Readers will be interested to know that this collection of short pastiches featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson has been written by a 14-year-old schoolboy, Edmund Hastie.

A poisoned pawn in chess is defined as any pawn that, if captured, would lead to a serious disadvantage for that player. Here, for your enjoyment, are three new cases for Sherlock Holmes. Someone, or something, that may at first seem trivial, is actually the key to something far more consequential.

This is a Sherlock Holmes novel in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by one of the most respected Holmesian scholars in the world in which Holmes and Watson travel to Singapore to solve a murder while staying at the famous Raffles Hotel.

Some people, even today, think that Dr. Crippen was wrongly convicted and should never have been hanged for the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore. The incomplete remains found in the basement of 39 Hilldrop Crescent on Wednesday 13th July, 1910 were not enough for an absolute identification, although given that Crippen along with his lover, Ethel Le Neve, had apparently fled by boat to Canada, there seemed to be damning circumstantial evidence. As his ship entered Quebec they were both arrested by Walter Dew, an experienced Scotland Yarder who had been involved with the Jack the Ripper...

Only a few short years ago the monster known as Jack the Ripper held the East End of London in a grip of terror.Now there are rumours that the Ripper has returned. Three respectable young women have been slaughtered in Mayfair, the city's most respectable and exclusive district - but instead of consulting Sherlock Holmes, the official police prefer to seek advice from Dr. Karl Schermann. And while the flamboyant German enjoys official approval and public acclaim, Holmes sits at home, brooding. Things start to look up with the solution of an ingenious theft at Cantle's auction house, and when...

John Hall was born in Leeds and working for 25 years as an analytical chemist before embarking on a career as a writer. His stimulating Sherlock Holmes novels are written with a wonderful knowledge of his subject and are highly popular with Sherlock enthusiasts around the world.

When Holmes and Watson are invited to a Christmas house party, the host seems to have nothing in mind but bringing Christmas cheer to his guests, but the festivities are brought to a sudden halt by a horrific event.

Val Andrews is the author of a series of pastiches that do great justice to Conan Doyle's great detective series. This volume is part of Linford's series of mystery and detective stories that includes works by both well-known and sometimes obscure authors.

John Hall was born in Leeds and working for 25 years as an analytical chemist before embarking on a career as a writer. His stimulating Sherlock Holmes novels are written with a wonderful knowledge of his subject and are highly popular with Sherlock enthusiasts around the world.

"For the very first time since I had met him, Mr. Sherlock Holmes let me down." As a result, Dr. John H. Watson finds himself forced to accept, in 1883, a tricky challenge: to investigate the facts and fictions surrounding King Richard III. Richard III: Monster? Murderer of his brother's young boys? Usurper? Or a legitimate but reluctant heir to the crown, and a good king who produced laws that are still in effect in Great Britain. The game is afoot for the good doctor, from serene Magdalen College, Oxford, to the Bloody Tower at the notorious Tower of London.