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Many of the adventures of my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes the consulting detective, in which I was privileged to assist him, I have recorded elsewhere. There were however, a number of instances when, sometimes for reasons of his own which I could not fathom, he expressly forbade me to forward others for publication.

Alyn is a successful businessman with no time for any supernatural twaddle so when his friend Marty claims to have met a ‘witch girl’ it is just another story. By chance he meets the same girl and is drawn to her in spite of her reputation. But there is another that would keep her from any that seek get close. Ignoring all the warning signs he seeks to get closer still, dismissing as imagination the strange events that happen until at last he is brought face to face with the awesome might of the Guardian. Only then does he realise that he is powerless in the face of the nightmare from ...

When a reservation scout discovers a woman’s body, it triggers a chilling chain of events including corruption, kidnapping, and murder. Rex Chambers—charismatic, powerful, and on the verge of becoming Oregon’s next governor—harbors dark secrets he’ll do anything to protect… An extortionist threatens to blow up a hydroelectric dam unless a ransom is paid. Is the threat real, or a smokescreen for his evil intentions? ... Credit Manager Shayla Treppa investigates illicit payments to a shadowy corporation—then she vanishes without a trace… A young Native American, distrustful of...

"The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final full novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that featured his greatest creation: the world's first consulting detective, the brilliant and legendary Sherlock Holmes.

NEW FOR 2023 – STAND-ALONE, #20 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." AN ATTEMPTED MURDER in the United States … a tragic road death in a Cumbrian forest … an old photograph stolen from an ancient coaching inn. Unrelated events – until a midnight drowning below Ouse Bridge exposes a connection. After two decades, has a killer returned to Cumbria to ply their trade? Does a suspect hide in plain sight among loose acquaintances? Who is truthful and who is lying? Skelgill must patiently circle … until finally he picks up ...

NEW FOR 2023 – STAND-ALONE, #21 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL ... A reality documentary crew is on the hunt for a victim. An unsolved murder from the 1970s that could leave the authorities red-faced. Celebrity criminologist Professor Simeon Freud plans to bask in the glory. Posing as a researcher, DS Jones joins the production team, but Skelgill must work in the shadows. His instincts rebel – not least that his protégé is prey to a narcissist on the one hand and a killer on ...

Inspector Samuel Tay is the best homicide detective Singapore CID ever had, but Tay's bosses don't like him and he doesn't like them. The maverick streak he inherited from his American father makes people uneasy in well-ordered little Singapore where go-along-to-get-along is practically the national religion. The wife of the American ambassador has been murdered and her body posed in a hotel room in a grotesque sexual display. The FBI says terrorists are responsible, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. The whispers say that a serial killer is stalking prominent American ...

Anthony Cade acepta entregar unas memorias en Londres, sin saber que se verá envuelto en una red de intrigas, persecuciones y asesinatos. Todo lo conduce a Chimneys, una antigua mansión donde secretos del pasado resurgen con fuerza. Entre documentos comprometidos, identidades ocultas y peligros inesperados, Anthony deberá resolver el misterio que esconde la casa... antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

A vanished automaton. A sealed gallery. A mystery written in gears. In the icy heart of Montreal, a priceless 18th-century automaton—known as The Silver Pierrot—disappears without a trace from a locked museum room. No broken locks. No signs of entry. Just an empty pedestal, and a question only one man can answer. But Sherlock Holmes is no longer chasing murderers and spies. This case is different. This is a puzzle made of brass and silence, a performance without an audience—until now. As Holmes and Dr. Watson delve deeper, they uncover a web of obsession, forgery, and genius. The ...

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.

Chosen by the International Thriller Writers as a finalist for BEST EBOOK OF 2021. A city that’s falling apart, a man who’s falling apart, and a girl with a secret past who's disappeared without a trace. What complicates things — complicates the hell out of them, actually — is that the missing girl is the daughter of one of the most powerful men in America. She just doesn’t know it. Hong Kong is on the verge of anarchy. Violent street battles rage between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. John August is an American ...

When his beautiful young wife Abby goes missing ex soldier Wayne Drummond is distraught and being suspected by the police of having killed her is even worse. With no trace of her being found he is close to despair when a small slip of paper gives him the smallest clue as to what may just possibly have happened. Determined to find her no matter what it might take he follows this clue and this leads him on a strange and dangerous quest to find the truth. He finds unexpected help from a young woman living apart from her husband and single-handedly rearing her son, a young, bright, but autistic...

Paul hadn’t seen his wife for twenty years, so it came as a considerable shock when he was awoken in the early hours of the morning by the police to say that she was seriously ill in hospital and asking for him. He reached her side as she was dying and with her last breath she made him promise to find Sam. He asked who Sam was but by then she was past answering as death finally claimed her for its own. It was a puzzle that took an increasingly sinister turn as it became clear that others were also seeking the mysterious Sam as well, and they didn’t want any opposition. He soon became ...

Ex soldier Alec Barstow is driving to a local supermarket when he witnesses a pedestrian struck by a speeding vehicle in the opposite carriageway and flung onto his car. He applies first-aid to the badly injured victim and passes on to the local police such information as he can in order that the driver who failed to stop can be traced. Following the accident he takes it into his head to check up on the victim because he is suspicious that what he saw wasn’t an accident but a deliberate attempt at murder. He is convinced he is right when he is later violently assaulted and ‘advised’ ...

When Martin Scanforth, a successful and recently widowed businessman visits an old Victorian mansion left to him by an uncle he has had no contact with since childhood, with view to disposing of the place, he soon discovers that matters are nothing like as clear cut as he imagines. Set in the countryside outside the small country-town of Wellworthy he discovers that there is an aura of mystery surrounding the death of his uncle which unsettles him. The house is being cared for by a frosty-faced sharp tongued housekeeper who was devoted to his uncle, and the mystery seems to envelop her as ...

Neil Hammond is by profession a design engineer, and by his own admission a bit of a square, and destined to be one of life's failures. Becoming a victim of the economic recession he very reluctantly accepts a temporary cash-in-hand job of looking after a friend's detective agency for a week while the proprietor, a friend of his from school-days is away on a case. The work seems to consist in the main of such exciting cases as looking for lost cats or watching erring husbands, but matters take an unexpected twist when he rescues a young woman from a car that has been washed away in flood ...

Whilst at the point of leaping to his death from a motorway bridge, Stephen Cheney meets a mysterious young woman who suddenly vanishes. He is intrigued, and following an unexplained impulse he goes to a sleepy little village ticked away in a forgotten corner of Sussex where he meets her again, yet once again she vanishes, leaving him wondering about his sanity. He feels compelled to find her, and in the process he recovers the memories of a forgotten childhood and realises that the mysterious girl is a part of that forgotten period. All the evidence points to her being the ghost of a ...

Lesley Jameson believes that she has everything in life that one could desire, loving parents, a great career, respect, money. But with the death of her parents she is shocked to discover that she is not their daughter, but an adopted child. She becomes obsessed with discovering her roots, even though she is warned that no good can come of delving into the past. Who is Marion? What did she fear to the point where death itself was preferable to facing it? Who is the shadowy figure that could be her father? What terrible secrets lay hidden by the unknown Mrs X who lived just long enough to ...

When Professor Stephen Brent, the widowed Managing Director of a major pharmaceutical company was driving home late one night down the lonely country road that was his normal route, the last thing he expected was that upon being momentarily dazzled by the headlights of an oncoming vehicle he would almost kill a young schoolgirl trudging along the road with an old suitcase. She is miles from anywhere, and obviously in the last stages of exhaustion, and her ankle is injured by the glancing blow he caught her as he had swung the car to avoid running right over her. With nowhere to go, no home ...

One evening on the week leading up to Christmas Russell Murton all but runs over a figure that lurches suddenly in front of his car. He is astonished when he suddenly realises it is a girl he knew at school, Suki Wainwright, a shy, introverted nobody that no one ever noticed and he has quite forgotten about. He becomes even more surprised when she blurts out that somebody is trying to kill her. Initially he thinks this is just her imagination but when more attempts are made he starts to believe that she is telling the truth. But who would want to hurt, let alone kill somebody is shy, ...