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Kent, England, 1762. Bloody smuggling wars are raging on England's southern coast. It's a time of daring men and bold women, and deadly skirmishes between rival gangs and the law. John Smith, a man both hanged and drowned, returns to his home village, swearing vengeance on the landowner who killed his father. There is no quarter asked or expected when Smith begins to carve out his place among the Free Traders of Kent. What he doesn't know is that the Preventative Service has sent Ambrose Grant - their most effective man - to hunt him down.

Dr. Felix Cowdrey is working in a London free hospital and hating every minute of it. Then he meets Dr. Miles Wakefield, who offers him a position at his private lunatic asylum in Essex. Intrigued by the opportunity to work with patients who have damaged minds rather than bodies, Felix accepts and sets out for Flete House. His future seems assured. But the return of a young woman to the madhouse's best bedroom will set Felix on a new path that will expose a shocking family secret and uncover a deadly conspiracy that will change his life forever.

Who is a professional daydreamer? Well I would imagine that nearly everyone listening to this audiobook has a job, and the majority of them don’t love their job. It might be tolerable, even good - but probably not what they daydreamed they would be doing for the rest of their working lives, nor providing them with enough money or time to achieve those dreams. How would you like a “magic formula” to make your daydreams come true, and by extension make those daydreams pay you to have a better living and lifestyle? In essence, you would become a professional daydreamer.

A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed “Colonel Warburton’s Madness” and “The Blood-Splattered Bridge”, plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on various Sherlockian subjects are also covered. Notable among them are the history of the real Criterion Bar and the contents of the Agra Treasure box.

Festive holidays are some of the most memorable times of the year, sparkled with feelings of sweet anticipation, nostalgia, and joy, and celebrated with rituals, pageantry, and tradition. Among all the different ways to encapsulate the best the holidays have to offer, words of wit and wisdom have a special place. They transform the intangible magic of the holidays into delightful, inspirational, and entertaining messages that transcend time and feel fresh and relevant year after year.

Holmes and Watson's exploits during the Great Hiatus are revealed in a series of short stories and novellas. These adventures include how they separately helped stop the Moriarities from starting a world war and using a legendary stone to destroy London....

A seemingly innocent concern from Lestrade about his cousin leads Holmes back into a world left behind after the affair of The Five Orange Pips. Investigating the appearance of a body at the base of Tower Bridge unveils a hidden cult of Satanists performing ritual sacrifices, until Holmes and the British Secret Service intervenes. Called to Scotland Yard, Holmes is reunited with an old acquaintance and dragged into a plot to undermine the government and give its secrets to Russian spies.

Lifeblood is set seven years after Dracula's apparent demise at the hands of Jonathan Harker and his five compatriots in the forests of the Carpathian Mountains. Sherlock Holmes is asked by Mina Harker to help track down what she believes is the returning vampire before he takes his revenge. But she may be too late.

Captain Peter Cannon of the King's Third Hussars recalls his experiences as a young cavalry officer during the Malayan Emergency of 1953 to 1956.

An eclectic mix of eight stories drawn from the annals of the MX Series of New Sherlock Holmes stories and the many Holmes anthologies of Belanger Books, all from the pen of emerging pastiche author Stephen Herczeg.

Sherlock Holmes is a Yorkshireman, born and brought up on the North York Moors, but he spent much of his life at 221B Baker Street in London. He is more than a character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination. For many thousands of followers, he still lives in their minds through films, television, stage and radio plays, and written stories. Ever since Holmes first appeared in print, people have used the stories, together with knowledge of the culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to speculate about his life. They wanted more than the 60 stories in the Canon.

Like the Battle of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union and the Battle of Midway in the Pacific, El Alamein has all the features of a monumental shift in fortunes. On the one hand, there is the once invincible Axis army being halted and then pushed backed decisively; whereas the tired Allied army begins to regroup and then successfully counterattack.

Join Holmes and Watson on 11 original adventures, spanning their earliest collaboration to their service to the Crown in the Great War. Revisit A Study in Scarlet, return to "The Copper Beeches", and learn the shocking truth behind the "Bogus Laundry Affair". There will be murder under the big top, ancient prophecies come true, and a mysterious new queen of crime all putting the great detective to the test in these action-packed stories.

In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back, he realized that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith.

This is the fourth story from The Art of Sherlock Holmes project and first appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part V.

Why motivational quotes are important for everyone. Quotes are useful for everyone. Thoughts are an important aspect to humanity, as it allows us time to process ideas and the appeal to the subconscious. Inspirational or motivational quotes capture and appeal to your subconscious mind, which cures procrastination. One of the toughest things we all have to deal with is procrastination. There is no better cure for feeling depressed or down.

Lockdown has been hard for us all. Mental health is on the decline as the current crises in depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are being exacerbated by COVID-19 lockdowns. And the authorities have failed to put out effective messages to respond to this catastrophe.

This wide-ranging collection of stories takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from their cozy rooms in London, to exploring England's bucolic Lake District, to clambering up an extinct volcano in Scotland. There is murder on the Thames, a spectacularly unpleasant Lord finds himself on the wrong end of a carving knife at the legendary Simpson's-in-the-Strand restaurant, and the brutal slaying of the brilliant Hypatia of Alexandria in 415 CE may finally be solved.

Many of the adventures of my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes the consulting detective, in which I was privileged to assist him, I have recorded elsewhere. There were however, a number of instances when, sometimes for reasons of his own which I could not fathom, he expressly forbade me to forward others for publication.

The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes presents eight new stories about Holmes which set the great detective against the background of Victorian England, an era of enormous progress, in science, transport, and medicine but which also witnessed a surge in urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each of the stories in this collection engages with an aspect of this background.