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The inventor of a secret weapon and its prototype are abducted, leaving the wartime Allies in dire need of assistance. Sherlock Holmes is called and begins to do battle with Professor Moriarty, who is later to become an arch-enemy.

"For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve—the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmes’s beloved hives. But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from the past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the surrealist painter had been charged...

A fly-by-night killer is leaving Sherlock Holmes in the dark.

Dressed to kill. Music boxes made in a penitentiary lead to stolen bank plates ; Woman in green. Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of murder victims with missing fingers.

Hypnotism, blackmail and fiendish murders lead Holmes and Watson straight to the evil Professor Moriarty and his lovely accomplice.

A collection of new Sherlock Holmes tales includes "The Case of a Boy's Honor," "The Case of the Matinee Idol," and the title story, in which Holmes navigates the occult underworld of Victorian London in order to find a child's true killer.

Sherlock Holmes returns from a three-year abscence after everyone thought he was dead, with his skills of deduction as sharp as ever.