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Don your deerstalker cap and escape back to a late-Victorian yesteryear amid the melodious notes of a well-tuned Stradivarius, with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus One, which brings together the first eight stories in the ongoing accounts of a number of Holmes’ adventures that were until recently lost to time, only to be rediscovered in our own age. Travel along from the dark heart of Whitechapel, and to the wide-open moors of Yorkshire…. Read of an allegedly cursed statue inside a Neo-Gothic museum…. Enter a decaying house beside the Thames whose walls are ...

Dr. Watson is startled one day by Holmes’ news of an audacious train robbery, which occurred overnight on the wind-swept moors of Yorkshire. With haste the pair proceed north only to find the case which lies before them is far stranger than logic or common sense would dictate. Watson wonders aloud why the thieves would have carried out so daring a raid when the jewels aboard the train could have been gotten to in a far easier manner back in London.

Slip away from the modern world, back to an era when Victoria was queen, and amid the carriage-filled streets of ever-foggy London, take a trip to the past with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Two, which brings together seven mysteries in the ongoing accounts of Holmes’ adventures that were rediscovered in our own age. The second omnibus also includes the bonus vignette The Case of Mrs. Hudson’s Insight, an exclusive never-before-published story released only in this omnibus. Travel along from the marshy banks of the rural Thames where Medieval knights once jousted...

Dr. Watson’s walk home to 221B Baker Street one afternoon is abruptly delayed as he comes upon the aftermath of the collapse of a building under construction in the heart of London. Rushing in to give aid to any survivors, Watson soon finds that Sherlock Homes has likewise been drawn to the scene, after hearing the cacophonous noise of the disaster as it unfolded. What begins as a straightforward rescue mission soon unfolds into a mystery with a deep darkness at its heart, as shocking facts arise unforeseen in The Riddle of the Three Builders, the fifty-fourth tale in author C. Thorne’s...

Five years after the infamous events of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes again finds Sir Henry Baskerville his client, as the baronet comes to 221B Baker Street with a report of renewed preternatural goings-on at his home on the Devon moors, which, as in the previous case, seems to be connected to yet another long-buried legend within family history, this time concerning the strikingly beautiful first Lady Baskerville two centuries earlier, and the dark and fatal history which surrounded her. Telling of a terrifying menace which appears only in the nighttime, and which seems ...

What promises to be a tranquil evening in the early years of Holmes and Watson’s time at Baker Street is interrupted via a letter sent by a curator at the British Museum, who rather imperiously demands Holmes appear before him that night in the museum’s archives, and lend aid to what he describes as a threat to his honour, and perhaps his very life. Plunging out into the intemperate night, Watson joins Holmes as he enters into the vast after-hours reaches of the world’s largest museum, and there, in the darkness, meets a man whose secret past stands in contrast to the circumstances of...

Want to hear anecdotes about Sherlock Holmes and his cases—plus his domestic life—that you’ve never heard before, and won’t find anywhere else? Then this is the book for you! It’s been said that Mrs. Hudson plays a significant rôle in daily life at 221B Baker Street, yet what do we really know of her beyond her occasional mention as a peripheral character? In this book we hear Mrs. Hudson in her own unique and intelligent voice, as she tells of cases Dr. Watson never recorded, and details more than fifty recipes from the kitchens of her famous London address, dishes she often set...

C. Thorne the writer of more than one-thousand short stories, along with numerous works of poetry in all genres, is also the author of textbooks, novellas, screenplays, and magazine, newspaper, and online non-fiction articles. He lives in the United States.

A fourteen-year-old girl with a taste for the legendary and fanciful vanishes without a trace, seemingly into thin air, from her home in a Medieval manor in the Kentish countryside, leaving her parents overcome with concern, amid a household which claims to know nothing of the matter. After two days of frantic searching, including the dragging of nearby waters, and the setting of a famed bloodhound to find the girl’s trail have produced no results whatsoever, the estate’s owner sends an urgent telegram to London, calling on the aid of the most famous detective of his or any era, ...

Literature as fast as arrows! Whether you call them flash-fiction, micro-stories, or something else entirely, they’re tales that zip along from start to finish in almost the blink of an eye. In Flash Fiction: Micro-Stories, the offerings all have either: 10 words 25 words Or 50 words But no more! Read them in seconds, remember them through a lifetime! These more than 700 stories from many genres, tell tales of past, present, future, some comforting, some shocking, a few downright maddening, but whether you have thirty-seconds to invest in reading, or limitless hours, we think you’ll ...

The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Five Favourite Cases, is a sampler from the series that includes five mysteries selected from the three-dozen stories in the canon, with all-new illustrations. This is a way for fans old and new to read some of the most popular stories from author C. Thorne’s The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Included in this collection are: The Case of Cromwell’s Cranium The Case of Moriarty’s Betrayer The Adventure of the Séance Society The Case of the Snowdonia Werewolf The Mystery of Wyvern Hall Journey back to a time in which dangers ...

Together for the first time with all-new illustrations, are these collected vignettes, the bonus stories which graced the pages of Omnibuses Two, Three, Four, and Five, available now to those who may have had an interest in these little tales, but who did not purchase an entire Omnibus in order to see them. These short reads should nonetheless delight fans new and old of The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Read along in The Case of Mrs. Hudson’s Insight, as everyone’s favourite London landlady solves a case which had at least momentarily eluded Sherlock Holmes. In The Mystery ...

Confronted with a development he’d long dreamt of, a weak link in the iron-hard chain of Professor Moriarty’s criminal empire, Sherlock Holmes undertakes a series of quests which arise from clues left in a number of locations around London, each message leading onto the next, and in order to keep a prearranged meeting with the mysterious informant who has sent the challenge, the great detective must unravel a complex series of psychological puzzles before he can keep his rendezvous with the unnamed defector. It’s all in The Case of Moriarty’s Betrayer, the twelfth volume in The ...

Come along into the gas-lit days of long-ago, when Queen Victoria ruled an age named in her honour, and dare to peer into the dark heart of the underworld empire of Professor James Moriarty, a foe whom Sherlock Holmes begrudgingly dubbed “the Napoleon of Crime.” Set across the season of winter—matching the cold soul of Holmes’ greatest foe—witness a daring plot hatched in the brilliant but long-corrupted mind of Professor Moriarty grow to fruition amid the labour of many months in his unseen world of criminal enterprises. Set in London in 1886, this short story diverges from the ...

The peace of 221B Baker Street is abruptly shattered when a fleeing woman arrives hammering at the front door, having run miles to reach the famed address. It soon becomes clear from her narrative that this terrified soul is fleeing her husband, and pleads sanctuary and aid, while telling a story as horrific as it is shocking, for this runaway wife claims that she has wed a heartless Bluebeard, a man who has marriedand murdered—four women before her, and now this charming monster intends that she, the fifth bride, is to be his latest victim. Indeed, she reveals the man has already made ...

In The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, previously unknown cases from the great consulting detective's career are rediscovered, each faithfully recorded and narrated by Holmes' friend and colleague, Dr. John H. Watson. We hope you'll come along on these newly released accounts detailing adventures amid amazing, ever-remarkable, and occasionally sordid mysteries that arise on the cobbled streets of London, the deceptively placid English countryside, and in genteel estates behind whose imposing facades dark secrets sometimes lie. Striving for an authentically classic tone to these ...

Into the parlour of Baker Street one morning in 1883 comes the kind-hearted landlady of a west-London boarding house, bringing Sherlock Holmes a singular tale of one of her residents, whose puzzling disappearance is made all the more incredible by the fact this man, whom all who knew him took for slightly touched in the head, had made the claim that he was in fact from nearly a century in the future. What has become of this odd individual, and what is to be made of his apparently sincere claim that he is a time traveler? Take a journey to 221B Baker Street, and learn the truth in The Man ...

Come with us in this collection of four novellas and one bonus short story, found only in this omnibus, to a time of gas-lit drawing rooms, and horse-drawn carriages, where child pickpockets stalk foggy streets, and all-knowing servants fill every gentleman’s house, each dwelling in a Victorian world, where for Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street, the game is always afoot! Journey to a country estate, where a mysterious society of trance mediums labour together, one of whom, a beautiful young girl, claims Holmes has sent an innocent man to the gallows…. Trod down the perilous streets ...

Welcome fans of Sherlockiana, to The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Four! We hope you’ll enjoy this collection of three short stories, a novella, and a bonus vignette, which is found nowhere else but in this volume, as we return to a time where gas-lights dimly illuminate foggy cobblestone streets….where gangs of child criminals stalk the unwary from the Thames dock yards to the gates of Buckingham Palace….where ruthless blackmailers reside in the shadows, and bribe servants for the secrets of their genteel employers’ lives, all dwelling in a Victorian world, ...

From the foggy streets of gas-lit London, to country houses steeped in legend, the sixth omnibus in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes travels across the landscapes of Victorian England to places teeming with mystery and adventure. Herein a reader will meet cunning villains, and loyal friends, those who plot evil against their fellow man, and heroes who oppose them, and above all, wherever the path may take us, the game is always afoot… Inside Omnibus Six are two novellas, a short story, and an exclusive vignette, which is found nowhere else. Included are: The Yew Alley Ghost, a...