Hugh Ashton: 29 books

“I am lost without my Boswell,” declares Sherlock Holmes in “A Scandal in Bohemia”. Indeed, the interplay between the solid ex-Army doctor, and the more mercurial purveyor of “ineffable twaddle” forms a large part of the appeal of the adventures which Watson caused to be published, and...

The deed box of Dr. Watson, presented to me some time ago by a friend who rescued it from the archives of a London bank, continues to produce treasures. The stories in this collection, which I have entitled Secrets from the Deed Box of John H Watson MD, all represent some aspect of Holmes and his...

The first , “The Russian Bear”, involves the British Government, as represented by Mycroft Holmes. The circumstances surrounding it are mentioned in “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax”, where Holmes mentions to Watson that it would be impossible for him to leave London while “old...

Another discovery from the vaults of Cox and Co., the old London bank which had forwarded the Deed Box of John H Watson to the author last year. The Dispatch Box contains all manner of illuminating documents about Messrs. Holmes and Watson. Of particular interest are what the author refers...

Five new Sherlock Holmes adventures, four of which are mentioned in the Canon, but untold by Watson. Detect with Holmes in The Adventure of the Broken Door (mentioned briefly in The Norwood Builder). Thrill to the lure of the mysterious Orient in The Adventure of the Green Dragon (obscurely...

Sherlock Holmes is called to investigate the death of Colonel Cardew, who has been savagely tortured to death in a locked room. The mystery seems insoluble, but Sherlock Holmes discovers the solution, which has its roots thousands of miles away and many years previously. A Sherlock Holmes adventure...

A Papal legate, on a secret mission to England from Rome, is discovered dead. How did he die? And why? Mycroft Holmes, master of many of the secrets of the realm, calls in his younger brother Sherlock to discover the answer to these questions. When he arrives at the scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes...

The Untime; a mysterious and dangerous state, beyond our powers of conception. In the Paris of the 1890s, Jules Gauthier, a young journalist, enters the Untime with its discoverer, Professor Lamartine. What they find there could be the end of our Universe as we know it. When Lamartine disappears mysteriously,...

The good news: Leo has finally walked out on his wife after years of misery. The bad news: he finds his girlfriend in bed with another man. The good news: he's got £3,000,000 in the bank. The bad news: the bank is in Japan, he has no money to get there, and the money isn't really his anyway. The...

Gerardo, formerly Bishop of the city of Nessuna in medieval Italy, writes his memoirs as he listens to the muezzin's call to prayer in the city of Lamakan. Exiled by his boyhood friend, Pietro, who has risen to power in Nessuna, Gerardo knows details of too many things that Pietro would sooner remain...

On his return from the Untime, as described in the previous volume, Jules Gauthier marries the orphaned Agathe Lamartine, whose father died horribly in that mysterious state between time and space. But… is Agathe really orphaned? An outbreak of nightmares in Paris, leading to madness of the dreamers,...

Before John Watson had his fateful encounter with the eccentric beater of corpses at Barts, there was a consulting detective by the name of Sherlock Holmes, who had already built up a practice and a reputation that extended to Scotland Yard. However much he may have felt lost without his Boswell later...

The dispatch-box continues to disgorge treasure. Here are four adventures of Sherlock Holmes, mentioned by Watson, but told here for the first time: The Abernetty Horror – blood and gore in a peacxeful Welsh village The Finsbury House – nothing is what it seems, and Holmes and Watson nearly...

The American Dream ain’t what it used to be, as Major Henry Gillette Powers, USMC, discovers on his return from Afghanistan. His sister and her family have disappeared, and their home has been repossessed, along with half the houses in the neighborhood. With the help of Jeanine, who has also lost...