Twelve sensational Sherlock Holmes short stories from a bestselling master of the genre. Maverick detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr John Watson return in twelve thrilling short stories. The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an otherworldly stone whose touch inflicts fatal bleeding; a hellish potion to unlock a person's devilish psyche; a fiendishly clever, almost undetectable method of revenge and many more - including a brand-new Cthulhu Casebooks story. "An extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to the evolving Sherlock Holmes canon." -Midwest Book Report “Clever without ever being gimmicky and richly allusive without pretension, Lovegrove's Sherlockiana provides the deductive puzzles, caustic asides, and nuanced Holmes-Watson friendship that distinguish Doyle's canon” - Reviewing the Evidence James Lovegrove is the New York Times best-selling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly: Big Damn Hero . He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004. He also reviews fiction for the Financial Times . He is the author of Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War, Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares, Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine and Sherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death for Titan Books.