Sherlock Holmes: Book XXI - New Stories

By MARKK DYEHOUSE

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 XXI 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.

# THE COUNTESS'S TRAITOR

Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive a dramatic visit from Countess Chegwidden. She brings a seemingly irrefutable accusation against her own cousin, Charlie: a daring theft of historic jewellery and family property deeds, caught red-handed by a modern and innovative system of photographic traps concealed in the library.]

# THE TALKING HORSE

Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are sought out by Inspector Lestrade, who is on the brink of professional ruin. The reason seems straight out of a fairy tale or a delusion: in a rural stable in Sussex, a huge draught horse moves its lips and utters perfect sentences in English - revealing confidential details about a murder that have never been published in the press.]

# THE SHADOWS OF BAKER STREET

On a freezing winter's dawn, amidst the suffocating, yellowish mist of London's East End, the unthinkable happens: Mr. Sherlock Holmes is knocked out and abducted before Dr. Watson's very eyes. At the scene of the crime, only two unrelated clues remain: a crude, homemade revolver smeared with whale oil and a fine pelica ladies' shoe, straight from the aristocratic boutiques of the West End.]

# THE BRADFIELDS' TREASURE

A young aristocratic widow, Lady Bradfield, arrives at 221B Baker Street after stepping off the night train. Her account bears the hallmarks of the supernatural: her husband, Lord Bradfield, was found dead, locked from the inside in his study, with no signs of violence. The tragedy occurred weeks after the nobleman had broken into the family's sealed crypt in search of the 'Bradfield Treasure', a legacy brought back from the Crusades in the 14th century.]

# THE DIAMOND BULLET

In the midst of the most stifling summer London had ever witnessed, whilst the capital watched, spellbound, Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at Earl's Court, the underworld of Whitechapel was shaken by an impossible gunshot. Harwood Dilmaster, the city's most meticulous and well-protected fence for stolen jewellery, fell dead in the courtyard of a warehouse, struck by a single shot fired from over two hundred yards away.]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN5S1M4S
• ISBN13: 9798162747932
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"