Author: Hogan, Mike

Price: $12.99

Category:Mysteries
Publication Date:2019-05-22T00:00:01Z
Pages:214
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1799234126
ISBN:13:9781799234128
The Japanese Village Exhibition in Knightsbridge is being terrorized by a strange apparition. Is it, as the villagers believe, the ghost of murdered actor Kohada Koeiji, or is a dark human agency involved?This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghost need apply.'Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Arthur Conan DoyleDespite Holmes' injunction, clients troubled with vampires, apparitions, mummies and disembodied skulls mount the seventeen steps at 221b Baker Street and apply to his agency, and he is reluctantly obliged to investigate their claims.In this collection of five traditional novelettes, Holmes and Watson pit their skills against unearthly predators, and probe evidence that suggests ghouls and ghosts are behind the macabre, uncanny and eerie happenings in a grimy house in Stepney, on board one of Her Majesty's men o' war in the Thames, at the British Museum, at the Japanese Village Exhibition and at a séance in a genteel villa in West London.Have ghosts had the temerity to challenge Sherlock Holmes, or will Holmes and Watson uncover human agencies behind the supposed supernatural?