When Leonard Smith, a publisher of erotic books, is found brutally murdered in his London flat, Inspector Lestrade asks Sherlock Holmes to assist him. Holmes soon suspects there is a criminal conspiracy behind the murder, a suspicion which is confirmed when Sir Henry Baskerville's wife, formerly Beryl Stapleton, disappears. Travelling to Dartmoor, Holmes and Watson discover that Sir Henry is, along with Oscar Wilde and others, a member of Smith's exclusive book club, and that his behaviour has become increasingly irrational. Dark events then crowd in; two telegraph boys are savagely butchered...
When Leonard Smith, a publisher of erotic books, is found brutally murdered in his London flat, Inspector Lestrade asks Sherlock Holmes to assist him....
A trilogy of vintage British crime stories by the author of the Stone Dead and Inspector Ketch series. All three are based on the historic English seaside resort of Cromer. In 'A Cromer Corpse, ' ex-cop John Bottrell is looking forward to a peaceful retirement until a dead man's body is fished out of the sea; the tongue has been cut out and a pentagram carved into the groin. It's a ritual killing, which is more in Bottrell's line than the local police. In 'A Cromer Conundrum', life's not going well for DCI Ketch of the Norwich police. He's just been diagnosed with Parkinson's, finds himself...
A trilogy of vintage British crime stories by the author of the Stone Dead and Inspector Ketch series. All three are based on the historic English sea...
In 'A Dogged Detective', we find Norfolk's lugubrious DCI Ketch semi-retired, impeded by his advancing Parkinson's and now in an advisory role to the Norfolk murder team. He's called on to investigate the bizarre murder of a young woman, strangled in a local wood. As the case progresses, Ketch finds himself drawn into the murky and secret world of casual sex, 'dogging', European drugs and sex trafficking. When the young victim's parents are subsequently found brutally murdered in their Yarmouth mansion, the investigation becomes even more perplexing. A tough case for the dogged and intrepid...
In 'A Dogged Detective', we find Norfolk's lugubrious DCI Ketch semi-retired, impeded by his advancing Parkinson's and now in an advisory role to the ...
A controversial, graphic and often disturbing account of how Sherlock Holmes, the archetypal detective, discovered the identity of Jack The Ripper, the killer who stalked Whitechapel in 1888. Based on newly discovered journals of his intimate friend, Doctor Watson, confidential Scotland Yard files, plus the intimate and revealing diaries of Dr Watson's second wife, the novel shows a view of Victorian London which peels away the layers of respectability and reveals society just as violent, exploitative and prurient as our own.
A controversial, graphic and often disturbing account of how Sherlock Holmes, the archetypal detective, discovered the identity of Jack The Ripper, th...
