Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Murders

A fiendish seasonal mystery in which Holmes and Watson must discover the connections between a series of Christmas-themed murders in London.For fans of Gareth Rubin’s Holmes and Moriarty. In the week before Christmas, Dr Watson convinces an unwilling Sherlock Holmes to accompany him into the centre of London to go shopping for a gift for Mrs Hudson.Unwilling to trail around lots of smaller establishments among the seasonal crowds, Holmes insists they leave early and go to only a single shop - Whitley’s, the capital’s first ‘department’ store, in which everything and anything can be found - ‘from a pin to an elephant’, in the words of its founder, William Whitley. What they did not expect to find, however, is the body suspended in the branches of the large decorated Christmas tree just inside the entrance way.It looks as though the dead man has fallen from the high workman’s gantry standing to one side and broken his neck.Only Holmes hears a steady, slow drip and notices the pool of blo