<div>This collection of short mysteries by the international-bestselling author of Dust and Shadow &ldquo;belongs on the top shelf with the very best of Doyle&rsquo;s&rdquo; (Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution). Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquo;s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, Edgar Award&ndash;finalist Lyndsay Faye has masterfully woven these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction&mdash;from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1892. The best of Faye&rsquo;s Sherlockian tales, including two new works, are brought together in a collection that spans the character&rsquo;s career, from self-taught upstart to lauded detective, both before and after he faked his own death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. In &ldquo;The Lowther Park Mystery,&rdquo; the unsociable Holmes is forced to attend a garden party at the request of his politician brother and improvises a bit of theater to foil a conspiracy against the government. &ldquo;The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel&rdquo; brings Holmes&rsquo;s attention to the murder of a jewel thief in the middle of an underground railway passage. With Holmes and Watson encountering all manner of ungrateful relatives, phony psychologists, wronged wives, outright villains, and even a peculiar species of deadly red leech, The Whole Art of Detection is a must-read for any fan of historical crime fiction. &ldquo;If Lyndsay Faye&rsquo;s byline weren&rsquo;t on the cover, readers might deduce that the Sherlock Holmes mysteries in The Whole Art of Detection actually came from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.&rdquo; &mdash;David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram</div>

The Whole Art of Detection

<div>A librarian is tormented by a lethal volume of black magic. When A. Davenport Lomax&rsquo;s young daughter asks him whether spirits and faeries are real, the Edwardian librarian just pats the little darling on the head. But when a desperate man emerges from the winding passages of the library muttering about demonology, he gets Lomax&rsquo;s attention. Theodore Grange is a member of the Brotherhood of Solomon, a secret society dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of black magic, and he believes he has found a book written by the Queen of Sheba herself. Said to hold the answers to one thousand demonic mysteries, the tome will poison any man who dares read it. The next time Lomax sees him, Grange is at death&rsquo;s door. To uncover the truth about The Gospel of Sheba, Lomax agrees to accompany Grange to a meeting of the brotherhood, where he will encounter darkness that threatens his life, his family, and his soul. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.</div>

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The Gospel of Sheba

<div>&ldquo;This twisty whodunit from Starrett, best known for his writings about Sherlock Holmes, stars an eccentric amateur sleuth.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly When a New York banker is discovered dead from an apparent morphine overdose in a Chicago hotel, the circumstances surrounding his untimely end are suspicious to say the least. The dead man had switched rooms the night before with a stranger he met and drank with in the hotel bar. And before that, he&rsquo;d registered under a fake name at the hotel, told his drinking companion a fake story about his visit to the Windy City, and seemingly made no effort to contact the actress, performing in a local show, to whom he was married. All of which is more than enough to raise eyebrows among those who discovered the body. Enter theatre critic and amateur sleuth Riley Blackwood, a friend of the hotel&rsquo;s owner, who endeavors to untangle this puzzling tale as discreetly as possible. But when another detective working the case, whose patron is unknown, is thrown from a yacht deck during a party by an equally unknown assailant, the investigation makes a splash among Chicago society. And then several of the possible suspects skip town, leaving Blackwood struggling to determine their guilt or innocence&#8213;and their whereabouts. Reissued for the first time in over eighty years, The Great Hotel Murder is a devilishly complex whodunnit with a classical aristocratic setting, sure to please Golden Age mystery fans of all stripes. In 1935, the story was adapted for a film of the same name. &ldquo;An ingenious plot with enough complications to keep the reader guessing . . . The Great Hotel Murder makes good reading.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times</div>

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