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 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 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 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 ...

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 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 17 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Australia, December 1900Celebrate New Years Eve at Sherloch Lodge with Watson and the Countess.Enjoy a murder-hunt game dressed up as a night of glamorous death.Discover who murdered the young woman in the fern gully.Before the clock strikes midnight, add two more bodies to the count.Know that no-one is above suspicion: Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, A.J. Raffles, Bunny Manders.Ask yoursel...

Styria, May 1900. Watson and the Countess travel through the Semmering Pass to Waldenwulf Castle to attend a Christening. Among the godparents are several characters from the canon of Conan Doyle, including the odious Baron Gruner who is helping to train the Olympic archery team prior to the Summer Olympics.When bodies turn up horrifically mauled, an outbreak of rabies is suspected among the wolf population - but the superstitious locals have a different explanation, and their own w...

Switzerland, June 1900. Watson and the Countess make a pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls - the place where Sherlock plunged to his so-called death in 1891. To their delight the Englischer Hof Hotel is hosting a hot air balloon festival and they are soon caught up in the joie de vivre of the Montgolfier enthusiasts.Perilous accidents soon become the order of the day as balloons start falling out of the sky and tourists start slipping off the narrow pathway into the treacherous wate...