Stephanie Baudet
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A valuable jewel known as the Blue Carbuncle was stolen from the jewel case of the Countess of Morcar yesterday. A reward of £1000 has been offered by the countess for information leading to the stone's return While the police work to trace the missing diamond, Holmes attempts to reunite a Christmas dinner and its owner. But when the detective comes across the jewel, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against time to save an innocent...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story's title character is a blackmailer who specializes in threatening to destroy the reputations of aristocratic women. Milverton obtains some letters written by Lady Eva Bracklewell. If the contents of the letters were made public, Lady Eva's marriage to the Earl of Dovercourt would have to be cancelled. Lady Eva hires Sherlock Holmes to help her. Holmes tries unsuccessfully to persuade Milverton not to blackmail Lady Eva or to at least accept...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
War becomes a real threat after a top-secret document is stolen from the Foreign Office. But why has the thief waited ten weeks to sell the treaty? Holmes and Watson are plunged into a world of international diplomacy only to find that danger can come from an unexpected quarter.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Be at the third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum Theatre tonight at seven o'clock. You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain." When Holmes is asked to look into a cryptic message received by Mary Morstan, neither he nor Watson expect to be drawn into a decades-old web of betrayal. Soon they're conducting dangerous moonlit expeditions to uncover the meaning of the sign of the four, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At quarter to eight o'clock tonight a gentleman will call. He would like to ask you about a very important matter. Do not think it odd if your visitor wears a mask. When Sherlock Holmes is asked for help by a powerful yet dim king, it seems that he cannot refuse. But the detective has no idea that this case will bring him up against a woman just as clever, cunning and quick as he is. Has Holmes finally met his match?
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Reginald Musgrave, who knew Holmes at university, hires him to investigate the disappearance of his butler Richard Brunton and his maid Rachel Howells. The butler disappeared shortly after he was found reading a copy of the Musgrave Ritual, a series of questions and answers that members of the Musgrave family have long recited when they reach adulthood but which are generally considered to be meaningless. Holmes deduces that Brunton discovered the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard is baffled by a strange case involving an apparent madman bent on smashing plaster busts of Napoleon. When the case takes a violent turn, the inspector calls in his friend Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective. While Lestrade concentrates all his efforts on the murder investigation, Holmes realizes that the key to the mystery lies in the smashed statues. This story features not only an intriguing mystery...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mr Holmes - Please be at the Black Swan Hotel in Winchester at midday tomorrow. Do come! I am at my wits' end - Hunter. After a frightened Violet Hunter turns to Holmes and Watson for advice, the crime-fighting duo find themselves pulled into a dangerous mystery. For there's far more than secrets hiding in the halls of The Copper Beeches.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story, set in 1889, mainly consists of a young London consultant hydraulic engineer, Mr. Victor Hatherley, recounting strange happenings of the night before, first to Dr. Watson. Upon arriving late at night at the appointed train station, Hatherley is met by Colonel Stark and is driven a considerable distance in a carriage with frosted glass windows to the house where he is to examine the machine. Hatherley is still under the spell of the 50 guineas...
19) Silver blaze
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes is called to Dartmoor to investigate the kidnapping of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer. Inspector Gregory, a capable officer in charge, has conducted a thorough investigation and arrested a suspect. It is up to the great consulting detective, however, to deduce from the evidence what really transpired and to recover the horse in time for the big race.
20) The creeping man
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes children's collection volume 28
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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