The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes
Title | The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Millett |
Publisher | Viking Adult |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Learning that a presumed-dead killer is alive and keeping a hostage, Sherlock Holmes sets out across multiple continents accompanied by Irish saloon keeper Shadwell Rafferty, but finds the case complicated by someone who is impersonating him.
The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth
Title | The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Goldberg |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2019-06-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250101093 |
In the third book of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale. Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England’s military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security. The police are frantic to find Ainsworth before the Germans can use him to decode all of England’s undeciphered messages. Ainsworth must be found at all costs and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him. USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg returns with another puzzling case for the daughter of Sherlock Holmes to unravel in this exciting mystery sure to be enjoyed by fans of Sherlock Holmes.
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
Title | Mrs. Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Ricca |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466883650 |
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time. Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction's greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Title | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2009-07-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0199555648 |
These are the last twelve stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s and also include some of the wittiest passages in the series.
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes
Title | The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard S. Goldberg |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-06-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250101042 |
"Joanna Blalock's keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse ... When she and her ten-year-old son witness a man fall to his death, apparently by suicide, they are visited by the elderly Dr. John Watson and his charming, handsome son, Dr. John Watson Jr. Impressed by her forensic and deductive skills, they invite her to become the third member of their deductive team. Caught up in a Holmesian mystery that spans from hidden treasure to the Second Afghan War of 1878-1880, Joanna and her companions must devise an ingenious plan to catch a murderer in the act while dodging familiar culprits, Scotland Yard, and members of the British aristocracy"--
Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong
Title | Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong PDF eBook |
Author | A.J. Low |
Publisher | Epigram Books |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9810747519 |
--Winner of Red Dot Book Awards 2013-2014, Younger Readers’ Category, 1st Place-- --Selected for National Library Board’s READ! Singapore 2014-- Meet Sherlock Sam, Singapore’s greatest kid detective. With his trusty robot Watson, Sherlock Sam will stop at nothing to solve the case, no matter how big or small! In Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong, Auntie Kim Lian’s precious Peranakan cookbook disappears, and Sherlock Sam cannot eat her delicious ayam buah keluak anymore! Will Sherlock Sam be able to use his super detective powers to find this lost treasure?
The Disappearance of Inspector Lestrade
Title | The Disappearance of Inspector Lestrade PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Madia |
Publisher | Andrews UK Limited |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2020-11-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1787056325 |
Dr. John H. Watson is a man of medical science, a man of action and a man of letters. His life has been one of adventure and romance. In 1894 he finds himself alone following the death of his great friend Sherlock Holmes three years earlier and now the passing of his beloved wife, Mary. His loneliness is all encompassing and only a true friend can help him to see there is still reason to continue living. But when that friend, Inspector G. Lestrade of Scotland Yard suddenly and mysteriously disappears, Dr. Watson takes it upon himself to discover the reason for the abduction. Watson is thwarted in his investigation by his friend's brother, Mycroft Holmes and by the unseen culprits responsible for Inspector Lestrade's kidnapping. Still, Watson battles on, ignoring orders from Her Majesty's Government, from Scotland Yard and from friends who wish only to see the Good Doctor through the darkest time of his life. Dr. Watson begins to uncover secrets long hidden and the possibility if threats far reaching that could embroil the world in a war never before witnessed. What is truth and what is fiction is a determination Watson will make for himself with near shocking understanding in the final moments.