To a steampunk London that might have been comes Lord Cerberus, a dog like no other. The Dogs of STEAM pursue him across unknown dimensions to present-day Chula Vista, coming to the attention of the Three Dog Detective Agency. At peril - multiple Earths, diverging timelines, and existence itself.
Whenever a new tomb emerges from the sands or a papyrus scroll is translated, Egypt's history is rewritten, becoming more enigmatic and mysterious. Old, comfortable interpretations are swept away, supplanted by strange realities and new cosmic visions. In these essays is revealed an Egypt that is familiar, yet alien, as relatable as it is unfathomable.
From their fortified lair in the Haunted House, the Feral Gang terrorize and brutalize the pets and strays of a Chula Vista neighborhood. With all hope gone, their victims turn to the Three Dog Detective Agency, the only force standing between the Feral Gang and victory. They dare not fail.
In the title story, Sherlock Holmes and the Time Traveler battle cannibalistic Morlocks from the future. In others, invading Martians find a formidable foe in Holmes, a 1950s Sherlock Holmes actor is sacked by the BBC, and a dog must channel his "inner Sherlock" to save a life.
When Sunny the Golden Retriever comes between a Hawk and its victim the Three Dog Detective Agency is catapulted into a battle with a rapacious gang known as the Birds of Prey. Should they fail, no one will be safe from these outlaw winged predators.
1882: From dark dimensions, long imprisoned gods invade the dreams of worshipers on Mars, Earth and Venus. Shadows rise. An ancient evil batters the gates of reality. A handful of adventurers stand against encroaching chaos. If they fall, so will the British Empire. And the Solar System won't be far behind.
An ancient evil invades Chula Vista. Two K-9 officers, framed when they get close to the truth, must turn to their sometimes rivals, the Three Dog Detective Agency, for help. What's at stake, however, is not the fate of two K-9s, but the fate of a city.
Magic, mystery and adventure abound in these tales chosen from more than four decades of writing. Among the characters you will meet are a swordswoman trying to live by the old ways as the world is transformed by a new metal-iron; a young girl taken from the lands across the sea who is always turning homeward; and a man who wanders the Cemetery Earth beneath a dying sun.
Beyond Mercury, an unsuspected planet hides a devastating weapon built by MEDUSA, most powerful criminal organization of the Victorian Age. Unless British agents can stop a madman, the Nineteenth Century will end in fire and blood, the Solar System gripped by the iron fist of tyranny.
Beyond Baker Street is a shadowy realm where cultists worship Earth's past masters, the gods of the Cthulhu Mythos. Sherlock Holmes has seen beyond reality's veneer and applied his keen analytical mind to the nightmare logic that drives ordinary men insane. When followers of evil try to free their monstrous masters, they find Sherlock Holmes ready to confront them.
Two men walk onto a darkened bridge in a small village after leaving the Mad Badger pub. There is a splash in the river below, and only one man returns to the car park. The river should have carried the body to the deeps of the sea. It didn't. DCI Ravyn and DS Stark must solve a murder with few clues and witnesses who have secrets to keep.
As American law enforcement agents closed in on crime lord Antonio Carrillo, known as 'El Jefe, ' an unearthly plage struck Mexico. El Jefe retreated to his fortress in the wilderness, confident that thick walls would repel both dangers
Everyone in Knight's Crossing shuns the abandoned Stryker farmstead, even the village's most powerful magicians. Thirty years earlier, young Dale Stryker butchered his family, including his much-feared grandfather, Wizard Ezekiel; then he vanished, but not quite forever. When a lost boy propels the cold case back into the news, DCI Arthur Ravyn and DS Leo Stark of the Hammershire Constabulary find themselves pitted against not only a murderer who has long hid in shadow, but villagers wary of strangers and for whom magic, both dark and light, is a part of everyday life, and death.
