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It is 1916 and Holmes investigates how military secrets are being passed to the enemy from Salisbury Plain to the Western Front. A trap is set and soon the spy ring is infiltrated and a secret tunnel found that may alter the course of the war.

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A distinctly unfortunate inventor discovers that he doesn't exist. Finding himself in this nightmare situation he consults Sherlock Holmes and presents the sage of Baker Street with one of his most baffling challenges. Is it a simple case of amnesia or something far more sinister? The story involves some hair-raising transcontinental adventures and nightmare dealings with the hazardous flying machines of the day. Dr Watson lends a little light...

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Author Val Andrews was always at his best when writing about the world of entertainment and Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery is no exception. A famous magician is invited by the King to give a command performance at Sandringham, but tragically the brilliance of the entertainment is marred by the unexpected disappearance of a priceless painting from the music room. Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate and are able...

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Christmas is fast approaching - but for Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr John Watson, a sudden visitor is to change what little plans they have made for the yule-tide.James Harding, owner of a Guildford antique business, has travelled to 221B Baker Street armed with an intriguing proposition for the ever-dutiful detective.He has received an invitation from a Mr. Gerald MacMillan to assemble some friends and spend the festive period with h...

Forrage's, the world-famous emporium, and normally a place of wonder and intrigue, has had a shadow cast over it.A. W. Forrage is being sabotaged by an unknown source. Cryptic threats are being sent, and his customers are in danger.Desperate to save the store from closure Forrage seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.Ordered to keep the scandal from the police, Holmes and Watson begin to decipher the riddles as they arrive, but the ...

One quiet evening, Septimus Culthorpe stumbles into 221B Baker Street. He introduces himself as the leader of the Secret Seven - a mysterious group of seven monks who lead a simple lifestyle and reside in Grimstone Priory, an old cottage in Sussex.Two of the seven monks have been murdered in unusual circumstances. The weapon remains unknown and Culthorpe suspects that both suffered a heart attack.However, he is apprehensive of the letter that ...

For his last book Val Andrews chose to write a story involving Charlie Chaplin. As ever it mixes fact with fiction, and introduces the reader to the world of vaudeville and film that was so familiar to him. In fact, Val always said that this was his favourite novel to write and research.At the heart of the story is Hannah Chaplin who was born in London in 1865 as Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Hill. She was the mother of Charlie Chaplin, and was an...

As the twentieth century dawns, Holmes and Watson hear a knock on the door. Their enigmatic guest is Abdul Faziel, an Arab man from the mysterious land of Marrafaze - a land only rumoured to exist.Son of the Sheik, Faziel is fleeing his homeland to seek help. His father has been turned against him by the connivance of his brother, Mustapha, and the Grand Wazir. Mustapha wishes to usurp the throne and dispose of anyone who gets in his way.The p...

Follow Holmes and Watson as they traverse the streets of London and take on cases from the most unlikely of clients in these thirteen short mysteries. The collection includes ...¿¿¿¿The Lobster Quadrille - Colonel Archibald Fanshawe, from Watson's Afghanistan days, bumps into his old comrade and proceeds to invite Watson and Holmes for dinner with him and his wife. As the dinner is in full swing and the main course gets underway it is apparent...

Author Val Andrews had two major passions: Sherlock Holmes and the circus, and here he combines both in one of his finest ever Sherlock Holmes pastiches.'"Lord George Sanger. I believe?"Our caller answered Holmes in a voice that was gruff and far from aristocratic, yet with a ring of authority. "Yes. Which of you is Sherlock Holmes?"My friend said, "I have that doubtful honour, sir, and this is my friend and colleague Dr. John Watson." And so ...

Three bodies have been found along Long Acre, drained of blood and with two puncture marks on their necks.Nearby, at the Lyceum theatre, the famous actor-manager Sir Henry Irving has adapted Bram Stoker's novel Dracula for the stage and is playing the Count himself.The play receives praise, as all that is associated with Sir Henry is wont to do, at least, until the connections between the play's subject matter and the bodies found in the proxi...

An inspirational companion to any young person as they grow in their faith.

Some people, even today, think that Dr. Crippen was wrongly convicted and should never have been hanged for the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore. The incomplete remains found in the basement of 39 Hilldrop Crescent on Wednesday 13th July, 1910 were not enough for an absolute identification, although given that Crippen along with his lover, Ethel Le Neve, had apparently fled by boat to Canada, there seemed to be damning circumstantial evidence....