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With a young Sherlock Holmes immersed in despair, the only thing that can rouse him from this blackness comes when he uncovers a sinister plot unleashed by Malefactor.

"London's latest dead have wounds that look like they were made by something not native to the city. His brother Mycroft points Sherlock to Dr. Moreau's experiments." --

Alistair Hemsworth produces a real and very dreadful dragon as Sherlock Holmes and Irene Doyle celebrate Irene's sixteenth birthday. But then the magician is arrested by Inspector Lestrade and his son because they have found blood in Hemsworth's secret workshop and Hemsworth's rival has disappeared. There is no body. Has Hemsworth killed the man since he has also stolen his wife.

Master detective Sherlock Holmes sets an elaborate trap to capture the wicked Professor Moriarty and dismantle his criminal organization, but Moriarty has his own plans.

"While on summer vacation at the seaside, twelve-year-old Irene Adler meets the young Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Arsène Lupin--and when a dead body floats ashore the three young friends set out to solve the mystery." --

In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes discovers that his American tutor is hunting a notorious killer who was supposedly killed by the United States government, but who is apparently alive and well in Surrey, England.

In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.

Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.