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Showing posts with label Sherlock Holmes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sherlock Holmes. Show all posts

When Sherlock Holmes faces off with an odious “Jack the Ripper” like character, who wins?

Posted: 04-May-2026  



In this crossover story, Holmes comes face-to-face with an odious, Ripper-like serial killer. Their intelligence matches. The killer is bold and cunning, and a master of disguise. Despite Holmes's best efforts, nine deaths must happen before he and the London police trap and arrest the perpetrator.

Who could the brilliant enemy be? If it isn’t Prof. Moriarty or one of his minions, then who else?

Let’s find out by reading this captivating detective novel.

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Likely a first—Sherlock Holmes vs. the Occult

Posted: 19-Jul-2025




This story begins in Dahshoor, Egypt. A UNESCO World Heritage site today, Dahshoor is home to the famed ancient Egyptian pyramids and necropolises. Sir Henry, the fifth Earl of Convarran and three of his English associates, once conducted an archaeological dig there. But the purpose wasn’t merely academic—while there, they stole some forbidden, expensive, charmed artifacts and objects used by the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs in worshipping their gods, and secretly brought them back to England, thus inviting the deadly wrath of not only some Egyptian radicals who guarded them but worse, of the wicked, evil spirit associated with the stolen artifacts aka “The Black Pharaoh.”

Retribution happens in England. Soon after returning to England, all four members involved die gruesome deaths at the hands of the Egyptian radicals and/or the Black Pharaoh.

Read this book to enjoy a gripping, macabre Sherlock Holmes story, and possibly the first of a kind in which the occult challenge/attack Holmes.

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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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Here’s a book to read if you want to know what really led Jack Stapleton (of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles) to kill his uncle Sir Charles Baskerville.

Posted: 27-Mar-2025



If the The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of your favorite novels, you surely remember its sinister, sordid end, don’t you? It was an inside job traced to Jack Stapleton (alias Rodger Baskerville II). Jack proved to be the knave who killed his own uncle, Sir Charles Baskerville, in an attempt to inherit Baskerville's estate.

But what was Jack’s motive? Was he just an indolent aristocrat who didn’t want to work for a living, preferring instead to live on inherited riches? Did he do it suddenly, without warning or out of desperation, after all attempts to get his share by just means had failed?

Read this book to find out.

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Sherlock Holmes solves a complex case in which he recovers millions looted from the biggest banks of France and England

Posted: 17-Apr-2024



The formula for looting large banks: distract the police by a prior high-profile crime and while they are disoriented and focused on it, loot the bank! In this Sherlock Holmes story, the formula is synchronously applied to steal millions from Banque de France and Bank of England by an international network of big time criminals. Yet, Sherlock Holmes and his French counterparts snatch victory from the hands of these powerful criminals just in the nick of time.

There’s a reason why the robberies are committed at the same time and hence the book’s title ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Synchrony Stratagem’. Read this book to find out, while you uravel a great story!

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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

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.

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