Peppered with colourful characters and period detail, the tales in Trackbed Tales are cleverly set around a single location: a preserved branch line in rural England. Here, the reader will meet unexpected ghosts, cars with unique non-optional extras, a cat with a strong sense of the uncanny and evil, and a model that precisely reflects reality, among many other skilfully constructed takes of the ethereal.

In one of his most disturbing cases yet, Sherlock Holmes is called to the prestigious Albany in Piccadilly, the famously discreet residence for notable and wealthy bachelors, to investigate the disappearance of resident Ethby Sands and his valet. When nothing appears untoward, Holmes and Watson depart to investigate a murder in Norfolk. Holmes is supremely confident in his ability to solve the crime, but when a second murder takes place, just as grisly as the first, and it becomes clear that the missing man may be connected to the atrocities, a far more sinister web of intrigue begins to emerge that will test the great detective to the very limits of his powers.In his latest new case for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, N. M. Scott once again takes his readers on a gripping journey through Victorian England, from the West End theatres to the chilly Norfolk Broads, taking in the famous Albany, the Royal Geographical Society, exotic explorations of the tropics and the...