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At first glance, there’s no evidence of a crime. No signs of force. No clear suspect. But something about it doesn’t sit right. As Walker digs deeper, small inconsistencies begin to emerge — subtle details that suggest the victims didn’t leave by choice after all. Waiting. Watching. Choosing the perfect moment. Because what better place to disappear…than somewhere no one is really looking? A place built on movement. On anonymity. On trust. And at the centre of it all is someone who doesn’t see themselves as a killer… But as a saviour.

The first volume in a suspenseful trilogy of mystery, madness... and murder! The "Jack the Ripper" murders of 1888 and the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889 shocked Victorian London. Few, however, realized that the two cases were linked at the very highest levels of British society. SHERLOCK HOLMES takes it upon himself to investigate the Ripper murders and bring the killer to justice... but uncovering the truth reveals a conspiracy with Royal implications. Does the play The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have a connection to the killings?

Three gripping investigations — where the stakes rise, the cases darken, and the truth becomes harder to uncover.

Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the twentieth century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial—often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios and sponsorship, against the wider view of changing artistic, socio-political, and industrial climates over the decades of the twentieth century.

The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada.

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote fifty-six short works about Sherlock Holmes. With this book of eight tales Orlando Pearson joins him on this number. In Volume X of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes, the Great Baker Street Detective busts two city scandals, engages with three great composers and three kings, couples two famous writers, investigates the fall of the dinosaurs, and jousts with Death and the Devil. Can Orlando's fourth Holmesian novel be far behind?

Mein Leben ist ein Scherbenhaufen. Ein engelsgleiches Wesen hat mich aus den Klauen meiner bösartigen Familie befreit–doch sie konnte nicht bei mir bleiben. Nur die Hoffnung auf ein geheimnisvolles Schicksal gab sie mir mit: Eine Aufgabe, der ich mich eines Tages stellen muss. Entwurzelt, ziellos und allein gerate ich vom Regen in die Traufe. Wieder nehmen mir brutale Männer die Kontrolle über mein Leben. Zu schwach, um aufzubegehren, bin ich kaum mehr als eine Sklavin. Als Angreifer aus dem All plötzlich über die Stadt herfallen,scheint das Ende der Welt gekommen.

When a man is found dead in the wetlands of rural Lancashire, DCI Jonathan Walker is called to what appears to be a tragic accident. It isn’t. As more bodies surface, Walker and DC Shelly Briggs uncover a chilling possibility: someone is using the landscape itself — the floods, the isolation, the treacherous terrain — to conceal murder.

Orlando Pearson takes up his pen once more to give us six more accounts of how Sherlock Holmes altered the course of history. Alma takes Holmes and Watson to Vienna where they meet a famous musician and his famous wife; The Tsar, the Pince-Nez, and the Six-Foot Scowl is the final resolution of The Golden Pince-Nez plus a petition from Sergei Rachmaninov; and The Queen, the Dame, and the Left-Footer sees encounters with three famous women of Holmes's time.

Three eminent chiropodists have been abducted and Holmes is called in to rescue them. His search for them involves Holmes exploring the world of amateur musicians, and, with Watson's help, uncovering the nefarious activities of those involved in the taking and selling of pornographic photographs. In this adventure he has to use his musical skills in addition to his well-known talents for obtaining data and reasoning from those data. He is ably assisted in his investigations by a visiting detective from Glasgow, Superintendent MacPhail, who shares many of Holmes's abilities.

From the day he was crowned, Henry V was determined to prove the legitimacy of his house. His father's usurpation weighed heavily on his mind, and he needed a grand gesture to capture the respect of his own countrymen and the rest of Europe. What better way than to follow in his great-grandfather Edward III's footsteps, and recover the territory lost in France over the previous fifty years? Better yet, why not go for the crown? Poor, deranged Charles VI couldn't manage his own barons.

What if the darkness of Lovecraft’s decadent New England overlapped into the Victorian era of Sherlock Holmes? What if a trail of clues led to impossible visions, malevolent gods, and unspeakably eldritch vistas of terror? Could Holmes survive? Could his sanity survive? Twenty-five new stories across two volumes pit Holmes and Watson against myriad nightmares from Lovecraft’s fiction––and against those nightmares which his writings have inspired.

When her mentally disabled son develops a strange obsession, Audrey Johnson contacts private investigator John “Slim” Hardy for help.

A trio of bizarre deaths, starting with that of a renowned surgeon, sends Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard deep into a maelstrom of murder and mayhem. Does a mysterious piece of paper that leads them to the British Museum hold the key to these killings? And what are they truly dealing with? As the death toll climbs, Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade race to solve the dreadful mystery of the Curse of Neb-Heka-Ra.

They came to our world a hundred years ago. Before we knew it they overran the world, destroyed our infrastructure and now we live in habitats. That's the best we can call our living accommodations. They terraformed the world… What remains of humanity whispers about a plan to evacuate some of us. They claim that scientists hid away in a bunker somewhere where they retro-fitted one of their spaceships.

Duke Boleslav, brother to Wenceslas, reveals to his young son his own life's dreadful tale, and why this boy must dedicate his life to his father's salvation. Pagan priests vie with one another and with the growing power of Christianity. Prague is a trading center with an important slave market, a thriving iron industry, and is a crossroads of far-reaching trade routes. It is growing in wealth, yet threatened by jealous enemies and forces, both external and within its borders.

Watson is in the vaults of his bank Cox & Co., looking for a gift given to him by his wife Mary, shortly after they met. While he is there, his eye inevitably falls upon his old despatch box and he spends the following hours looking through the adventures he shared with Sherlock Holmes. After much consideration, he chooses a group of cases, all of which had a profound effect on him and decides to publish them in this new volume.

What if the darkness of Lovecraft’s decadent New England overlapped into the Victorian era of Sherlock Holmes? Twenty-five new stories across two volumes pit Holmes and Watson against myriad nightmares from Lovecraft’s fiction—and against those nightmares which his writings have inspired. Join us as we journey from the familiar fog of Baker Street to the rotting gambrel roofs of Arkham, the blasphemous library of Miskatonic University, and beyond....

A new brotherhood formed by a blood ritual. The Iron Born Pirates feared and hated above all swashbucklers, were considered the most ruthless band of Buccaneers sailing upon the Spanish Main. They rob and destroy at will, with no one to end their reign of terror. They are brothers of blood until the end of life. Shipwrecked…abandoned…rescued by the enemy. Should he save a pirate’s life to gain his freedom?

What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and "The Great Sausage Scandal" have in common? They're all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang, an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the mail that mystery fans send to Sherlock Holmes. In the sequel to Sherlock's Secretary, Addy, his true crime reporter girlfriend Zabel, and his friends Sanna and Jasper travel to Scotland in order to solve a missing persons case connected to a prop from the classic movie The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.