“Unrecorded” cases of the world’s greatest detective are found in this collection of original fiction by Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, H.R.F. Keating, and more. The stories are linked by a running biography of Sherlock Holmes, identifying the “gaps” in the canon.
After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.
Perhaps the greatest of these is Professor James Moriarty.
There was a flurry of activity as the doors were bolted and the part finished barricades of furniture completed. Quick joined the others inthe main hall to find the Wright brothers breaking open casks of gunpowder. While Kit Wright took ...
“‘Is it really possible, do you suppose,’ said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, ‘that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?’” The much praised Denis O. ...
Ten of these stories have never previously been published in book form.
Francis was pushing Marty into a corner, breaking him down, trying to get to Jonathan Harker. This would come at the beginning of the picture. The idea was to show the real Jonathan, to get the audience involved with him.
A collection of 11 new adventures and intriguing tales featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, including 'The Gargoyles of Killfellen House', 'Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden', and 'The Case of the Cannibal Club'.
This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and will appeal to the current readers of The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and Best British Mysteries.
“‘Is it really possible, do you suppose,’ said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, ‘that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?’” The much praised Denis O. ...
The stories include: Miss Havisham's Revenge by Alanna Knight, in which we discover the part Estella Havisham played in the fate of Bentley Drummle; Murder in Murray's Court by David Stuart Davies, in which Oliver Twist has to help the ...