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41) Holmes coming
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Amy Winslow discovers a secret laboratory containing a sarcophagus, out of which springs a man who claims to be a real-life detective named Holmes, who, becoming uninspired by 1890s crime, devised this method to hibernate for a century to investigate future mysteries. Amy assumes he's a lunatic; it takes her a while to realize his amazing story is true. Holmes and Amy work together to solve a string of murders being committed by an exquisitely...
Author
Series
Improbable tales of Bakersville Hall volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children called Baskerville Hall? When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides into any adventure, and Jimmie Moriarty, a boy whose brilliance...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1, 1917. High above the city, a renowned local financier named Artemis Dodge lies facedown on the floor of his armored penthouse sanctuary, a single bullet hole in his head. Thirty stories up, in the city s tallest building, and not a shred of evidence or sign pointing to anyone having broken into the wealthy man s fortress. It is--to all appearances--an impossible crime. Enter Shadwell Rafferty: Irishman, St. Paul saloonkeeper,...
Author
Series
Baker Street Academy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on a school trip to the British Arts & Antiquities Museum, John Watson and his friends from the Baker Street Academy get involved in a mystery when the Alpine Star, a famous diamond, is stolen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Hoping to recoup his losses after answering a misdirected letter to Sherlock Holmes, barrister Reggie Heath represents a limousine driver who has been accused of murdering two tourists, a case that is complicated by a letter from a descendant of Professor Moriarty.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1889. The First Terror. At a boys? prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch?s curse from over two hundred years earlier? 1890. The Second Terror. A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts? 1894. The Third Terror. A body is discovered in the dark woods near a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal,...
52) The final step
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Before James Moriarty and his sister Moria enrolled in Baskerville Academy, they were inseparable--as close to best friends as a brother and sister could be. But since setting foot on the boarding school's campus, James has been different. At Baskerville, he's become cunning, deceptive, ruthless, sometimes reckless. And now that his roommate Sherlock Holmes has been expelled, there's no one left to help Moira figure out what's going on with her brother...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In nine previously published short stories and one brand new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery, Laurie R. King blends her long-running brand of crime fiction with historical treats and narrative sleight of hand. At the heart of the collection is a prequel novella that begins with England's declaration of war in 1914.
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes novels (Tim Major) volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"May 1898: Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder stolen from a writer's research. Abigail Moone presents an unusual problem at Baker Street. She is a writer of mystery stories under a male pseudonym, and gets her ideas following real people and imagining how she might kill them and get away with it. It's made her very successful, until her latest "victim" dies, apparently of the poison method she meticulously planned in her notebook. Abigail insists...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"On the 150th anniversary of Sherlock Holmes's birthday comes the most important Sherlock Holmes publication in four decades, edited by one of the world's formost Sherlockian authorities, Leslie S. Klinger - a book that will appeal to every reader and lover of great literature. Those new to the famous detective will appreciate Klinger's clear presentation of the renowned stories in the original published order, while experienced Sherlockians will...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In the Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarity plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love-proof Holmes falls for an exceptional woman. The play was co-authored by the American matinee idol William Gillette, who played the title sleuth. A smash hit from the beginning, the play remained in Gillette's repertoire until he retired more than thirty years after its premiere.
What is the secret of the shocking death of poor...
58) The game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a conspiracy that threatens his very life. With his international bestseller, The Seven Per Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes that reinvigorated the world's interest in the first consulting detective....
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their young son Harry. Until, that is, Audrey's lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted...
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