Sherlock Holmes: Book XXII - 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 XXII 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 BUTLER

Summoned in haste to Chesham Hall, Holmes and I found ourselves confronted by the brutal murder of Baron Anselm Chesham-a singular tragedy that appeared already solved ere our arrival, owing to the apprehension of the hall's venerable and hitherto faithful butler, who had been taken red-handed above the fallen peer, the very instrument of death still grasped within his hands.]

# THE GAME OF THE GAME

London was in the grip of a singular scourge-a succession of mysterious, wholly simultaneous deaths that befell the victims at the precise termination of competitive contests, commencing with the sudden collapse of two chess masters upon the conclusion of a tournament at the Diogenes Club. Summoned to examine a scene utterly devoid of physical violence or common poisons, Holmes and I soon found ourselves the recipients of insolent missives, wherein an unseen adversary dared my friend to foresee the consequence of his own impending moves.]

# THE DUKE OF ELVERDALE

A spate of singular and identical deaths had utterly baffled the authorities: gentlemen and commoners alike, scattered across distant provincial towns, were discovered lifeless within chambers bolted from within, victims of an abrupt pulmonary collapse devoid of any outward mark of violence. The sole trace upon the corpses was a most peculiar physical token-a small mound of tobacco ash deposited directly above each victim's heart.]

# THE UNPUNCTUATED MESSAGE

The quiet routine of our rooms at 221B Baker Street was rudely broken by the anonymous arrival of an enigmatic scroll filled with dark visions, the structural singularity of which at once arrested Sherlock Holmes's keen attention: the lengthy text ran on without break, utterly devoid of punctuation. Yet, whilst the composition simulated the wild delirium of a disordered mind, the curious, mechanical rigidity of the penmanship betrayed the hand of one in sovereign possession of his faculties.]

# A RATIONAL MADNESS

Holmes and I were summoned post-haste to the desolate moors of Cumberland, there to investigate a most terrifying phenomenon at the Featherstone Royal Asylum. The director of that grim institution had been discovered lifeless within his study; yet his corpse neither collapsed nor exhibited the faintest mark of decay, remaining bolt upright with a petrified, mineral-like rigidity that utterly confounded all tenets of conventional medical science.]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNFZRR9R
• ISBN13: 9798163246090
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"