It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.

In London, Dr John Watson convalesces after his disastrous Afghan war experiences. Sharing rooms with an enigmatic, new acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes, their quiet bachelor life at 221B Baker Street is short-lived. A dead man is discovered in a grimy house in south-east London, his face contorted with horror and hatred. On the wall, the word 'rache' - German for 'revenge' - is written in blood, yet there are no wounds on the victim or signs of a struggle....

Alan Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon with this crafty new novel in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson dodge intrigue and crime on a trail that leads to the fabled and fabulous lost Hapsburg tiara.

Contains all the investigations and adventures of the world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. This collection of novels and short stories follows the illustrious career of this British hero from his university days to his final case.

"1898. Holmes and Watson encounter American newspaper magnate, John Moxton, whose yellow press Clarion is beginning to dominate and undermine Victorian England. Public figures are humiliated then murdered. Each incident has a parallel in Alice in Wonderland. And each time the Clarion is conveniently on hand." --

"London, 1942. A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack- or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely,...

From the curious clauses in a miser's will, to a sinister tradition in an old Tudor manor-house, these twelve cases from the early years of Holmes' career in the 1880s present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.

Here are five stunning novellas featuring the great detective, by the acknowledged master of Sherlockian pastiche. In these five tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers. He cooperates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street, helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmermann Telegram,  establishes a link between two missing lighthouse keepers and the royal...

"Within this volume you will find [seven] previously unpublished accounts by John H. Watson, M.D., that take Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from London into the home counties and the south coast in the pursit of villains and justice"--