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A confessed murderer and a missing body lures Isobel Kingston into the night, but she finds far more than she bargains for on the foggy dunes. Ambushed and rendered unconscious, she wakes to find herself at the mercy of brutal men. Desperate, she plays her last card: she threatens her captors with the wrath of Atticus Riot. To her surprise, Riot's very name strikes terror into the men, and Isobel begins to wonder what she really knows about the enigmatic man.

Charles Otterbourne’s New Century company should have been the perfect partner for Professor Alan Carrington’s radical new gramophone. After all, Charles was not only a leading manufacturer, but also a noted philanthropist. But when murder is the result of their meeting, Jack Haldean takes up the case, in a desperate bid to save a man from the gallows. But what led to the crime? The answer is Off the Record...

Cornwall 1906: Jago Carter-Jones, der vermögende Erbe von Allerby House, ist fest entschlossen, eine mittellose, amerikanische Sängerin zu heiraten. Halb Cornwall ist schockiert, so finden sich nur wenige Gäste bei der Hochzeit ein. Nur zwei Stunden nach der Trauung wird Jago tot aufgefunden. Erstochen – seine Frau Selena über ihn gebeugt, die Finger einer Hand um das Messer geklammert. Sie beteuert zwar ihre Unschuld, kann zum Tathergehen aber keine Angaben machen. Es droht ihr die Todesstrafe. Obwohl alles gegen Selena spricht, will Emily Tremaine an deren Schuld nicht glauben.

One day Sherlock Holmes has a prominent visitor. Nikola Tesla, scientist and inventor by trade, is asking for Holmes' assistance to keep him safe. He feels threated and followed. This is initially diagnosed by Watson as paranoia.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in by Inspector Lestrade for a mystery at the Court Theatre involving a prominent actor from the London Shakespeare Society who was found dead on stage after a rehearsal.