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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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
The House of Silk
Anthony Horowitz · 312 pages
For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel. Once again, THE GAME’S AFOOT… London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have fo
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Peter Tremayne, Tim Lebbon, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McInty · 402 pages
A Sherlockiana primer / Christopher Roden -- [The doctor's case / Stephen King][1] -- The horror of the many faces / Tim Lebbon -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- The adventure of the other detective / Bradley H. Sinor -- A scandal in Montreal / Edward D. Hoch -- The adventure of the field theorems / Vonda N. McIntyre -- The adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer -
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ronald Knox, Julian Symons, F.P. Cillie, D.O. Smith, Arthur Whitaker, Vincent Starrett, Stuart Palmer, S.C. Roberts, W.R. Duncan Macmillan, Adrian Conan Doyle · 272 pages
The Mangle Street Murders
M.R.C. Kasasian · 352 pages
1882. London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant, wealthiest yet most poverty-stricken. No sooner does March Middleton arrive to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, than a case presents itself: a young woman has been brutally murdered, and her husband is the only suspect. The victim's mother is convinced of her son-in-law's innocence, and March is so touched by her pleas she offers to cover Sidn
Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse
Martin Davies · 320 pages
Murder on Cold Street
Sherry Thomas · 344 pages
Except the Dying
Maureen Jennings · 328 pages
The Laws of Murder
Charles Finch · 366 pages
"It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still play t
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Gyles Brandreth · 416 pages
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
Nancy Springer · 192 pages
The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
Leah Moore, John Reppion
The Last Moriarty
Charles Veley · 287 pages
A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 301 pages
The Dark Water: The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
David Pirie · 337 pages
"In a literary tour de force worthy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, author David Pirie brings his rich familiarity with both the Doyle biography and the Sherlock Holmes canon to a mystifying Victorian tale of vengeance and villainy. The howling man on the heath, a gothic asylum, the walking dead, the legendary witch of Dunwich-perils lurk in every turn of the page throughout this ingenious past
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Lyndsay Faye · 360 pages
Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own wo
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King · 368 pages
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
Loren D. Estleman · 224 pages
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
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.
The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D.
Nicholas Meyer · 224 pages
Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. John Watson, the biographer of Sherlock Holmes, reveals for the first time a hitherto unknown episode in the life of the Great Detective. The year is 1891, Paris is the capital of the western world, and its opera house is full of surprises. First and by no means the least is the sudden reappearance of the
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Ted Riccardi · 303 pages
Preface by Dr. John Watson -- The case of the viceroy's assistant -- The case of Hodgson's ghost -- The case of the French savant -- An envoy to Lhasa -- The case of Anton Furer -- The giant rat of Sumatra -- A singular affair at Trincomalee -- Murder in the thieves' bazaar -- The mystery of Jaisalmer -- Afterword by Dr. John Watson.
The Italian Secretary
Caleb Carr · 288 pages
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdered themselves en route—the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen’s servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the re