Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives criminal agents & debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street & London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog These gripping tales of mystery suspense & clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining & in them you will meet The Crime Doctor Professor Augustus SFXVan Dusen
- The Thinking Machine Max Carrados
- the incredible blind detective the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth & the natty ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont On the other side of the law there are gentleman crooks Raffles & Simon Carn
- the Prince of Swindlers The stories include '' The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe ' The Stolen Cigar Case' by Bret Harte ' The Swedish Match' by Anton Chekhov ' Nine Points of the Law' by EW Hornung ' The Ghost at Massingham Mansions' by Ernest Bramah & ' The Great Pearl Mystery' by Baroness Orczy