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New York City in the 1920s. The Roaring Twenties. Glitz and glamor on the surface. Murder and scandal below. And it all came crashing down. This second collection of the De. Tabitha mysteries includes: Created He Them: The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 tore the country apart. Feeling ran high. People died. Upon the Wings of the Wind: Charles Lindburg flew from New York to Paris …alone. His success was worth millions. More than enough to kill for. Where Your Treasure Is: In October 1929, the Roaring Twenties came crashing down. Some deaths were suicides. Others were not. All three books in ...

Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon’s wife had disappeared. He demanded the services of Sherlock Holmes to find her. She is much younger than he is. Highly spirited. And American. Three days later the wife is accused of a vile crime. Now she comes to Sherlock Holmes seeking his help to prove her innocence so she can avoid the gallows. Neither noble husband nor wife have been playing by the rules of Victorian moral behavior. So who did it? The wife? The mistress? The younger brother? Someone unknown? Fans of Sherlock Holmes will enjoy this mystery, set in London during the last years ...

Do you want Canada to be a conservative nations for decades to come? Eh? If we do then we have a big job ahead of us. We have to elect common-sense conservative men and women to the thousands of public offices - local, regional, provincial, and federal - throughout Canada. This book tells you how to do that. It covers every aspect of planning and running an election campaign anywhere in Canada, for any level of office. Every member of every conservative campaign in Canada will find this book useful. It will help you win.

It was the most expensive diamond in the world. When she gave out the school prizes, she was wearing it. When she entered her private railway car, she was wearing it. Then chaos arrived. People died. When the smoke had cleared, she was not wearing it. The Hope Diamond had vanished. Scotland Yard sent their best men to investigate. They did not ask Sherlock Holmes for help. The insurance company did. “Mr. Holmes, the victims of murder are not our concern. The Hope Diamond is. It was insured for £250,000. Please find it for us.” Sherlock Holmes recruits four new Irregulars and together ...

You love the stories of Sherlock Holmes. You have read the entire Canon, maybe more than once. But you still want more Sherlock -- the real Victorian Sherlock. Now there is a new series of Sherlock Holmes mystery novellas, each one of them a tribute to one of the stories in the original Canon. In this 5th boxed set are: The Stock Market Murders, The Glorious Yacht, The Most Grave Ritual and The Spy Gate Liars. SAVE 50% off the cost of buying the individual books. Download now, and enjoy more Sherlock Holmes.

SHERLOCK HOLMES is the world’s most famous detective. For over 100 years, his adventures have been read by millions of people like you—people who care about seeing evildoers brought to justice, seeing a brilliant mind at work, and knowing that, in the end, good will triumph. Return to London in one of the most fascinating eras of history. The Victorian world abounds with murderers, cheaters, swindlers, imposters, lost souls seeking revenge, villains wanting illegal profit from inheritance, and those who are falsely accused and in desperate need of help from Sherlock Holmes. These ...

On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place - the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life. On board that ship was Sherlock Holmes's friend, Victor Trentacost - his only friend other than Doctor Watson. The news of the disaster leads Holmes and Watson to reminisce about one of their earliest adventures, now over thirty years ago when the two of them and Victor went to sea. It began as a sailing race and ended as a tale of murder, kidnapping, piracy, and survival through a tempest.

On October 24, 1929, the stock market crashed. Stories of suicides abounded. So did murders. Rosalie Fitzwilliam discovered a young couple in an alley in the Financial District. Dead. She acts logically. She runs to her friend, Dr. Tabitha. Together, the two of them and their husbands and Sergeant Johan Klassen engage in the pursuit of justice that could end up going very badly for them. The story is set in New York City, Vermont and Miami after the crash. Many people suffered. A few used the disaster for a grab for power and money. Does what happened back then have lessons for the present ...

THREE NEW PASTICHE MYSTERY STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE. These stories are shorter than the other novels in the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries series and were published in response to invitations to contribute to anthologies of Sherlockian stories. In ‘The Adventure of the Humble Mr. Hier,’ Sherlock Holmes encounters the famous Mr. and Mrs. Micawber from ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens. They have returned to England from Australia in pursuit of justice and call upon our hero to help them. ‘The Adventure of Blood and Fire’ is a fictional story about an ...

A Scottish clergyman and his faithful border collie visit 221B and tell a tale of a ghostly Banshee on the Isle of Skye. After the specter appeared, two people died. Holmes sends Watson on ahead to investigate and report. More terrifying horrors occur and Sherlock Holmes must come and solve the awful mystery before more people are murdered. A tribute to the original story in the Canon, Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

SHERLOCK AND BARACK. This is NOT a New Sherlock Holmes Mystery. It is a research paper contributing to the amateur academic discipline known as Sherlockian studies. Also known as The Great Game. If the reader are not familiar with this discipline then you could start by googling "(Sherlock) The Great Game" and then indulge your imagination, employ skills of scientific deduction, and enjoy yourself. The particular study inquires into the questions - Why did Barack Obama win in November 2012? Why did Mitt Romney lose? Pundits and political scientists have offered countless reasons. This study...

A schoolgirl pays a visit to Sherlock Holmes. She has discovered a dead body. Dr. Watson does not believe her, but Holmes does and asks her to take him to the corpse. She leads the two of them to a place where unspeakable evil is present. What Sherlock Holmes learns there leads him to the hills of Berkshire and the ghostly white chalk horse that the superstitious people of the town believe is the Pale Horse of Death from the Book of Revelation. Another local resident dies, and Holmes connects the dots. They lead directly to the great horse race at the Derby and the millions of pounds that ...

“The German ambassador, madam,” said Sherlock Holmes, “is reputed to be brilliant and very difficult.” “My dear, Mr. Holmes,” she said. “He is a man. Like all men when they are drunk and in the throes of ecstasy, he will be easy.” “I must warn you, he has a reputation amongst men who have encountered him of being dangerous.” “And a reputation amongst women of falling asleep immediately after, if you know what I mean.” Sherlock Holmes blushed ever so slightly. “Very well then, I shall expect your return with the document in forty-eight hours.” He slid a small ...

(NOTE: This story is a revised edition of an earlier story, The Adventure of the Assassino Pazzo . If you have already purchased that story, do not also buy this one. Just chose another New Sherlock Holmes mystery.)Sherlock Holmes and I were standing under the balcony of a London hotel when a woman’s body fell from the top floor. The insane Napolitano, recently escaped from Broadmoor, had struck again. Strangely, every one of his victims was a French official living in London. Every day he was murdering and mutilating another victim. France was angry. The treaty with England was at risk. ...

Airplanes can be murder weapons. Passengers who go up alive may come down dead. During the 1920s, there was an enormous prize for the first person to fly from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York. Several pilots perished pursuing it. But the true prize, the one worth millions for years to come, was winning the US Government contract to deliver air mail. Before, during and after Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight, several bodies turn up in Dr. Tabitha’s lab. All are connected in some way to the business of airplanes and the aeronautical industry. Doc and Sarge, with the aid of two ...

Dushanka, a beautiful young Moslem girl has no choice. Either she must act or her mother and sisters will be raped and her little brother murdered. That's what happens to people living in war zones. Just a few years earlier the beautiful ancient city of Sarajevo was the site of the Winter Olympics. People from all parts of firmer Yugoslavia came together to build the facilities. The Games were a triumph of international goodwill, sport, and joyful celebration. Dushanka grew up in that idyllic setting. And then it ended. This peaceful corner of Europe entered the worst period of war and ...

Schools for rich girls attract creepy men. Two hundred girls from wealthy families boarded at St. Elizabeth’s College for Girls in Oxford. On 23 October, 1903, Miss Edlyn Ferenci, an upper sixth form student, returned to her room in the senior dormitory after the Vespers Service. As she was preparing for bed, she looked out her window. Perched in the large oak tree and looking directly at her was a man, a very vile looking man. He was almost naked and grinning. She pulled down the blind and ran to the room of her closest friend. A fortnight later, Miss Edlyn lay dead at the base of the ...

In 1909 the entire world of dance changed forever when Les Ballets Russes, under the brilliant impresario, Serge Diaghilev, departed St. Petersburg and opened in Paris. They also made annual visits to the West End in London. Tragically, during their 1913 tour, two of their dancers are found murdered. Sherlock Holmes is brought into to find the murderer and prevent any more killings. The story adheres fairly closely to the incredible story of the reappearance of classical ballet in Western Europe and the introduction of modern interpretive dance.

“With regret, my dear Inspector,” said Sherlock Holmes, “I shall decline your invitation to assist in this case.” “Why?” demanded Inspector Lestrade. “A cottage catching fire and burning to the ground and causing the death of a young mother may be a terrible tragedy. Such events, sad though they are, have no connection with ingenious or singularly inexplicable crime. I reserve such unique talents as those with which Providence has blessed me to attend to solving events that are irrefutably criminal.” From his seat on the far side of the breakfast table in 221B Baker Street, ...

THE YELLOW FARCE. AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN WOMAN LIVING IN JAPAN MAY BE A FOREIGN AGENT AND DRAWING BRITAIN INTO WAR. “Sherlock, this woman must be investigated. Every fortnight, she abandons her husband for several days, and every month a large sum of money appears in their bank account.” “Oh, my. Half the married men on earth who would be on their knees thanking whatever gods they believe in were their wives to do likewise.” In far-off Japan, a war is raging against the Russians. Great Britain is officially neutral, but not entirely. The Japanese are buying their navy from us. The new ...