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Author
Series
Irregular detective mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes's protégés Tim Badger and Benjamin Watson are catapulted into a tricky first case when a man is brutally murdered during a séance. London, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger is determined to follow in the footsteps of his great mentor, Sherlock Holmes, by opening his own consulting detective agency with his partner, Benjamin Watson. The intrepid duo are ready to make a name for themselves . . . if only they had clients!...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in the acclaimed modern retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic stories. But what if this wasn't the modern day? What if it was the late Victorian period? What if the world's most famous consulting detective and his best friend lived in a Baker Street of steam trains, hansom cabs, top hats and frock-coats? Welcome to Sherlock in 1895!--Container
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dogged by depression, doubt, and as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he'd nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer, known as the Monster of Munich, announces that he has relocated to Eisendorf, a tiny village near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. If Holmes is not what...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Bostrom recreates...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Skyhorse Publishing edition.
Language
English
Description
The Illustrated Guide to the Famous Cases, Infamous Adversaries, and Ingenious Methods of the Great Detective.
Over a century since his first appearance in print, Sherlock Holmes remains an iconic figure today. This unique companion is a collector's dream, allowing fans to delve into the criminal environment of foggy, gas-lit Victorian London-the world of the all-time greatest detective. The book brings to life the elements of Holmes's...
Over a century since his first appearance in print, Sherlock Holmes remains an iconic figure today. This unique companion is a collector's dream, allowing fans to delve into the criminal environment of foggy, gas-lit Victorian London-the world of the all-time greatest detective. The book brings to life the elements of Holmes's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The first Sherlock Holmes letter barrister Reggie Heath answered cost him most of his personal fortune, all of his Baker Street chambers clients, and quite possibly Laura Rankin, the love of his life. But Reggie intends to earn all of it—the money, the career, and the love—back again. His latest client is the driver of one of London's famous black cabs, accused of murdering two American tourists. But while Reggie is working on that case, the letters...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This book offers a detailed itinerary for actually 'walking' Sherlock Holmes. Beginning, of course, at Baker Street a series of walks takes in the well-known, as well as some of the more obscure, locations of London as traveled by Holmes and Watson and a gallery of unforgettable characters in the stories. Details of each location and the story in which it features are given along with other items of interest - associated literary and historical information,...
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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
1895: London's scared. A killer haunts the city's streets. The poor are hungry; crime bosses are taking control; the police force stretched to breaking point. While the rich turn to Sherlock Holmes, the celebrated private detective rarely visits the densely populated streets of South London, where the crimes are sleazier and the people are poorer. In a dark corner of Southwark, victims turn to a man who despises Holmes, his wealthy clientele and his...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The question on everyone's lips is finally answered as the hugely popular Sherlock returns in three brand new action-packed adventures. With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again the game is on for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sherlock's landlady and Dr. Watson's wife help a blackmailed woman only to find themselves in a murder case in this mystery series debut.
The women in Sherlock Holmes's life have grown tired of toiling in his shadow. Matters come to a head when the Great Man declines to help a desperate young bride, prompting Mrs. Hudson (Holmes's housekeeper) and Mary Watson (wife to the good Doctor) to set up a sleuthing shop of their own, operating out of the...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Get ready for a mystery adventure like no other when Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. The world's two greatest masters in the art of detection, Sherlock Holmes and SIgmund Freud, join forces for the first time with the persistence of Dr. Watson, which leads to a thrilling investigation in a kidnapping case.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Drugged, manacled, condemned to a dank cell in the depths of London's infamous Newgate prison, the world's greatest literary detective awaits execution by a vengeful crew of formidable enemies. Escape is impossible; death, a certainty. But not for Sherlock Holmes, who, in a stunning display of intellect and derring-do, will elude his hangman's noose and live to fiddle, spy, and ratiocinate another day. Against tremendous odds Holmes will continue...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock's phenomenal mental acuity diminishing and the emotional life he had always resisted pushing its way to the surface, the worlds greatest detective is forced to confront the most baffling mystery of his career, that of the meaning and significance of his own inner life.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window....
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