Step into the London of our late Queen, a city shrouded in pea-souper fog and sinister, dark courts, and follow the world's most singular consulting detective as he applies his methods to problems that defy ordinary reason and try a man's pluck. Each narrative in this volume flings wide a door to suspense, wherein scarcely anything is as it appears, and the most trivial detail may well prove the singular key required for the elucidation of the truth.
Atmosphere of the richest colour, complex characters, and intricate problems will try the reader's intellect and patience alike.
Sherlock Holmes: BOOK I is no mere miscellany of novel adventures; it is a progress through the rigorous science of deduction and the labyrinthine recesses of the human mind, presenting problems which appear utterly beyond solution.
Prepare your mind, therefore, to unravel mysteries which cannot fail to hold your singular attention from the outset to the very end - for in the London of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, nothing is ever entirely simple.
# MURDERS IN ESSEX Horror, consternation, and despair have laid siege to the county of Essex, by reason of a series of macabre outrages which utterly defy ordinary logic and deduction. Between cryptic missives and cold-blooded murders meticulously executed, Mr. Sherlock Holmes must discern the subtle patterns that escape the common eye, before the miscreant can claim fresh victims.]
# THE SEALED WAGON MYSTERY Amid the yellow fogs of London, a luggage van mysteriously appears at Paddington Station, close-sealed without record or consignor. The enigma of the wax impression, stamped with cryptic characters, attracts the singular attention of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who perceives that this is no mere police affair, but a riddle of the most ingenious order. Alongside Dr. Watson, and under the vexatious pressure of Lestrade and sundry new actors in the drama, Mr. Sherlock Holmes plunges into an inquiry which combines engineering, cryptography, and the science of the human mind, whilst braving a stealthy surveillance and provocative missives.]
# THE TWIN WIDOWS A domestic mystery, wherein secrets of days long gone by emerge with most devastating force. Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must needs unravel a tangled web of duplicity and vengeance, ere the truth be lost for evermore.]
# THE INVISIBLE WRITER Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to investigate certain mysterious manuscripts which appear blank to the unassisted eye, yet reveal hidden communications intimately linked with the demise of a renowned London publisher. Among the sundry suspects are a rejected scribe, a resentful widow, and the discreet servant of a printing-house; whilst perplexing false scents do emerge, thereby fueling rumours of the supernatural.]
# THE COLLECTOR Amidst the yellow pea-souper of London, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a most intriguing problem, involving a great connoisseur and an outrage shrouded in false scents. Every detail, howsoever trivial it may appear, becomes a component in a game of shadows and hidden intentions, wherein logic and patience shall be sorely tried; a plot replete with suspense and subtleties, fully capable of captivating the reader from the outset to the very close.]
