THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DANIEL QUESTION
In Thor Bridge Watson referred to the disappearance of James Phillimore, who stepped back into his house to fetch an umbrella and was never seen again, as an unsolved case. Many years later Holmes explains to him how he finally unraveled the horrifying tale of a dreadful revenge and what really happened to James Phillimore.

THE STRAND MAGAZINE #4 2000

THE ABBUS PARVA TRAGEDY - (THE MYSTERY OF THE CHRISTMAS PIE)
An entire family of neardowell poisoned at the dinner table on Christmas eve, a young artist arrested for murder, his sweetheart disappeared. Holmes & Watson leave their Christmas fireside for the West Country, where Holmes identifies to the local police a most unusual poisoner

THE STRAND MAGAZINE Christmas 2001

THE AFFAIR OF THE CHRISTMAS JEWEL
On Christmas Lastrade invites Holmes and Watson to assist his investigation of a large, valuable jewelled ornament from a dining table of the Duchess of Cannock during a dinner party. The suspects include a bishop, a retired admiral, sundry pillars of society and an actor playing Father Christmas. While Lestrade is overawed by the social dimensions of the crime Holmes unmasks the perpetrator and their original method.

THE STRAND MAGAZINE Christmas 2002 & HJEMMETS 2004

THE AFFAIR OF THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE
In a Surrey Village a barrister’s Clarke is kidnapped on his way to the railway station by Father Christmas. In London a radical MP steps into a conjurer’s trick cabinet and disappears completely. Scotland Yard fails to see the connection, but Holmes follows the trail that leads him to political skullduggery concealed behind a rare traditional ritual in a Berkshire village.

THE STRAND MAGAZINE Christmas 2003

THE MYSTERY OF THE ADDLETON CURSE
A BURIAL MOUND ON A North Country moor where the snow will never lie, the death of an eminent archeologist and a mysterious disease that haunts a moorland village lead Holmes and Watson to discover a spur of the moment crime which has unleashed an ancient and deadly plague.

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES