Three new Sherlock Holmes adventures by Seamus Duffy. When three people are murdered in London in The Adventure of the Soho Picture Gallery, the murders are accompanied by unmistakable symbols of ritualism. Holmes's trail leads to a respected peer of the realm and he unearths a web of vice, deception, and intrigue beneath Victorian society's respectable veneer. The Adventure of the Edmonton Horror offers a case which causes the wildest speculation, and which seems destined to join the apocrypha in Holmes's 'uncommonplace book' - a collection of the strangest and most mysterious occurrences ever recorded in the capital. Is it a matter for a detective, a clergyman, or an occultist? In The Adventure of the Rotherhithe Ship-breakers, Holmes tracks down a would-be assassin, yet no one is certain whom the bullet was meant for. The investigation leads Holmes to one of the foulest, most dangerous corners of riverside London, a criminal plague spot which even the locals call the Four...

Séamas Duffy's fourth novel, "Sherlock Holmes and the Sixty Steps" follows a similar format to his previously published Holmes collections: a novella together with some shorter stories. The four stories are: "The Tragedy of Langhorne Wyke" (1890); "The Mystery of the Thirteen Bells" (1895); "The Adventure of the Sixty Steps" (1897); "The Problem of the Coptic Patriarchs" (1898)."The Tragedy of Langhorne Wyke" sees the detective and his chronicler travel to Yorkshire's North Riding to solve the double murder of a well-heeled but mysterious couple. Holmes and Watson are immediately confronted with the sudden, and ominous, disappearance of the two witnesses to the murder—an elderly widow and her travelling companion. The trail eventually leads back to London and to crimes committed, but unavenged, from Holmes's past.In "The Mystery of the Thirteen Bells", Holmes and Watson, along with Inspector Lestrade, are involved in a grisly treasure hunt of a murder. In a London mired...