A collection of eight short stories recounted by Mycroft, Sherlock and Dr Watson as they reminisce on their formative experiences, exotic escapades and untold adventures, which shaped the men they were to become. Spanning their university years, and Dr Watson's war-years in India, our sleuths divulge their trials and errors in the pursuit of developing formidable skills and character. These stories come from the heart, revealing secretive, often humorous, eccentric and tongue-in-cheek sent...

Book 1 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.England 1899. Ten years after Holmes and Watson solve the case of the Baskerville hound, Dr Watson receives an invitation to return to Baskerville Hall. The night before his departure he meets a Ukrainian countess who claims to be the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. She is vain, rich, fiercely intelligent, and she ends up accompanying him to Devon.The same characters from the original story have re-assembled a...

Book 4 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.England 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna travel on the SS Pleiades during its inaugural voyage through the Irish Sea from Glasgow to Biarritz. On board are a bizarre handful of passengers travelling to a World Spiritualist Congress. When Madame Moghra (the most famous medium in all of Britain) is found dead and Dr Watson is accused of homicidal somnambulism Countess V must unmask the real killer in order to spare her f...

Book 2 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Scotland 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Varvara Volodymyrovna visit the Scottish Borders to solve the Lammermoor Golf Course murders. Lord Cruddock is staging a tournament to promote his new golf course but someone is killing-off the golfers.There are plenty of suspects among the golfing-tragics, weird locals and exotic guests staying at Cruddock Castle, however, it is the dowager Lady Cruddock, a Spiritualist who is oppos...

History, philosophy, mythology, absurdity: two parallel worlds switch back and forth between separate realities. You are warned at the start to enter at own risk…Medieval (1050-1054): Kyiv-Rus. Kingdom of Ukraine ruled by Yaroslav the Wise in a time of transition from Paganism to Christianity. Age of swordsmen, slavers, Viking raiders, and Byzantine hetarae.Postmodern (2022): Odesa. Week prior to Russian invasion when two Australians arrive to do a doco on Chornobyl for a T...

Book 16 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Australia, December 1900Watson and the Countess spend Christmas with Irene and Godfrey Norton at a swank seaside hotel popular with affluent holidaymakers seeking a cure for the vapours.Among the malades imaginaires is a case of consumption bravely borne by a retired admiral whose health takes a turn for the worse when a young man claims to be his long-lost son.Is the claimant a fraud? Or genuine? Is he ...

Book 3 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.England 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna travel to the city of York. Someone is killing-off the authors who write cheap but popular penny dreadfuls, and Inspector Bird, a fervent admirer of Dr Watson, needs help.The murder victims are all connected to Panglossian Publishing and it is imperative to match noms de plume to actual authors before the killer strikes again, but it appears that almost everyone in York ...

Book 15 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Australia, November 1900Eager to embrace the horse racing carnival and the cricket season, Watson and the Countess are drawn to Melbourne where the Countess meets her mother (Irene Adler) for the first time, while the doctor discovers that news of his brother's death has been greatly exaggerated.With Henry Sherrinford Watson giving Dr Watson the runaround, it is up to Irene and the Countess to investigate the murd...

Book 14 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Australia, October 1900Amongst the mysterious Min Min lights and songlines harkening back to the Dreamtime…For five years the Countess has harboured the notion that the death of her step-aunt at the monolith known as Hanging Rock may not have been an accident.Now, a French school mistress has fallen to her death during a picnic at the same place. Will investigating one death help to solve the other?Gh...

Book 6 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots:France 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna are drawn into the world of fin de siècle Paris by a series of macabre murders, propelling them into the naturalistic horror plays of the Grand Guignol.Each horrific murder performed on stage is mysteriously and simultaneously re-enacted on the bohemian streets of Montmartre.Inspector Didier de Guise of the Sûreté Nationale enlists the help of our two sleuths when ...

Book 10 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.February 1900, Venice. At the request of the Marchesa di Malaga, Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna have agreed to investigate the curious death of a husband on his wedding night. Assisting with the baffling post mortem is Dr Cagliari - whose island asylum was once a burial ground for countless plague victims. As the night of Mardi Gras draws close, Watson holds a grave fear for the health of his sleuthing companion after she...

Book 9 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.January 1900, a double mystery in the English Channel. Dr Watson and the Countess are sailing across to France aboard an opium clipper when a storm forces everyone ashore at Mont Saint Cloud. The small island's reclusive owner - a professor dedicated to deciphering a mysterious codex (inspired by the Voynich manuscript) - is found dead, under mysterious circumstances. Our sleuths suspect some dark secrets amongst the passengers....