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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Eleven new investigations. Eleven moments where certainty fails. A Deptford film crew records something they were never meant to see. A well-dressed widow insists her late husband's visitor was not the man he claimed to be. A circus aerialist vanishes mid-performance, leaving only a rope and a mystery. A Kent hop farmer asks Holmes to investigate his estate manager — and Holmes finds himself, for once, outplayed. From a railway concourse in the rain to the backstreets of Pimlico, from the docks at Harwich to a river foreshore at Rotherhithe, Dr. Watson chronicles cases in which Holmes is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Are you ready for a journey where reality intertwines with magic, danger meets wit, and friendship defies darkness? 1. **The Witch Hunter**: Uncover the perilous quest of Sherlock Holmes as he battles against a relentless witch hunter determined to destroy an innocent woman. With wit, courage, and a touch of magic, can our detective save her before it's too late? 2. ** The Enchanted Detective **: Join Watson and Holmes in their daring escapades across London’s foggy streets where a race against time unfolds as they chase after the shadowy figure behind enchanted enigmas that threaten to ...

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 Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the 19th century and into the early 20th - including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness", the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn manhunt in the Outback. This forgotten treasure sets the tone for the whole anthology....

Before modern crime thrillers and historical adventures captivated millions of readers, J. S. Fletcher was crafting tales of intrigue, danger, deception, and suspense that kept readers turning pages late into the night. Dark and Dangerous Mysteries brings together two of Fletcher's most compelling novels, revealing the remarkable range of one of Britain's most prolific and imaginative writers. In Mistress Spitfire, Fletcher transports readers to the turbulent days of seventeenth-century England. Against a backdrop of political unrest, secret loyalties, and personal vendettas, a spirited and...

With an intellect as sharp as his right cross, Honest John Churchfield is the second-best detective in 1890s London. Unfortunately, Sherlock Holmes casts an enormous shadow. A collection of the first seven Honest John short stories, "Honest John Churchfield" places a comedic twist on classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries, chronicling Churchfield's adventures as he unravels a baffling art heist, exposes a fraudulent fortuneteller, matches wits with a rogue hypnotist, and solves a pair of perplexing murders. Two additional stories, "Honest John Gets His Man" and "Honest John Keeps a Date," ...

During the last part of the nineteenth century, the detective story took off as a popular genre as literary magazines vied with each other to draw in readers with gripping page-turners by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Guy Boothby and Wilkie Collins. This collection brings together some of the great detectives of the Victorian era, from the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes, to the mild mannered Father Brown, to the feisty J. G. Reeder.