Sherlock Holmes Stories: River and Ocean Mysteries

Six new mysteries. One detective who was never meant to rest.

Long after the fog of Baker Street settled and the world believed the great detective's casebook closed, six more investigations came to light, each one bound not by a single city, but by water.

A river that keeps its dead. An ocean liner with nowhere left to hide. A lake that remembers what men try to forget.

In this collection, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn across docks, decks, and drowned jetties, from the fog-choked bridges of London to the deep channel of a transatlantic steamer, from the tidal mud of the Thames to the still, patient water of an Italian lake. Six self-contained mysteries, each one a locked-room puzzle where the answer is never where the current first points.

Inside this collection:

• The Atlantic Cruise Murder — A shipping magnate gathers his enemies aboard his own flagship's maiden voyage, hoping a floating fortress will keep him safe. It doesn't.
• The Murder Beneath Gaslight Bridge — One lamp goes dark on an otherwise well-lit bridge, and a clerk is found dead beneath it. Someone wanted that darkness very badly.
• The Murder at Blackwater Docks — A man is strangled at his usual Thursday fishing spot, hours before he was due to inherit a fortune he never got to claim.
• The Lantern of Dead Man's Wharf — A condemned wharf, a lantern that shouldn't be burning, and a body found where the tide couldn't have carried it.
• The Murder Aboard the Mississippi Steamboat — A sealed cabin, a bolted door, and a man dead with no weapon in the room — somewhere on the river between New Orleans and Memphis.
• The Phantom of Lake Como — A woman drowned twenty years ago is seen walking on the water again, singing a song only her family would know.

Six mysteries. Six confessions the water almost kept.

If you love the atmosphere of classic Holmes, the deductions, the fog, the quiet devastation of a case solved too late to matter, these stories are written in that same spirit, for readers who want their detective fiction patient, atmospheric, and just a little haunted.

A digital collection, delivered instantly as a PDF, read it by lamplight, if you have one.