In 1886, wealthy philanthropist Lord Backwater's murder investigation leads Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a deeper plot including a mysterious figure known as "The Man from the Gates of Hell" and an unknown criminal organization.
Mary Russell returns to Sussex with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and is reunited with Damian Adler, who seeks Russell's help to locate his missing wife and child, which leads Russell onto the trail of a killer.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson's investigate the murder of a seaman. They meet the dead man's shipmate and are told a curious story involving a strange crew and a giant rat.
Watson summons the vampire cousin of Sherlock Holmes, Prince Dracula, after Holmes disappears and Altamont's deceased daughter reappears as a vampire during a s?ance meant to expose two suspect psychics.
a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
King, Laurie R
2011
Mary Russell, having been dispatched by Scotland Yard to investigate a silent film studio, goes undercover as part of a crew working on an adaptation of "The Pirates of Penzance" and realizes trouble is brewing when real pirates are hired as part of the cast and they begin to ignore the studio owner Randolph Fflytte's orders to follow their dangerous outlaw leader.
When several members of a feminist Christian sect in London are murdered, Mary Russell, with the help of her mentor Sherlock Holmes, begins to investigate and finds herself in danger.