David Ian Davies
Flagged down by Inspector LaStrade of Scotland yard as they walk through the icy winter streets, Holmes and Watson are transported to the home of the aristocratic Lady Whitebread. Once there, she tells them her traditional holiday centerpiece has vanished in the midst of the Christmas dinner -- right under the very noses of her guests. The decoration? An enormous work of the jeweler's art centered upon a three inch round emerald called The Christmas
...1898: Holmes and Watson encounter American newspaper boss, John Moxton, whose yellow press, The Clarion, is beginning to threaten and undermine political stability in Victorian England. At the same time, public figures are humiliated and then murdered. But each incident has a parallel in Alice in Wonderland, each time The Clarion is conveniently on hand. So what is Moxton’s master plan and can Holmes and Watson unravel it in time? And what is
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