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Sherlock Holmes is bored between cases at 221B Baker Street. So when King Oskar II of Sweden - who has heard of the discovery of the Kensington Runestone by a farmer in Minnesota - asks to engage his services, Holmes jumps at the chance to decipher the runes and determine whether the find is real or a hoax. With Dr. John H. Watson by his side, faithfully recording every detail, Holmes makes his way to Minnesota for a third time.

The year is 1896, and the magnificent winter carnival is under way in St. Paul, Minnesota, when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city's most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man has disappeared on the eve of his wedding - and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After a grisly discovery in the carnival's ice palace leads to a flurry of clues, Holmes is on the case.

After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian’s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian’s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes’ grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet.

Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.

"Anarchy is our aim.” A fire and murder at the Blackfriars’ Theological College catches the attention of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. “Barbarism is our belief.” Their investigation leads them into contact with the High Priestess and the strange but menacing disciples of, the Order of the Acolytes. “Chaos is our creed.”

Now that Wolf has embraced his inheritance of the Pembroke title, he finds himself curious about its history. Tabitha surprises him by arranging a private tour of the Pembroke Castle ruins for what was supposed to be a lovely family day out. As they wander the castle grounds, listening to the stories told by the knowledgeable caretaker, Tabitha and Wolf make the shocking discovery of a dead body.

August 1903. Emma and her husband Derrick are among the men in white tie and tails and the women wearing white gowns from the House of Worth at Tessie Oelrichs’s Bal Blanc, or White Ball, at Rosecliff, her grand cottage on Bellevue Avenue. There to cover the event of the season is young Ethan Merriman, society reporter for the Newport Messenger, the newspaper owned by Emma and Derrick. It's an utterly charming affair until a stranger intrudes flaunting a green-striped necktie and matching vest in defiance of their hostess's theme.

Lily Jones can't forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there – especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection. Back in 2020, life isn't going so well, and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis's ex-girlfriend, was brutally murdered in 1953. Lily is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn's life, but this time it isn't just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but with The Mob.

En 1941, tres figuras icónicas de la literatura estadounidense coincidieron en una apartada casa victoriana que funcionaba como residencia artística: Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter y Eudora Welty. Un día, mientras nadaban en el lago de esta propiedad, se vieron envueltas en la misteriosa desaparición de una joven autora llamada Beth. Desde entonces, ninguna pudo dejar de pensar en su ausencia y, de muchas formas, ese enigma marcó sus vidas para siempre.

London, August 1759. Lizzie Hardwicke, society harlot and occasional investigator for the magistrate, is shaken by an encounter with her estranged brother during a riotous evening hosted by the notorious Devil's Brotherhood. Beyond the opulence of this Mayfair party, a streetwalker is found strangled on the doorstep of a well-known moral campaigner, her cheek branded with the letter V.

Efter en framgångsrik militär karriär i Indien möter general Thaddeus Carlyon till slut sin död, men inte i stridens hetta utan på en middagsbjudning i London. Till en början ser det ut att vara en olyckshändelse. Men senare erkänner generalens vackra hustru villigt att det var hon som dödade honom–något hon envist håller fast vid trots att hon riskerar att bli hängd.

When Oscar Wilde answers an urgent summons to the British Museum Reading Room, he finds his friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, in a state of profound agitation. The Scots author has discovered a mysterious Casebook #5 entitled: The Faerie Vortex. The Casebook contains a highly fantastical story about a trip the two authors made to the seaside town of Darvington in response to a letter from a woman who claims her daughters had been abducted by faeries.

“The Shadow of the Witch House” by Nathanial J Blackthorne is a horror novel centered on the infamous Witch House in Salem, Massachusetts. The narrative weaves through time, depicting the house’s 33-year cycle of awakening to torment past inhabitants—like a grieving widow, a cursed mason, scheming sisters, an immigrant family, and a skeptical psychologist—with supernatural omens tied to their hidden sins and guilts.

Private investigator Matilda Wren is posing as the wife of Inspector William Maxwell from the City of London Police to infiltrate a burial club scheme. Maxwell is a skilled detective, but he isn't Hadrian—her usual ally and the man she trusts most. When the club's administrator is murdered, Tilda needs Hadrian's expertise, notably his uncanny ability to glimpse others' memories.

Kommissar Oppenheimer ist untergetaucht und muss sich mit Schwarzmarktgeschäften über Wasser halten. Als dabei ein brutaler Mord geschieht, wird seine Unterstützerin Hilde verhaftet, denn der Tote ist ihr Ehemann, SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Hauser. Zwar sind die beiden seit Jahren getrennt, doch Hilde als Regimegegnerin hätte ein Motiv: Der skrupellose Mediziner Hauser war KZ-Lagerarzt im Osten und hat dort Versuche an Menschen durchgeführt.

1926: Harriet Stone, a liberated, educated Black woman, and Lovey, the orphaned, biracial, 12-year-old she is bound to protect are Harlem-bound, embarking on a new, hopefully less traumatic, chapter in their lives. They have been invited to move from Connecticut by Harriet’s cousin, Junetta Plum, who runs a boarding house for independent-minded single women. It’s a bold move since Harriet has never met Junetta, but the fatalities of the Spanish flu and other tragedies have already forced her and Lovey to face their worst fears.

I foråret 1897 realiserer selskabsdamen Fredrika Nilsdotter sin drøm og åbner sit eget detektivbureau under et mandligt alias. Da den berømte teaterdirektør Georg Valentin pludselig styrter i døden fra Katarinahissen, indser Fredrika, at det højt profilerede mord kan være den mulighed, hun har ventet på for at bevise sit værd. For at gøre det har hun brug for hjælp fra sine fortrolige i den mærkværdige kvartet: enken Olga, syersken Hildur og tjenestepigen Edit.

Eine junge Frau wird tot aufgefunden. Ihr Liebhaber, der Hauptverdächtige, scheint ein perfektes Alibi zu haben. Doch als die Polizei von Lyon nicht mehr weiterweiß, wird Edmond Locard, ein Pionier der forensischen Wissenschaft, hinzugezogen. Gemeinsam mit der scharfsinnigen Journalistin Margaret Harkness wagt er einen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um das entscheidende Indiz zu finden. Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten, erzählt Bradley Harper eine fesselnde Geschichte über die Anfänge moderner Ermittlungsarbeit und das bahnbrechende „Locard-Prinzip“, das jede Berührung eine Spur hinterlassen lässt.

Lasciate Parigi, Verne è giunto tra le alture della Vandea, in un clima di rivolta imminente, per indagare su due morti misteriose. Molte sono le voci sui presunti assassini: spie di Luigi Filippo, oppure sostenitori della duchessa di Berry, aspirante al trono di Francia; messaggeri del diavolo che solcherebbero i mari su imbarcazioni avvolte nella nebbia, oppure adoratori di culti arcani che lanciano maledizioni.

Three novellas to expand and enrich the world of Victorian Gothic: A Spurned Woman follows a reclusive old woman, tired of life. When she is surprised by a young mother, begging help for her stricken child, the old woman reluctantly agrees to return to the village which once wanted to burn her for witchcraft. Bedlam is set between Victorian Gothic Volumes 2 and 3.