Albino's Treasure
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Finally, all the love and thanks in the world to my wife Julie, and my children Alex, Cameron and Matthew, who have put up with me cluttering the house with tat for years now, and didn’t complain too much when I added a pile of books on Victorian London while researching The Albino’s Treasure.
About the Author
Stuart Douglas is the author of numerous short stories and novellas, and has edited several anthologies, including Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus and The Obverse Book of Detectives. He was a contributor to Titan’s Encounters of Sherlock Holmes anthology; Publishers Weekly described his story as ‘reminiscent of the original brilliance that Conan Doyle gave us more than a century ago’. In 2009 he set up Obverse Books with Paul Magrs, which holds the short story rights to Sexton Blake and Fiction Paradox, and is the features editor of the British Fantasy Society Journal. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and three children.
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THE SCROLL OF THE DEAD
David Stuart Davies
In this fast-paced adventure, Sherlock Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium. His foe, Sebastian Melmoth is a man hell-bent on discovering a mysterious Egyptian papyrus that may hold the key to immortality. It is up to Holmes and Watson to use their deductive skills to stop him or face disaster.
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THE VEILED DETECTIVE
David Stuart Davies
It is 1880, and a young Sherlock Holmes arrives in London to pursue a career as a private detective. He soon attracts the attention of criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty, who is driven by his desire to control this fledgling genius. Enter Dr John H. Watson, soon to make history as Holmes’ famous companion.
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THE TITANIC TRAGEDY
William Seil
Holmes and Watson board the Titanic in 1912, where Holmes is to carry out a secret government mission. Soon after departure, highly important submarine plans for the U.S. navy are stolen. Holmes and Watson work through a list of suspects which includes Colonel James Moriarty, brother to the late Professor Moriarty—will they find the culprit before tragedy strikes?
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THE WEB WEAVER
Sam Siciliano
A mysterious gypsy places a cruel curse on the guests at a ball. When a series of terrible misfortunes affects those who attended, Mr. Donald
Wheelwright engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what really happened that night. Can he save Wheelwright and his beautiful wife Violet from the devastating curse?
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THE STAR OF INDIA
Carole Buggé
Holmes and Watson find themselves caught up in a complex chessboard of a problem, involving a clandestine love affair and the disappearance of a priceless sapphire. Professor James Moriarty is back to tease and torment, leading the duo on a chase through the dark and dangerous back streets of London and beyond.
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THE PEERLESS PEER
Philip José Farmer
During the Second World War, Mycroft Holmes dispatches his brother, Sherlock, and Dr. Watson to recover a stolen formula. During their perilous journey, they are captured by a German zeppelin. Subsequently forced to abandon ship, the pair parachute into the dark African jungle where they encounter the lord of the jungle himself…
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THE ANGEL OF THE OPERA
Sam Siciliano
Paris 1890. Sherlock Holmes is summoned across the English Channel to the famous Opera House. Once there, he is challenged to discover the true motivations and secrets of the notorious phantom, who rules its depths with passion and defiance.
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THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA
Richard L. Boyer
For many years, Dr. Watson kept the tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra a secret. However, before he died, he arranged that the strange story of the giant rat should be held in the vaults of a London bank until all the protagonists were dead…
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THE WHITECHAPEL HORRORS
Edward B. Hanna
Grotesque murders are being committed on the streets of Whitechapel. Sherlock Holmes believes he knows the identity of the killer—Jack the Ripper. But as he delves deeper, Holmes realizes that revealing the murderer puts much more at stake than just catching a killer…
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DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES
Loren D. Estleman
When Sir Danvers Carew is brutally murdered, the Queen herself calls on Sherlock Holmes to investigate. In the course of his enquiries, the esteemed detective is struck by the strange link between the highly respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll and the immoral, debauched Edward Hyde…
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SÉANCE FOR A VAMPIRE
Fred Saberhagen
Wealthy British aristocrat Ambrose Altamont hires Sherlock Holmes to expose two suspect psychics. During the ensuing séance, Altamont’s deceased daughter reappears as a vampire—and Holmes vanishes. Watson has no choice but to summon the only one who might be able to help—Holmes’ vampire cousin, Prince Dracula.
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THE SEVENTH BULLET
Daniel D. Victor
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to New York City to investigate the assassination of true-life muckraker and author David Graham Phillips. They soon find themselves caught in a web of deceit, violence and political intrigue, which only the great Sherlock Holmes can unravel.
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THE STALWART COMPANIONS
H. Paul Jeffers
Written by future President Theodore Roosevelt long before The Great Detective’s first encounter with Dr. Watson, Holmes visits America to solve a most violent and despicable crime. A crime that was to prove the most taxing of his brilliant career.
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THE MAN FROM HELL
Barrie Roberts
The murder of Lord Blackwater propels Holmes and Watson into an intriguing case that points to the shadowy figure known only as ‘The Man from the Gates of Hell’. A tangled web of deceit, violence and tragedy unravels as Holmes’ deductions bring him closer to those behind the plot.
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman
Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsible for such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out…
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THE GRIMSWELL CURSE
Sam Siciliano
/> When Rose Grimswell breaks off her engagement to Lord Frederick Digby, the concerned fiancé calls on Sherlock Holmes, begging him to visit the ancestral home and discover the reason for her change of heart.
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THE WILL OF THE DEAD
George Mann
A rich elderly man has fallen to his death, and his will is nowhere to be found. A tragic accident or something more sinister? The dead man’s nephew comes to Baker Street to beg for Sherlock Holmes’s help. Without the will he fears he will be left penniless, the entire inheritance passing to his cousin. But just as Holmes and Watson start their investigation, a mysterious new claimant to the estate appears. Does this prove that the old man was murdered?
Meanwhile Inspector Charles Bainbridge is trying to solve the case of the “iron men”, mechanical steam-powered giants carrying out daring jewellery robberies. But how do you stop a machine that feels no pain and needs no rest? He too may need to call on the expertise of Sherlock Holmes.
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THE SPIRIT BOX
George Mann
German zeppelins rain down death and destruction on London, and Dr Watson is grieving for his nephew, killed on the fields of France.
A cryptic summons from Mycroft Holmes reunites Watson with his one-time companion, as Sherlock comes out of retirement, tasked with solving three unexplained deaths. A politician has drowned in the Thames after giving a pro-German speech; a soldier suggests surrender before feeding himself to a tiger; and a suffragette renounces women’s liberation and throws herself under a train. Are these apparent suicides something more sinister, something to do with the mysterious Spirit Box? Their investigation leads them to Ravensthorpe House, and the curious Seaton Underwood, a man whose spectrographs are said to capture men’s souls…
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THE BREATH OF GOD
Guy Adams
A body is found crushed to death in the London snow. There are no footprints anywhere near it, almost as if the man was killed by the air itself. While pursuing the case, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves traveling to Scotland to meet with the one person they have been told can help: Aleister Crowley.
As dark powers encircle them, Holmes’ rationalist beliefs begin to be questioned. The unbelievable and unholy are on their trail as they gather a group of the most accomplished occult minds in the country: Doctor John Silence, the so-called “Psychic Doctor”; supernatural investigator Thomas Carnacki; runic expert and demonologist Julian Karswell… But will they be enough? As the century draws to a close it seems London is ready to fall and the infernal abyss is growing wide enough to swallow us all.
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THE ARMY OF DR MOREAU
Guy Adams
Dead bodies are found on the streets of London with wounds that can only be explained as the work of ferocious creatures not native to the city.
Sherlock Holmes is visited by his brother, Mycroft, who is only too aware that the bodies are the calling card of Dr Moreau, a vivisectionist who was working for the British Government, following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, before his experiments attracted negative attention and the work was halted. Mycroft believes that Moreau’s experiments continue and he charges his brother with tracking the rogue scientist down before matters escalate any further.
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THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
James Lovegrove
A spate of bombings has hit London, causing untold damage and loss of life. Meanwhile a strangely garbed figure has been spied haunting the rooftops and grimy back alleys of the capital.
Sherlock Holmes believes this strange masked man may hold the key to the attacks. He moves with the extraordinary agility of a latter-day Spring-Heeled Jack. He possesses weaponry and armour of unprecedented sophistication. He is known only by the name Baron Cauchemar, and he appears to be a scourge of crime and villainy. But is he all that he seems? Holmes and his faithful companion Dr Watson are about to embark on one of their strangest and most exhilarating adventures yet.
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GODS OF WAR
James Lovegrove
It is 1913, and Dr Watson is visiting Sherlock Holmes at his retirement cottage near Eastbourne when tragedy strikes: the body of a young man, Patrick Mallinson, is found under the cliffs of Beachy Head.
The dead man’s father, a wealthy businessman, engages Holmes to prove that his son committed suicide, the result of a failed love affair with an older woman. Yet the woman in question insists that there is more to Patrick’s death. She has seen mysterious symbols drawn on his body, and fears that he was under the influence of a malevolent cult. When an attempt is made on Watson’s life, it seems that she may be proved right. The threat of war hangs over England, and there is no telling what sinister forces are at work…
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“An atmospheric mystery which shows just why Lovegrove has become a force to be reckoned with in genre fiction. More, please.” STARBURST
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THE THINKING ENGINE
James Lovegrove
March 1895. Hilary Term at Oxford. Professor Quantock has put the finishing touches to a wondrous computational device which, he claims, is capable of analytical thought to rival that of the cleverest men alive. Indeed, his so-called Thinking Engine seems equal to Sherlock Holmes himself in its deductive powers.
To prove his point, Quantock programmes his machine to solve a murder. Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge, so
he and Watson travel to Oxford, where a battle of wits ensues between the great detective and his mechanical counterpart as they compete to see which of them can be first to solve a series of crimes. But as man and machine vie for supremacy, it becomes clear that the Thinking Engine has its own agenda.
Holmes and Watson’s lives are on the line as a ghost from the past catches up with them…
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