The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Further Extraordinary Tales of the Famous Sleuth by Maxim Jakubowski
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1. The Silver Lining - Bonnie MacBird - Countess Rameau approaches Holmes as her silver has been stolen and she knows by who, but that is just the start.
2. The Curse of Carmody Grange - Eric Brown - 1890. The occult writer Oswald Carmody has disappeared from a locked room.
3. Sherlock Holmes and the case of Humbug - Paul A. Freeman - The thought that the skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge has turned philanthropist intrigues Holmes.
4. The New Messi - Nick Sweet - Watson's future stepson has been abducted, but why and by whom.
5. The Adventure of the Talking Board - Using an ouija board who do they contact but Holmes.
6. The Booby's Bay Adventure- O'Neil De Noux - Miss Emily stares she needs the help of Holmes to authenticate a rare painting
7. The Adventure of the Red Dress -Ana Teresa Pereira - A writer needs to write a Holmes story
8. the Wargrave Resurrection - Matthew Booth - 1888 Mr Henry Collins has just seen in Whitechapel a man who shot himself in the head three years previously. And what of the wife.
9. The Case of the Waterguard - Jan Edwards - Billy involves Holmes to prove that his father Caleb Thomkins is innocent of murder
10. the Adventure of the Bloomsbury Pickpocket - David N Smith - A master criminal, a series of thefts and a missing young woman for Holmes to investigate.
11. The Dulwich solicitor- Martin Daley - Holmes investigates the fraud and murders committed by solicitor Silas Wagstaff on numerous orphans
12. The Adventure of the Missing Master - Phillip Vine - Reincarnation and the betrayal of state secrets
13. The Pale Reflection - L C Tyler - Cheap imitators of Holmes
14. Sherlock Holmes and the Butterfly Effect - Cristina Macia with Ian Watson - Time travellers from 2050.
15. The Case of the Secret Assassin - David Stuart Davies - 1942 London and the arrival of a Nazi Assassin.
An entertaining group of short Holmes stories



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