Omnibus Eleven: The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes($25.95Value)

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Welcome back to the foggy cobblestone streets and shadowy country houses of the world of Sherlock Holmes, a time in which dangers abound amid gaslit lanes and twisted alleyways, an often perilous place where the game is always afoot! Within this eleventh omnibus in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes are three novellas and two short stories, one of which is exclusive to this collection. Included are: The Venetian Masquemaker , in which the world’s foremost consulting detective, newly-returned from America, is convinced Inspector Lestrade has made a grievous error in arresting on a charge of double murder the creator of fine Venetian Carnivale masques, an artisan familiar to Holmes from a long-ago mystery involving a bloodthirsty secret society, a case about which even Watson knows nothing…. All Desires Known sees Dr. Watson begin a working holiday in the highlands of his native Scotland, only to find himself facing an apparent conspiracy at an isolated manor house, where plotting relatives, vying for a substantial inheritance, gather as they await the death of the family patriarch, who tests their patience with his annoying habit of clinging to life, despite the best efforts of one or more of his clan to hasten his passing…. The Dead Client A distraught woman comes unannounced to 221B Baker Street with the strange claim that her brother, whom she’d found dead in his bed barely an hour before, had been planning to come that same day to consult with Holmes, concerning his belief that he was being stalked across London by nothing less than a malevolent doppelgänger, whose features were his own…. Into Thinnest Air An American medical student from a politically-powerful family turns up missing following a dare undertaken one evening at a pub with his English friends, the circumstances of his vanishing so inexplicable that any who hear of it are left with the impression he has disappeared from a rooftop quite literally into thinnest air…. The Vicar’s Case A short story exclusive to Omnibus Eleven relates Sherlock Holmes’ involvement in helping a vicar understand how someone managed to come unseen into his church, under the watchful eyes of many witnesses, and slip away with the entirety of the parish’s weekly offering. A small matter, perhaps, but one with consequences that go far beyond what they seem in the beginning…. Together these five tales from the career of Sherlock Holmes stand to captivate readers as the more than seventy previous installments in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes long have!