All about London and the surrounding lands, dastardly/desperate men misuse and abuse the 19th century's steam-powered technology to deceive, defraud, or even dispatch their fellow Britons. The dashing detective of 221B Baker Street and his stalwart companion must fire up their gears, physical and mental, to outwit the villains and save the day!

In the Londinium neighborhoods, someone has been collecting a limited series of objets d'art, busts of a famous French emperor -- by stealing them. When one of the owners is slain, however, the steampunk sleuth knows he is dealing with more than an overzealous art thief.

No less than a king has come to beg the aid of London's greatest detective. To avoid severe political scandal, he needs back evidence of a brief affair, but his previous paramour refuses. Can the steampunk sleuth secure the goods and the peace, or will rash royal romance lead to airship warfare?

Steam technology has advanced Victorian society greatly, but crime keeps apace too. An elderly noble is found mysteriously dead, and his only heir may be next. London's celebrated steampunk sleuth is summoned, and he brings all his brilliance to bear. But is this killer truly an ancient curse, or something far more modern and metallic?

Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

What is the secret behind a letter that shocks a man to death? Holmes was not always a famous detective. In Holmes's very first case, a simple letter shocked a man to death. Holmes explains to Watson how a voyage upon a ship called the Gloria Scott tortured a man for the rest of his life.

Hired by the king of Sweden to authenticate an odd stone unearthed by a Minnesota farmer, Sherlock Holmes soon finds himself investigating theft and murder as well.

The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The stories are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. The stories had earlier appeared under the Arkham House imprint of Mycroft & Moran.

After a double-date with Brit' and Stryyp, Ace figures it's finally time he manned up about marriage and surprised Penny by proposing. Penny promptly fetches one of Gina's hyperspace pylons with a gate open to a fully prepared church, complete with freshly teleported guests, ready to start a wedding ceremony in ten minutes!

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