Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of those authors whose literary creation is much more famous than the man himself. Those who do know the name Arthur Conan Doyle tend to know him only as the inventor of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. A smaller segment of this group goes further and remembers Doyle as the inventor of the great detective who squandered his fame with crackpot beliefs in faeries and the supernatural. Sadly, there is so much more to the man who revolutionized the writing not just of detective fiction but also of the genre of horror, the supernatural, and even...

Terror Strikes During the Christmas season, a young man named Jonas Bogswell brings a most baffling case to Sherlock Holmes and the MacDougall Twins. A dinosaur with razor-sharp claws and a terrifying scream has been spotted roaming the hills of Surrey. But how can a prehistoric creature be alive in Victorian England? Police suspect Jonas Bogswell is really behind the attacks, and he needs the help of Sherlock Holmes, the MacDougall Twins and their faithful canine friend Toby to prove his innocence. Is Jonas completely innocent, or do he and his family have more knowledge of the dinosaur...

Winter, 1890. A deep freeze has fallen upon London, and its citizens remain huddled indoors. But the cogs of the criminal underworld never stop turning, and Holmes and Watson find themselves embroiled in a crime that rocks the centre of the art world. Sir Wellington is disturbed in the middle of the night, apprehending a thief attempting to steal his rare and valuable 14th portrait of King Edward III. In the kerfuffle that follows, the painting is set ablaze and the thief escapes. When the police track down the criminal to take him to the station, he is fatally shot by an unknown assailant....

Digby, a London street dog, hopes he can find a crumb of food and maybe a warm place to sleep around the next corner. Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with the Great Detective himself, Sherlock Holmes Digby is thrilled. He decides to prove his worth to Holmes by helping him solve his latest case. However, Digby discovers that detectives have to follow certain rules. No scratching in public. No howling in concert halls. No ruining Mr. Holmes' shoes. Who knew that solving crimes could be so hard? Can Digby help Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the Adventure of the Red-Headed League,...

With these 33 short stories, author GC Rosenquist recalls what growing up in Lake County, Illinois in the 1970's was like; laugh out-loud, knee-slapping, hyperventilatingly funny Learn the secret that makes Pester Anderson's chickens grow so big, get revenge on an evil ice cream man, explore the depths of Glimmer Pond in a leaky homemade diving helmet, fish with dad at 2am on a freezing Lake Michigan pier, see how high a pair of stilts can go, meet the Amazing Monkey Woman at the Lake County Fair, dare to eat mom's Gwunkies...these and an all new story, "Fast Ball," are just some of the...

"If Samuel Pepys could fill nine years' worth of journals with tales of arguments with his wife, visits to the theatres, fire and plague, then I am fairly confident I should be able to achieve a similar feat - with the exception of the plague, that is." Thus begins Mycroft Holmes's valiant, if irregular, attempt to chronicle his doings. Rediscovered in 1976 and now fully translated from an obscure code, Mycroft's diaries reveal that a brother's lot is not always a happy one, especially when that brother happens to be London's only consulting detective. In this humorous look at the world of...