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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 11
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After draining the Sussex County Holocomputer System of every drop of data, a cackling vampire-like creature locks himself inside the vault at London First Bank. Beth corners it and blasts open the vault with ionic canon…only to find nothing there! Byte-sucking fiend or computer generated count? Holmes must call on the Irregulars to help track the alleged vampire to its lair…where Moriarty appears, trapping Holmes and the gang. But Beth foils...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 20
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Holmes and Watson arrive at Lestrade's apartment to find it ablaze and Beth out of control! She attacks them both, leaps off of her balcony, and escapes into the night. What has caused her to go crazy? Holmes receives a mysterious Chinese puzzle box while retracing the path of Beth's most recent investigation into an amateur burglary and, shortly thereafter, he too appears to go mad. But in this case, Holmes is cleverly faking insanity to ferret...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 23
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Holmes' old friend, Victor Trevor, arrives at Baker Street with an urgent – but nonsensical -note his father left him before vanishing. Holmes quickly deduces that the note is in code and deciphers it to read Gloria Scott. But who is she and what is her role in the affair? While Lestrade and Watson look into a recent prison break, Holmes investigates and finds that their cases are connected, involving a convict breakout on a prison shuttle that...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 22
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After hearing the normally happy couple argue passionately behind closed doors, followed by a crash and screams, the maid rushes in to discover Nancy Barclay unconscious and her husband, James, gone. Holmes investigates the strange day Nancy had prior to the fight, while Lestrade looks into James' company. Both roads lead to a bio-engineering experiment that's gone horribly wrong: inventor Victor Morris – persuaded to become the experiment's lone...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 25
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A thief has stolen the rusty and ancient Musgrave Sword from the British Museum, leaving priceless jewels and works of art untouched. It is obvious to Sherlock Holmes that the prized sword must have a worth that is not immediately apparent. At the museum gift shop, the Irregulars purchase a cheap souvenir replica of the sword and find that the riddle that is inscribed on it. When Holmes remembers that the sword was forged from a meteor that fell...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 24
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At the Pomiero Touring Club, there's been an attempted theft of a Napoleon Excelsior. Though the craft wasn't stolen, it was vandalized: the expensive gems that adorn the side were pried off, but not taken. Why not? Holmes investigates to find out that the late inventor, Philippe Napoleon, had manufactured the vehicles to further his quest to discover an unlimited power source, but was driven to an early grave by the pressures of his business and...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 6
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In seclusion at his remote country estate, radical anti-tech group leader Joseph Openshaw blacks out after opening a mysterious envelope containing only a cryptic note and five orange seeds. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers that the pips are poisoned and that Joseph was targeted because he – along with his brother Elias – had invented a cyber nest that could wipe out all the computers they despise forever. Though the two brothers stopped before...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 7
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Alexander Holder catches his own son Arthur stealing the top secret computer chip that the famous Payne computer dynasty family had entrusted him to safeguard. Why would Holder's son betray him? Did Holder's son betray him? In order to save the situation, Holmes must sift through the motives, secrets and misunderstandings of two families: not only those of Arthur, but those of the 10-year-old genius son, Helfand Payne III, and his father, Helfand...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 1
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In the 22nd Century, Inspector Beth Lestrade believes that New London's fool-proof crime control process, called crypnosis, has been sabotaged by the criminal genius Professor James Moriarty…who has been dead for over a century! To prove her theory and catch the crook, Lestrade brings back to life the only man smart enough to have ever defeated Moriarty: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes tracks the villain, finally confronting him in the heart of the computer...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 21
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A troubled young woman appears at Holmes' door with a mysterious letter containing a beautiful ring, a shuttle ticket to the moon, and an urgent message that she has been done a great wrong and must come at once. Holmes agrees to accompany her to the moon and act as her protector. What they discover there is the answer to a 20-year-old mystery involving two quarrelling brothers (one greedy, the other generous), a valuable Copernican gem mine, Miss...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 9
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After a break in at 10 Downing Street, it appears that the thief was only able to steal one of the African dolls from the Prime Minister's collection, and was not able to find the secret safe where Lord Devlin had hidden the top secret security plans. While Lestrade helps Greyson - who must interrupt his meeting with the famous recluse millionaire Lord Bork – to retrieve the precious doll, Holmes and Watson conduct their own investigation. After...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 10
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English
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At the insistence of a memo from Lestrade, the Prime Minister contacts Sherlock Holmes when the top secret virtual reality chip, called the Mazarin Chip, is stolen. But the memo is a forgery: a trap to get the Prime Minister and Holmes to Baker Street where Moriarty then descends upon them, trapping Holmes in a virtual prison and kidnapping the Prime Minister. Holmes must escape his virtual prison and discover where Moriarty really is before he...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 8
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The blinding flashes of disintegration haunt Watson after he witnesses Holmes and Moriarty fall from their rooftop battle into New London's laser wave sanitation grid. Despite his devastation at losing his friend, crime doesn't stop and Lestrade brings Watson to the room of a young hotshot laser tag tournament star who has been frozen solid by a freeze ray. Why? Was it because the hotshot was cheating? Or, did an opponent merely want to take him...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 3
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On the moon, in the domed Galileo City, an old legend appears to be true when three children go missing and eerie howling can be heard echoing throughout the resort. But Sherlock Holmes suspects there is an all too human reason behind this supernatural phenomenon. His sleuthing quickly dispatches the mythical beast for what it is: trickery created by Moriarty to vacate the moon of its tourists so that its powerful defense and life support systems...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 13
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Holmes and Lestrade uncover an elaborate plot which involves red-headed crooks swapping paintings at the National Art Gallery for forgeries…and which employs a crowd of innocent red-headed men to screen their getaway. Who are all these red-heads? The League's employer is none other than Professor Moriarty who is planning to release a chemical (via the forgeries) at a gala to be held that night at the National Art Gallery. By rendering the wealthiest...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 12
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Christmas in New London finds the whole city gone mad for the hot toy to have: the Blue Carbuncle, a troll-like doll that can mimic a real person and appear to communicate. Holmes inadvertently hurts Watson's feelings when he expresses his disgust at the modern world's obsession for machines. But when Beth brings him one of the coveted dolls after recovering it from a mugging, Holmes quickly realizes that this doll is much more sophisticated than...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 14
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At their underground farm, the Cubbitts have had a monumental breakthrough. They have perfected a way to grow vegetables in any temperature and in a nearly airless vacuum – a discovery which should prove a great benefit to the world. But someone wants to use the discovery to further his own agenda and tries to take it using force, leaving the Cubbitts unconscious. With the help of the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes deduces that the stick figure...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 16
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Lestrade's hot pursuit of a suspect is foiled by another police craft appearing out of nowhere. It turns out that the clumsy fellow cop who got in her way is none other than Constable Abner Angel, the new partner Greyson has apparently assigned to her to keep her in line and by the books. Lestrade is furious and resents her partner tagging along after her on her investigations. But Holmes' interest is piqued when Abner pops up at all the crime...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 18
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Lois St. Clair asks Holmes to investigate the disappearance of her husband Neville, a man whose reported - and long unsolved – death was, apparently, a ruse to escape his gambling debts. But this time his vanishing seems genuine and Lois fears for her husband's life - what if his debtors have finally found him? Holmes looks into the matter and discovers that Neville, in fact, has no debts or debtors! Rather, he is a secret agent who had infiltrated...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 15
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Global Intelligence goes to Level Five Global Alert when Mark Trenton discovers that the top secret haloids containing the master security code is missing! The code is so secret that New Scotland Yard cannot be told of the theft. Sherlock Holmes is put on the case and, by noticing the most minute details, soon recovers the disk – then sets a trap to catch the thief. But the case doesn't end with the capture of the thief, because the thief herself...