Step into Victorian London, shrouded in fog and dark alleys, and follow the most brilliant detective in history as he tackles cases that defy logic and test courage. Each story in this volume is a gateway to suspense, where nothing is as it seems and every detail could hold the key to uncovering the truth. Richly detailed settings, complex characters, and intricate puzzles challenge the reader’s intelligence and patience. Sherlock Holmes: BOOK XV is not just a collection of new stories; it is a journey through cunning reasoning and the labyrinths of the human mind, presenting cases that seem impossible to solve. Prepare to unravel mysteries that will captivate you from beginning to end—because in Holmes’ London, nothing is ever truly simple. # TWELVE O'CLOCK “Watson recounts the most distressing case of his life: for an entire week, every twelve hours, one or more members of the highest ecclesiastical hierarchy—bishops, archbishops, and cardinals—are brutally murdered in various cities across England, always by different methods and seemingly without any logical connection: drowning, hanging, poisoning, shooting, stabbing, and even decapitation. Sherlock Holmes faces a challenge that will test all his deductive abilities, experience, concentration, and much of his logical reasoning to unravel this religious plot.” # THE GHOST CARRIAGE “A terrifying luminous carriage appears in the early hours of the morning in Salisbury, pulled by black horses with red eyes and flaming nostrils, always appearing suddenly and leaving behind the same trail: a dead bandit among inexplicable wheel marks. Holmes and Watson are called in when panic takes hold of the region and rumors of supernatural revenge spread." # THE ENGLISH WIVES “When a lady from northern England seeks out Holmes claiming that her husband—a hat salesman—has mysteriously disappeared, the case appears to have a simple solution. But soon Holmes plunges into an investigation fraught with contradictions, lies, and seemingly incompatible clues, while Watson tries to keep up with every step of the moral and logical maze.” # THE SEVEN WORDS “For seven consecutive mornings, small pieces of paper containing a single word each are discreetly slipped under the door of 221B Baker Street. Holmes simply files them away without comment, considering them trivial. However, weeks later, a sudden flash of deduction prompts him to arrange the seven words into a sentence that points directly to an old case closed without resolution by Scotland Yard—a mystery involving an unlikely disappearance, a crime whose clues contradict each other, and a web of lies so well crafted that it cast suspicion on the innocent and allowed the guilty to disappear without a trace.” # THE ECHOES OF A CRIME “A respectable man is found dead inside a room locked from the inside, having uttered, before his last breath, only one enigmatic word: “echo.” The crime drags Holmes and Watson into a spiral of nighttime pursuits, contradictory statements, clues that cancel each other out, and characters who lie with the serenity of saints. A trail of inexplicable sounds, fleeting apparitions, and reports of repeated noises inside empty houses suggests something supernatural, but Holmes, faithful to his relentless logic, delves into investigations involving acoustic mechanisms, rudimentary engineering, and human secrets darker than any ghost.”