This exciting anthology brings together the work of two much admired Sherlock Holmes writers. In these stories Holmes and Watson are engaged in daring exploits applying their razor-sharp intelligence in new cases. This e-book presents ten separate Sherlock Holmes stories: By David Stuart Davies The Reichenbach Secret The Adventure of the Brewer's Son The Secret of the Dead Murder at Tragere House By Matthew Booth The Dragon of Lea Lane The Fairmont Confession The Mornington Scream The Ridd...

The original Anthony Rathe stories of courtroom criminal cases appeared on American public radio, syndicated by the late Jim French through his Imagination Theater. When Anthony Rathe Investigates continues where the radio stories finished.Prosecuting criminal cases, barrister Anthony Rathe convinced a jury to imprison an innocent man, who subsequently took his own life. Horrified at his mistake, Rathe abandons his glittering legal career, vowing to truly serve justice.

What could possibly go wrong on a glorious summer holiday? Quite a few things, as proven in this collection of deadly and dangerous tales. Eerily deserted Mediterranean hotels, baffling murders on rural Kentish riverbanks - summertime is a dangerous season indeed.A young typist about to take some holiday is trapped in her flat by an armed robber. On board a ship bound for Italy, two men attempt to steal a priceless pearl. In Paris, an adulterous aristocrat brings h...

Crime doesn’t stop for the holidays, as this anthology of gripping Christmas mysteries shows with its baffling robberies, mysterious deaths and family gatherings that go terribly wrong.When snow falls and darkness comes early, it’s the perfect setting for murder and intrigue. And when family and friends gather in country houses for jolly festivities, they’re certainly not expecting guests and priceless jewellery to go missing. But it’s fertile ground for classic cr...

It is the mid-1930s in the English village of Vale Thorn. Sir James Ravenwood, a collector of macabre artefacts and an expert in the occult, is hosting a weekend party at his country house, Warlock's Gate, in order to celebrate the unveiling of his latest treasure-a ceremonial dagger said once to have slain a vampire. Amongst the invited guests is a rival collector, Sebastian Lynch, a man who has been receiving strange threats against his life, in the shape of wooden dolls with skulls for ...

Jack is the lone survivor of a campsite slaughter of a handful of college students. Left with a concussive brain injury, he can't remember what happened that night. After convalescing, he is released to the care of his parents only to be interrogated by police as soon as he's able to speak again. His girlfriend was one of the murdered and now they suspect him of being the culprit...He begins doubting his own innocence and sanity, when he begins to have flashback dreams of his friends being...

Arthur Bayliss is the owner of a successful textile business in the north of England and a newly endorsed member of the Icarus Club. He is also a tyrant and a bully. When Everett Carr accepts an invitation to stay at Darton House, Bayliss' country house in the Lancashire mill town of Darton Vale, he knows instantly that he has made a mistake.No sooner has Carr arrived in the town than he begins to learn of acts of sabotage against Bayliss' mill, the beginnings of a personal campaig...

"I'm so frightened, because I think one of them is going to kill her."When Everett Carr overhears these words, he cannot help but investigate their source. Josephine Kettering is a frightened young woman. She fears that someone is plotting to murder her mother, the former actress Rowena Steele, and that the attempt will be made at Marsden Grange, the family's country house off the Norfolk coast. Carr, haunted by demons of his own and a growing sense of guilt about his own wife's de...

Emerging Nanotechnologies for Renewable Energy offers a detailed overview of the benefits and applications of nanotechnology in the renewable energy sector. The book highlights recent work carried out on the emerging role of nanotechnology in renewable energy applications, ranging from photovoltaics, to battery technology and energy from waste. Written by international authors from both industry and academia, the book covers topics including scaling up from laboratory to industrial scale. ...

The Icarus Club is one of London's most prestigious gentlemen's clubs, counting amongst its members the very elite of society. Beneath the veneer of respectability, however, there swarm dark secrets, tense rivalries, blackmail, and murder.Jacob Erskine is a man who can count many of the Icarus Club's members as his enemy. When Erskine is found shot dead in one of the reading rooms of the club, the police are baffled. Why was the dead man's body covered in bank notes? What is the re...

When William Lorrimer is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, the inquest has no difficulty in returning a verdict of suicide. Lorrimer had lost the love of his life to another man, and he had written a letter to his former lover explaining why and how she had ruined his life. There could be no doubt that he killed himself.But when a mysterious stranger arrives in the village of Little Marsham, suspicions of murder soon begin to circulate. The woman, who has a close link to...