Paisley MacDonald

Every morning, nine wet footprints appear outside a locked door in a quiet London passage. They begin at the threshold. They end at the threshold. They lead nowhere—and they return from nowhere.When Alistair Pembroke—a rising barrister haunted by a...

What crime needs no words to destroy a man?Three envelopes arrive at a respectable London address—each unmarked, each empty, each bearing only an impression stamped in grey ash: a griffin and a broken key. No threats are written. No demands are made....

What happens when the dead refuse to stay buried?London, 1890. A man is pulled from the Thames, identified by three witnesses, and buried in a pauper’s grave in Southwark. The paperwork is signed. The mourning has begun. The case is closed.Two days...

A locked room. A mechanical bird. A murder built with the patience of a craftsman and the precision of a clock.In this original Sherlock Holmes mystery, Dr. Watson recounts one of the most disturbing cases of his long partnership with the great...

A bell rings at a quarter past two in the morning. Three nights running. From a room that has been locked for ten years.When Mrs. Honoria Vexley arrives at 221B Baker Street in the bitter December of 1894, she brings a riddle that defies every...

What vanishes from a locked room when no lock has been broken?London, 1894. A black calfskin ledger—containing secrets that could topple some of the City’s most powerful men—has disappeared from the sealed strong-room of Blackthorn and Hale, one of...

What if the dead could accuse the living—not with words, but with a face?London, winter of 1890. A wax figure appears in the Albion Gallery—an exhibit billed as an imaginary gentleman of distinguished bearing. But within days, whispers ripple through...

What if the most terrifying visitor is not a stranger, but the past itself?In the frozen January of 1895, a composed but shaken woman arrives at Baker Street with an unsettling account: on three consecutive nights, an unknown gentleman called upon her...

A locked room. A shattered violin. A vanished woman. And a secret that has been buried for twenty years.When the celebrated violinist Madame Celestine Carrington disappears from a locked dressing room on the eve of her most important London...

A locked conservatory. A dead collector. And a single word traced in the mist on glass: WAIT.When Miss Evelyn Wrexham arrives at 221B Baker Street with chlorophyll stains on her gloves and a mystery she cannot solve alone, Sherlock Holmes is drawn...

A dead man in a locked room. A machine that should not be moving. And a secret hidden inside a wooden star.London, January 1893. When Clara Hale arrives at 221B Baker Street with frost on her cloak and fear in her eyes, she brings Sherlock Holmes a...