A man is knocked down outside 221B Baker Street. His dying words speak of a man risen from the grave.

A Viscount has gone

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As snow falls on Baker Street, the wintry city is abuzz with excitement: the Malabar Rose – a fabled & enormous ruby – has been sent as a gift to Queen Victoria by the Marharajah of Marjoudh.

An extraordinary condition is attached: the gem must be displayed at London’s sumptuous Blenheim Hotel. How can the safety of this priceless jewel be assured?

The authorities wisely enlist the help of Sherlock Holmes & his colleague Dr Watson… but fortunately for them, they are also on the receiving end of help from Holmes’s redoubtable housekeeper Mrs Hudson & her able assistant, Flotsam the housemaid.

The Malabar Rose isn’t the only exotic attraction stirring up excitement in the city, however. World famous magician the Great Salmanazar will be amazing the lucky few who can secure tickets at a once-in-a-lifetime spectacular.

Not only that, but the world’s most beautiful woman – the glamorous, if rather risqué, fire dancer Lola Del Fuego – will be joining him on the bill.

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• ISBN: 9781788631334
• Author: Martin Davies
• Publisher: Canelo
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 340
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm















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An evil stalks London, blown in from the tropics. Stories of cursed giant rats & malign spirits haunt the garrets of Limehouse.

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Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her generation, Dora Jordan played a quite different role offstage as the mistress of one of the sons of George lll. Dora bore him ten children, & they lived in quiet happiness in Bushy Park on the Thames. This ...

Genie Street is a magical place where anything can happen. This is an ideal first chapter book series for children who are gaining in reading confidence & want to progress to reading a proper book. Each book is split into two stories, with large type & plenty of pictures, so that children can read it for themselves, with a sense of achievement. Ideal for Key Stage 1 children. When Daisy & Tom move to Genie Street, they are worried they might be bored. But before long they meet a talking cat called Jinx, & find out that nobody who lives on the street is quite what they seem! Old Mrs Kramer looks like an ordinary old lady, but in fact she is a dragon tamer! What will happens when Daisy & Tom join her for an adventure? Book 1 in the Genie Street series. ...

At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living with her husband in the pretty Surrey village of Shere. A prolific correspondent with a keen interest in current affairs, Constance kept a war journal from 1939 to 1943, recording in vivid detail what life was like for women on the Home Front. She writes of the impact of evacuees, of food shortages & the creative uses of what food there was, & the fears of the local populace, who wonder how they will cope. She tells of refugees from central Europe billeted in village houses &, later in the war, of the influx of American servicemen. She travels frequently to London, mourning the destruction of familiar landmarks & recording the devastation of the Blitz, but still finds time for tea in the Str&. A woman of strong convictions, Mrs Miles is not afraid to voice her opinion on public figures & her worries about the social upheavals she feels certain to follow the war. But most of all her journals record an overlooked aspect of the conflict: the impact on communities outside of major cities, who endured hardships we find hard to imagine today. It is a fascinating document that makes for compulsive reading. ...

Daddy mole who has mislaid his spectacles. Morris can’t find them anywhere.

So, he decides to go on without them, trusting

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Books Modern Romance Books Two love stories decades apart. One chance to prove love is worth the ride. Former childhood star & die-hard romantic Millie is bound for Key West from Washington DC, determined to fulfil a promise to her elderly best friend, Mrs Nash, by reuniting her ashes with her long-lost love. & if this grand gesture also reassures a recently heartbroken Millie that love is real, all for the better. When flights are grounded, Millie is forced to catch a ride with Hollis, an also-stranded near-stranger from her ex's grad school. Rising literary star Hollis doesn't believe in forever-loves (or even for-now loves). He was headed to Miami for a no-strings-attached hook-up, in the hope of curing his writer's block. But as Millie & Hollis make their way across country, racing down open highways & staying in questionable hotels, will their trip turn into a love story all their own?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529429152 •†Author: Sarah Adler •†Publisher:†  Quercus •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 352 •†Dimensions:† 12.6 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm ...

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On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she

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Meet Mrs Planksy, supposed retiree, reckless motorbike rider & exasperated solver of international internet scams. Mrs Loretta Plansky, a widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father & fielding requests for money from her beloved children & grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn’t changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam. By morning, Mrs Plansky has lost everything. Law enforcement announces that her life savings have vanished, & that it’s hopeless to find the scammers behind the heist. First humiliated, then furious, Loretta Plansky refuses to be just another victim. In a courageous bid for justice, Mrs Plansky follows her only clue on a whirlwind adventure to a small village in Romania to get her money & her dignity back ― & perhaps find a new lease on l... ...