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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

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Moriarty

Anthony Horowitz · 310 pages

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall that claimed the lives of Sherlock Holmes and criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, must track down a sinister figure who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.

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A Study in Emerald

Neil Gaiman · 85 pages

"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo,

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Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson

Lyndsay Faye · 330 pages

In *Dust and Shadow*, Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper with impeccably accurate historical detail, rooting the Whitechapel investigation in the fledgling days of tabloid journalism and clinical psychology. This astonishing debut explores the terrifying prospect of hunting down one of the world's first serial killers without the advantage of modern forensics or profiling. Sherlock's de

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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr · 316 pages

From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those wh

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

Loren D. Estleman · 238 pages

Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectable London doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew — the blackest mystery of his career! Although R

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The Sherlockian

Graham Moore · 350 pages

When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.

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A Study in Brimstone

G.S. Denning · 375 pages

"Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot. A font of arcane power, certainly. But he's brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn't deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalalwart companion. Thankfully, Dr. Watson is always there to aid him through the treacherous shoals of Victorian propr

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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

Peter Ackroyd · 261 pages

Published in England as Dan Leno and the Limehouse golem

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Murder on Cold Street

Sherry Thomas · 344 pages

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The Man from Hell

Barrie Roberts · 208 pages

The brutal murder of the reclusive Lord Blackwater propels Holmes and Watson into another intriguing case that points to the shadowy figure known only as “The Man form the Gates of Hell”. A tangled web of deceit, violence and tragedy unravels as Holmes’ deductions bring him closer to those behind the plot–a criminal organisation with a far-reaching and perilous influence...

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Art in the Blood

Bonnie MacBird · 313 pages

1888. After a disasterous Ripper investigation, Holmes sinks into a deep depression. Watson can do nothing to help his friend, but an encoded letter from the French singer, Emmeline La Victoire, rekindles the detective's interest. The singer's illegitimate son, Emil, who is 10, has disappeared, and may have been kidnapped. As Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, they discover that Emil's fa

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Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse

Martin Davies · 320 pages

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The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, MD

Nicholas Meyer · 224 pages

"Acquired" from a widow whose husband was descended from the distaff side of Holmes's family, this mystery finds Holmes solving a double murder in London's theater district.

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A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham · 368 pages

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for he

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The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

Nancy Springer · 192 pages

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Secret Letters

Leah Scheier · 327 pages

Sixteen-year-old Dora travels to London to meet Sherlock Holmes, who might be her biological father, and ask his help for her cousin who is being blackmailed over some stolen letters, but although Holmes dies before she arrives, a handsome young detective comes to Dora's aid.

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Fingersmith

Sarah Waters · 560 pages

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrive

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The Angel of the Crows

Katherine Addison · 448 pages

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