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Here is another quartet of unique, perplexing cases that will challenge this noble duo and test their fortitude and courage. Why would someone murder an old man a few months before his 100th birthday? Why is Holmes' arch nemesis, Prof. Moriarty, hunting the city for the same sadistic killer Holmes is after? And, when the Great Detective is arrested and imprisoned for attempting to seduce the wife of a wealthy nobleman, Watson questions whether his friend has finally lost his mind.

In 1902, Sir James Damery enlisted the aid of Sherlock Holmes to prevent the daughter of an old friend from marrying a womanizing Austrian named Adelbert Gruner who was suspected of murdering his first wife. Dr. Watson chronicled the case as "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client". By its conclusion, Gruner was exposed to the young lady when Holmes came into possession of an album listing his many amorous conquests. Then a former prostitute mistress took her own revenge by throwing acid in his face and permanently disfiguring him.

Can Suzanne - Wild Hunt biker chick and one-time member of the fae High Court - stand strong as her world falls apart? She survived an assault by redcaps, an all-out battle with the High King's armies, and her first encounter with roller derby...but how will she fare against her inner demons? Caught in the midst of a transformation she scarcely realizes and does not understand, her hard-won convictions are tested as never before.

Max Bowman has female problems. Specifically, three beautiful, rich daughters of three powerful and influential men - all of them with their own secret agendas. Unfortunately, Max doesn't know which one to trust or which way to turn, because a vicious killer is hot on his heels. And the most perplexing thing about this psychopath is that he isn't after Max himself - but everyone he knows and loves.

A frightened woman contacts Sherlock Holmes believing her husband is plotting to murder her. Holmes entraps the devious spouse and turns him over to the police. Several days later, the woman is found hanged in her home. Now Holmes and Watson find themselves immersed in a far greater mystery, one with connections to high-ranking government officials and treacherous foreign affairs.

Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and George Orwell wrote 1984. All three novels were about dystopian societies of the future. In Lady Justice and the Watchers, Walt Williams sees the world we live in today through the eyes of a group who call themselves 'The Watchers'. Oscar Levant said that there's a fine line between genius and insanity.

When a group of men and women throughout London begin exhibiting strange psychotic behavior, Dr. John Seward, from the Dracula affair, is brought into the case. Faced with a mystery beyond his realm of experiences, he turns to Sherlock Holmes' trusted companion, Dr. Watson, for help. Together these two men of science must uncover the riddle behind a white powder drug with the ability to drive people mad before the entire population is infected.

How old is too old to dream? Walt Williams always dreamed of being a hero. When retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, Walt decides it's the perfect time to achieve his dream and give Lady Justice a helping hand. So he decides to become a cop! Follow Walt as he leaves the real-estate world and retirement to solve crime and bring perps to justice. It's a bumpy but often hilarious ride. Walt and Ox, his partner in the Kansas City police department, find very unorthodox ways of bringing criminals to justice.

A famous soccer player is found dead in the clubhouse. An unidentified stowaway is murdered aboard a US Navy warship while another man is found asphyxiated in an empty, locked room. These are several of the twisted puzzles challenging the Baker Street sleuth as he once again takes up the hunt on the fog-ridden streets of London, accompanied by his faithful ally, Dr. Watson.

A vigilante is stalking the streets of Kansas City administering his own brand of justice when the justice system fails. Criminals are being executed right under the noses of the police department. In Lady Justice and the Vigilante, a new recruit to the City Retiree Action Patrol steps up to help Walt and Ox bring to an end his reign of terror. But not everyone wants the vigilante stopped.

A sailing adventure! This richly textured mystery begins in the dark jungles of the Congo basin, develops a sinister edge in the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, drips with Southern charm in old Charleston, is buffeted by seduction and betrayal during a hurricane on the Atlantic, and explodes in a violent climax in the Azores. It will leave the listener stunned at the perfidy of man - and wanting more.

Hennie McIntyre believes she has it all, perfect kids, perfect husband, and a super marriage. Until the day her husband walks out the door. Her world cascades from the weight of the devastating and blindsiding breakup. Suddenly single and under employed, Hennie finds herself unable to “snap back” and decides the only thing she can do to move forward is to go back. Back home to Lodi, Ohio.

Rick and Abby grew up together, became best friends, and ultimately fell in love. Circumstance tore them apart in their early teens, though, and they went on to lives less idyllic than they dreamed about in those early days. Rick has had a very successful career, but his marriage flat-lined. Abby has a magical daughter, Paige, but Paige's father nearly destroyed Abby's spirit.

Fifty years ago, an event happened in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that had the potential of wiping out the entire human population within that region. The event was quickly addressed by a local group trained to handle this kind of crisis. The death toll was more than anyone had expected, but the event was ultimately silenced, hidden from the radar of the authorities. Since that time, things have been quiet…until now.

Lieutenant Peter Santiago, a young submarine officer assigned to the Pentagon, has just opened pandora's box. He stumbles onto a conspiracy to hijack one of the Navy's top-secret Trident nuclear missile submarines. But the Navy dismisses his far-fetched scenario. Peter has only one hope to halt the hijack: His father, a retired CIA operative with a checkered past - whom Peter blames for his mother's violent death - and whom he hasn't seen for 17 years.

Everything in her life is taken for granted. The simplest smile, action and even goodbye. Until the day her 12-year-old son walks out the door and never returns. His brutal murder sends Jordan Wyatt into a self-sheltering world for which she wants no escape. Her life exists only for a daughter that she not only hides from the world, but hides from life. Fear keeps her from living and from allowing her daughter to live a normal existence.

Fifty years ago, Sam Moore's little brother, Billy, vanished without a trace - leaving Sam with guilt that haunts him to this day. Fifty years with no body, no leads, and no answers. Until now. When Sam unearths a mysterious green marble buried in his garden, he's shocked to find himself transported back in time - to Billy.

General Trusten Polk's F-16 explodes on takeoff in Denver. Within hours he's exposed as an impostor, a war hero politician controlled by others.

As Captain Boyd Chailland, the pilot member of the accident board uncovers Polk's lonely private life he finds another pilot from Polk's past knows all his secrets and is leaking them to the press. Congressman Roscoe Kelly is tied to bank fraud and other politicians with ties to Polk duck and weave.

When a heavy locker box arrives at 221 B Baker St. from the United States addressed to Dr. Watson, it is Holmes who finds his curiosity piqued. What is in the mysterious box? Who sent it and why? Holmes summons his loyal companion who in turn sets about telling Holmes of his own unique adventure abroad during his hiatus. What follows is an amazing mystery involving Watson's lovely wife, Mary, and her family history.

The Greer Agency tells the story of Mike Greer, private eye, in 15 connected stories. Greer, the only PI in the Altoona phone book, scratches out a living in the decaying railroad town. With the help of an anonymous benefactor, Greer gets interesting cases that he solves with pluck and determination. All the while, his romance with Susan grows increasingly more intimate.