Two grisly showdowns: when Sherlock Holmes and his associates pay back the wily actors of Victorian England’s flesh trade their dues!

Posted: 24-Aug-2026

While we look on helplessly, the flesh trade industry takes a toll on thousands upon thousands of poor girls, many of them minors, who are lured, trapped, and sold into a life of shame. Usually, they are forced into exploitation in vice dens. They find their captors too powerful to fight against and prevail. And if threatened, their captors may kill them. This renders them helpless, and because the industry receives tacit support/protection from highly placed persons in governments and law enforcement, it’s practically impossible to root out the flesh trade for good.

However, affected individuals like parents, siblings, and friends cannot sit back—they must fight until they get justice. Outraged by the injustices, some noble souls in the public, not directly related to the victims, also join the fight. In this book, Holmes and his associates fight the wily operatives of the velvet underworld of Victorian England on two occasions to pay them back for their utter wickedness—the first in Cambridge, around 1868, and the second in London, around 1893.

What makes the book stand out is the author’s innovativeness in writing two interlinked mysteries involving the same villain, spaced 25 years apart.

I recommend this book to all fans of Sherlock Holmes worldwide.

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A Sherlock Holmes novel: when an advanced clock's differing chimes reveal the killer’s name!

Posted: 21-Jul-2026

Talking of the world of Sherlock Holmes novels, I think the plot rarely gets more complex than in this one.

The Clockmaker’s Bequest is a traditional, full-length Holmes story. The plot revolves around the murder of a brilliant clockmaker and technology wizard who creates a highly advanced clock before his death. The chimes consist of unique musical sequences. Coded within the chimes is the killer’s name.

Holmes needs to crack this complex code to find the killer.

I found it enjoyable and definitely worth reading.

Please check it out if you are a Sherlock Holmes fan.

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Sherlock Holmes in “Shorts”: Five great short stories, each solved in about 30 pages!

Posted: 07-Jul-2025

Sherlock Holmes (and his sidekick, Dr Watson) keeps rolling on. Nearly 140 years after his first public appearance in 1887, and long after Doyle stopped writing about him, he’s unstoppable!

His fans keep moving him up with the times. By now, they’ve created second-generation detectives who follow his methods, and imported him into dimensions surely Doyle wouldn’t have even dreamed of (like angels and the celestial world, confrontation with occult practitioners, etc.) And as we move on in time, what more can we expect? Possibly themes like time travel, interstellar crime, robot-assisted crime investigation, unraveling criminals causing dystopian tragedies, and more...? Whatever the new themes, one thing is certain: Sherlock Holmes will continue into the foreseeable future. He refuses to die!

So, what does this collection offer? Five great Holmes short stories, each neatly solved in about 30 pages!

If you are the impatient kind of reader, look no further, here’s instant gratification for you!

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Allow author Harry DeMaio to regale you as he expands the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes world — all the way up to heaven

Posted: 17-Dec-2022

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The world of Sherlock Holmes has been growing unstoppably ever after he was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Even after Doyle stopped writing Sherlock Holmes stories, new authors have been employing him in new lands, times, and contexts all over the world, per their imagination. Fans love the additions too. Now, here's the latest (addition): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Glamorous Ghost - Vol 3 by Harry DeMaio.

It's a jaw-dropping addition to Holmes' world - a spacetime straddling heaven and earth! Former human beings (now saints in heaven) assist him with their supernatural powers to solve crime! Can any criminal hope to hide their crime in the future from the combined power of Holmes and heaven? Read this book and tell me of anyone who can.

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