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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination This sampler is licensed for individual use only.Īuthor Notes © 2009 John Joseph Adams and David Barr KirtleyĪll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. This edition of Selections from The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes © 2009 by Night Shade Books The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes © 2009 by John Joseph Adams Is available at better bookstores everywhere All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This reprint anthology showcases the best Holmes short fiction from the last 30 years, Whether it's mystery, fantasy, horror, or science fiction, no puzzle is too challenging for the Great Detective.

These are tales that take us from the familiar quarters at 221B Baker Street to alternate realities, from the gaslit streets of London to the far future and beyond. Wells, Lewis Carroll, and even Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and you'll be astounded to learn the truth behind cases previously alluded to by Watson but never before documented until now. In these pages you'll also find our heroes crossing paths with H. You won't be sure, and neither will Holmes and Watson as they match wits with pirates, assassins, con artists, and criminal masterminds of all stripes, including some familiar foes, such as their old nemesis, Professor Moriarty. But is it the supernatural, or is there a perfectly rational explanation? In these cases, Holmes investigates ghosts, curses, aliens, dinosaurs, shapeshifters, and evil gods. These are the improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where nothing is impossible, and nothing can be ruled out. Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of mystery and the imagination detailing Holmes's further exploits, as told by many of today's greatest storytellers, including Stephen King, Anne Perry, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Naomi Novik, Stephen Baxter, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and many more. But Conan Doyle didn't reveal all of the Great Detective's adventures . . . Sherlock Holmes, the world's first-and most famous-consulting detective, came to the world's attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels and stories. Of the world's most famous detective, Mr. Tales of mystery and the imagination detailing the adventures The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
