ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Carlos T. Dawring is a South Wales author of FULL-LENGTH Victorian mysteries, writing for readers who still enjoy the pleasure of settling into a substantial case.
After a lifetime filled with ideas and stories, KDP has finally given him the opportunity to share his books with the public. In the past, publishing was financially beyond his reach. Now, all those ideas can finally become real books.
His Sherlock Holmes investigations combine atmosphere, deduction, hidden motives and buried secrets with mysteries given room to properly unfold. Fog-bound streets, isolated houses, strange inheritances, locked rooms, old documents and carefully concealed crimes all form part of a growing world of Victorian mystery.
Carlos writes with a particular love of structure, evidence and hidden meaning. His stories invite the reader to follow the clues alongside Holmes and Watson, question every explanation and suspect everyone until reason finally exposes the truth.
For readers who miss the old-fashioned mystery novel: a complete investigation, a genuine puzzle and a case worth getting lost in.
THE
SHERLOCK HOLMES
COLLECTION
Step into a Substantial World of Victorian Mystery
Full-length Holmesian novels
Traditional Victorian investigations written for readers who enjoy a complete case, not a hurried glimpse.
Fog-bound streets, old houses, buried secrets, murder, suspicion and sharp deduction, with room for every mystery to unfold.
A growing collection of atmospheric Sherlock Holmes mysteries for readers who want a richer, deeper, more rewarding read.
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When an anonymous letter accuses Dr John Watson of causing a soldier’s death at Maiwand fifteen years earlier, the past reaches into Baker Street with terrifying precision.
Captain Philip Selwyn died after Watson administered morphia. Now someone claims to possess proof that Watson made a fatal medical error & demands that he steal a sealed Afghan packet from Sherlock Holmes in exchange for silence.
Before Watson can uncover the truth, former medical orderly Joseph Dacre arrives at Baker Street carrying dangerous memories of Maiwand. Hours later, he is dead, poisoned by morphia from a sealed prescription bottle & Watson’s own repaired syringe is found among his effects.
Arrested, disgraced & haunted by the possibility that two deaths may be connected to his own hands, Watson must trust Holmes to separate fact from accusation.
But the evidence is genuine. The bottle was sealed, the syringe is Watson’s, and somewhere behind the truth stands a respected physician with everything to lose. To save Watson, Holmes must solve a murder begun fifteen years ago.
Sherlock Holmes
and the
Heir of Ashcombe Hall
A Victorian Mystery of Murder, Buried Secrets, Poison, Silence and a False Heir Claiming Inheritance
BOOK 1 ~ When Dr Matthew Eldren summons Henry Holmes to Ashcombe Hall, the death of governess Clara Whitcombe is presented as a tragic fall. Yet the house is too clean, the servants too frightened, and the Ashcombe family too eager to bury every question beneath propriety. Henry discovers hints of a hidden marriage, a disputed bloodline, and a child’s lesson book altered to protect an inheritance, but the truth slips beyond his reach.
Thirty years later, Sherlock Holmes receives his father’s unfinished papers and finds that the old case has not died with Clara. At Ashcombe Hall, pride has hardened into silence, witnesses have aged into fear, and the rightful heir may have been erased from history itself.
With Dr Watson beside him, Holmes must untangle forged records, family lies and a murder concealed beneath respectability. Solving it, Holmes must finish the case Henry began and force Ashcombe Hall to remember. But some secrets are guarded not by darkness alone, but by those who believe a great name is worth any sin.
Sherlock Holmes
and the
Study at Blackmere
A Victorian Mystery of Hidden Rooms, Buried Names and Murder
BOOK 2 ~ When Dr Watson receives a troubling letter from his cousin Eleanor Harrington, companion to the fragile Helen Ashdown at Blackmere Hall, he brings the matter at once to Sherlock Holmes. Sir Charles Ashdown is living in terror of a strange phrase that has begun to haunt the old house: “The house remembers what the law refused.”
At Blackmere, Holmes finds a family ruled by silence, a forbidden east corridor, a ruined chapel, an old legal wrong & a household divided by fear. Before Sir Charles can complete a written acknowledgement of the truth, he is found murdered inside his locked study. The door is locked from within, the windows are bolted, the key is inside & a vital page from his confession has vanished.
As Holmes follows the trail through damaged parish records, hidden passages, missing documents & servant memory, the mystery turns from supernatural dread to something far colder: a family lie preserved across generations.
To solve the murder, Holmes must prove not only who killed Sir Charles, but why one missing page was worth killing for.
Sherlock Holmes
and the
Ravenshaw Trinity
A Case of Deception, Blood & Divided Guilt
Book 3 ~ Sir Claudius Ravenshaw is found poisoned beside his locked desk, a secret Government memorandum missing & his private secretary fleeing with a duplicate key.
To Inspector Lestrade, the case appears complete, to Sherlock Holmes, it appears arranged.
At Ravenshaw Hall, every member of the household has something to conceal. Julian Ravenshaw faces ruin beneath his father’s new will. Miles has threatened violence. Eleanor carried the dead man’s final draught. The family solicitor has altered legal papers, while a former governess guards the truth about an innocent man disgraced twenty years earlier.
As Holmes separates theft from murder, genuine foreign intrigue becomes entangled with manufactured evidence. A second poisoning proves that the danger remains inside the house, yet no single suspect appears capable of controlling every part of the crime.
When a series of blood-drained bodies is found among the cliffs, lanes and churchyards of Whitby, the town whispers an old terror has returned. A foreign nobleman is blamed, a black dog is seen in the fog, and frightened witnesses swear that a vampire walks after dark.
Sherlock Holmes is less interested in legends than in wounds that do not fit, sightings that arrive too conveniently, and a pattern of fear carefully fed to the public. With Dr Watson at his side, he follows the trail through Gothic ruins, private clinics, sinister folklore, hidden routes and a conspiracy built upon superstition.
As hysteria spreads and another victim is taken, Holmes must uncover who is using Whitby’s vampire myth as a mask for murder. The truth behind the blood is colder than any curse, and the real monster is not the creature people fear in the shadows.
A dark Victorian mystery of deception, terror, human cruelty and old legends turned into weapons against the innocent, the grieving and the very afraid.
On a fog-bound Christmas Eve, Sherlock Holmes is visited not by a client, but by a woman from an old case. Eleanor Harrow does not deny that her husband Samuel was guilty of forgery. Instead, she accuses Holmes of something harder to answer: he found the truth, but never looked at the family left broken behind it.
Shaken by guilt, Holmes considers abandoning detection altogether. But that night, three solemn spirits come to Baker Street. The first shows him the past, where truth saved some lives and wounded others. The second reveals the living present, where friendship, poverty and consequence still breathe. The third shows a future shaped by Holmes’s absence, and then a darker world in which Sherlock Holmes was never born.
A serious Victorian Christmas mystery of remorse, justice and mercy, this is Sherlock Holmes facing the one case he cannot solve without changing himself.
When a terrified night-watchman claims he heard a mummified Egyptian hand tap from inside its locked glass case, Sherlock Holmes dismisses superstition, but not the details. Soon, an ancient artefact linked to the mysterious Nebet-Khenti becomes the centre of a dark London panic. Scholars die, cursed symbols appear beside bodies, papyri seem to bleed, and the public whispers that an Egyptian judgement has followed stolen relics home.
But Holmes sees human design beneath the horror. With Dr Watson at his side, he enters a world of museum politics, forged translations, private collectors, séance parlours, smuggled antiquities and old crimes buried beneath imperial respectability.
As the curse grows more theatrical and more deadly, Holmes must uncover why one mummified hand matters enough to kill for. What did the dead preserve? What did the living deny? And who has turned ancient belief into murder?
A dark, Gothic Sherlock Holmes mystery of Egyptology, deception, guilt and revenge.
London has always been a city of wealth, poverty & hidden movement, but when Sir William Harcourt is found dead in his Mayfair study, the murder appears staged with a woman’s bloodied thimble, a gentleman’s hat & a locked-room impossibility. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers that the death is only the first move in a larger design.
Across the capital, strange objects are left beside bodies: a boot, an iron, a dog, a wheelbarrow. Each symbol points to property, debt, ruined lives & an old conspiracy that once destroyed an innocent man. As Holmes & Watson follow the trail through Mayfair, Whitechapel, railway yards & fog-bound streets, they realise London itself has become the board & every murder is a calculated advance.
Behind the killings stands a shadowy figure known as the Black Coachman, moving through the city like an unseen player. To stop the game, Holmes must uncover who truly owns London’s streets before the final square is reached.
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