The Game's Afoot
Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth.Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as 'The Puzzle of the Green Skull', 'The Secret of the Brown Box', the conundrum of 'The Dragon of Lea Lane', as well as coming face to face once again with 'The Sussex Vampire'.We also learn what really happened at the Reichenbach Falls when Holmes had his fateful encounter with Professor Moriarty. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle in creating a wonderful feast of Sherlockian entertainment.
The Adventure of the Haunted Showman CHRISTOPHER SEQUEIRA When I
look back at the enquiries my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, was asked to make in
the year 1897, I recall his complaint that European crime had become
unremarkable. Holmes claimed that villainy had largely slipped back into a
catalogue of brutal assaults and straightforward (if skilful) burglaries. He believed
the glory days of criminology had ended with the removal of Moriarty and Moran,
and the more recent ...