Harry Houdini Mysteries (31 page)
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Authors: Daniel Stashower
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THE BREATH OF GOD
Guy Adams
A body is found crushed to death in the London snow. There are no footprints anywhere near it. It is almost as if the man was killed by the air itself. This is the first in a series of attacks that sees a handful of London’s most prominent occultists murdered. While pursuing the case, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves traveling to Scotland to meet with the one person they have been told can help: Aleister Crowley.
As dark powers encircle them, Holmes’ rationalist beliefs begin to be questioned. The unbelievable and unholy are on their trail as they gather a group of the most accomplished occult minds in the country: Doctor John Silence, the so-called “Psychic Doctor”; supernatural investigator Thomas Carnacki; runic expert and demonologist, Julian Karswell...
But will they be enough? As the century draws to a close it seems London is ready to fall and the infernal abyss is growing wide enough to swallow us all.
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Kim Newman
Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Professor James Moriarty— wily, snake-like, fiercely intelligent, terrifyingly unpredictable— and Colonel Sebastian ‘Basher’ Moran—violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike.
A one-stop shop for all things illegal, from murder to high-class heists, Moriarty and Moran have a stream of nefarious visitors to their Conduit Street rooms, from the Christian zealots of the American West, to the bloodthirsty Si-Fan and
Les Vampires
of Paris, as well as a certain Miss Irene Adler...
“A clever, funny mash-up of a whole range of literary sources... It is extravagantly gruesome, gothic and grotesque...”
The Independent
“It’s witty, often hilarious stuff.”
Financial Times
“The notion of reinventing Moriarty and Moran as malign doppelgangers of Holmes and Watson may have been done before, but not with the firecracker exuberance that Newman brings to it.”
Barry Forshaw
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a series of handsomely designed detective stories.
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases OF THE world’s greatest detective.
by Daniel Stashower
by Manley Wade Wellman & Wade Wellman
by David Stuart Davies
by H. Paul Jeffers
by David Stuart Davies
by Barrie Roberts
by Fred Saberhagen
by Daniel D. Victor
by Edward B. Hanna
by Loren D. Estleman
By Sam Siciliano
by Richard L. Boyer
by Philip José Farmer
by Carole Buggé
by William Seil
By Sam Siciliano
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Kim Newman
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. His polluted bloodline spreads through London as its citizens increasingly choose to become vampires.
In the grim backstreets of Whitechapel, a killer known as ‘Silver Knife’ is cutting down vampire girls. The eternally young vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club are drawn together as they both hunt the sadistic killer, bringing them ever closer to Britain’s most bloodthirsty ruler yet.
“Compulsory reading... Glorious.”
Neil Gaiman
“Anno Dracula
is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.”
New York Times
“Anno Dracula
will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.”
Seattle Times
“Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.”
San Francisco Chronicle
