...

You enjoy historical mysteries? You love Sherlock Holmes? This is for you. Four new novels in one collection set. All are part of the best-selling series of sixty New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Craig Stephen Copland. In this set you can read The Stock Market Murders in which Holmes and Watson solve the mysterious murders of several young men who worked in The City; The Glorious Yacht, when on the morning after the Titanic disaster, Holmes recalls a much earlier sea voyage when they were accompanied by a crew of famous pirates; The Most grave Ritual, where a young man is accused of murder ...

The crime is buried. The city is built on top of it. Holmes works downward. A ledger found in a condemned Shoreditch tenement — sealed behind a bricked wall with the body of the man who compiled it. A baby farmer's ledger records twenty-seven names over thirteen years — each in a neat hand, each death certified by the same doctor. An engineer who certified the Tay Bridge specifications as sound, traced to Canada three years after the disaster. Dr. Watson chronicles eleven investigations into what Victorian London has buried — the culverted river, the sealed ward, the demolished ...

Before Moriarty had heirs, before Bond had villains, there was Dr. Fu-Manchu—the original criminal mastermind, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man," and the most influential, and most troubling, villain in the history of popular fiction. First published between 1913 and 1917, Sax Rohmer's first three Fu-Manchu novels—The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, and The Hand of Fu-Manchu—invented a template the twentieth century never stopped copying: the global criminal genius commanding a secret society, and the two relentless hunters—the brilliant Nayland Smith and...

The newly formed Detective Department at Scotland Yard is desperate for success, and when their best detective, Inspector Richard Rayner is given the task of tracking down the killer of two defenceless elderly women in Whitechapel, a difficult and complex investigation begins. The problem Rayner faces is that the crimes were committed fifteen years earlier. With his most reliable Sergeant, Henry Bustle confined to his bed following a severe beating by street vagabonds, and a young constable is kidnapped by men determined to kill him, Rayner has to call up all his reserves and experience to ...

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 ...

Before Sexton Blake became Britain's most famous detective, he was many detectives. Early Blake: The Pretenders returns to the formative years of the great detective's career, presenting a remarkable collection of rare stories from 1893–1905 that reveal how the character evolved through the hands of multiple pioneering writers. Long before the standardized Blake of later decades, these adventures show a hero who could be detective, adventurer, spy, scientist, actor, and globe-trotter—sometimes all within the same story. From inheritance conspiracies and criminal secret societies to ...