History, philosophy, mythology, absurdity: two parallel worlds switch back and forth between separate realities. You are warned at the start to enter at own risk…Medieval (1050-1054): Kyiv-Rus. Kingdom of Ukraine ruled by Yaroslav the Wise in a time of transition from Paganism to Christianity. Age of swordsmen, slavers, Viking raiders, and Byzantine hetarae.Postmodern (2022): Odesa. Week prior to Russian invasion when two Australians arrive to do a doco on Chornobyl for a T...

Book 16 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Australia, December 1900Watson and the Countess spend Christmas with Irene and Godfrey Norton at a swank seaside hotel popular with affluent holidaymakers seeking a cure for the vapours.Among the malades imaginaires is a case of consumption bravely borne by a retired admiral whose health takes a turn for the worse when a young man claims to be his long-lost son.Is the claimant a fraud? Or genuine? Is he ...

A collection of eight short stories recounted by Mycroft, Sherlock and Dr Watson as they reminisce on their formative experiences, exotic escapades and untold adventures, which shaped the men they were to become. Spanning their university years, and Dr Watson's war-years in India, our sleuths divulge their trials and errors in the pursuit of developing formidable skills and character. These stories come from the heart, revealing secretive, often humorous, eccentric and tongue-in-cheek sent...

Book 1 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.England 1899. Ten years after Holmes and Watson solve the case of the Baskerville hound, Dr Watson receives an invitation to return to Baskerville Hall. The night before his departure he meets a Ukrainian countess who claims to be the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. She is vain, rich, fiercely intelligent, and she ends up accompanying him to Devon.The same characters from the original story have re-assembled a...

Book 14 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Australia, October 1900Amongst the mysterious Min Min lights and songlines harkening back to the Dreamtime…For five years the Countess has harboured the notion that the death of her step-aunt at the monolith known as Hanging Rock may not have been an accident.Now, a French school mistress has fallen to her death during a picnic at the same place. Will investigating one death help to solve the other?Gh...

Book 9 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.January 1900, a double mystery in the English Channel. Dr Watson and the Countess are sailing across to France aboard an opium clipper when a storm forces everyone ashore at Mont Saint Cloud. The small island's reclusive owner - a professor dedicated to deciphering a mysterious codex (inspired by the Voynich manuscript) - is found dead, under mysterious circumstances. Our sleuths suspect some dark secrets amongst the passengers....

Book 11 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.April 1900, Egypt. Dr Watson and the Countess are recruited by Mycroft Holmes to investigate acts of espionage undermining the British effort in the Boer War. A renowned Egyptologist finds himself under Foreign Office scrutiny, all whilst trying to save the temple-island of Philae from the Aswan Dam's rising waters.Sultry nights along the Nile, cruising paddle-steamers, and awe-inspiring hypaethral temples - what could ...

Switzerland, June 1900. Watson and the Countess make a pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls - the place where Sherlock plunged to his so-called death in 1891. To their delight the Englischer Hof Hotel is hosting a hot air balloon festival and they are soon caught up in the joie de vivre of the Montgolfier enthusiasts.Perilous accidents soon become the order of the day as balloons start falling out of the sky and tourists start slipping off the narrow pathway into the treacherous wate...

Book 10 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.February 1900, Venice. At the request of the Marchesa di Malaga, Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna have agreed to investigate the curious death of a husband on his wedding night. Assisting with the baffling post mortem is Dr Cagliari - whose island asylum was once a burial ground for countless plague victims. As the night of Mardi Gras draws close, Watson holds a grave fear for the health of his sleuthing companion after she...

Styria, May 1900. Watson and the Countess travel through the Semmering Pass to Waldenwulf Castle to attend a Christening. Among the godparents are several characters from the canon of Conan Doyle, including the odious Baron Gruner who is helping to train the Olympic archery team prior to the Summer Olympics.When bodies turn up horrifically mauled, an outbreak of rabies is suspected among the wolf population - but the superstitious locals have a different explanation, and their own w...

Book 4 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.England 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna travel on the SS Pleiades during its inaugural voyage through the Irish Sea from Glasgow to Biarritz. On board are a bizarre handful of passengers travelling to a World Spiritualist Congress. When Madame Moghra (the most famous medium in all of Britain) is found dead and Dr Watson is accused of homicidal somnambulism Countess V must unmask the real killer in order to spare her f...

Book 8 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.London 1899. The Prince of Wales' New Year's Eve ball is in full swing when several explosions shatter the festivity. Were they an attempt to assassinate the heir to the throne or, as it seems, intended for Mycroft Holmes himself? What is even less clear is the casus belli - is it related to the powerful Diogenes Club, or perhaps to the untimely death of Princess Paraskovia - the estranged wife of the Russian ambassador....