The Selected Cases of Doctor Watson

Publisher: MX Publishing
Published Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Category: Detective Fiction
ISBN: 978-1804243220

Watson is in the vaults of his bank Cox & Co. looking for a gift given to him by his wife Mary, shortly after they met. While he is there, his eye inevitably falls upon his old despatch box and he spends the following hours looking through the adventures he shared with Sherlock Holmes.

The Adventure of the Spanish Drums

Publisher: Irregular Special Press
Published Date: October 2010
Format: Paperback
Category: Crime
Illustrations: B&W Photographs
ISBN: 1901091430

Doctor Watson narrates the hitherto unrecorded case concerning the theft of the Border Regiment's most prize possession, The Arroyo Drums. His tale takes us from Kandahar to Carlisle as a former army colleague informs him of the theft and asks that he and his friend Sherlock Holmes travel north to investigate the crime.

The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong Vol I

Publisher: MX Publishing
Published Date: October 2017
Format: Paperback / Kindle / Audio book
Category: Crime
ISBN: 1787052154

Cornelius Armstrong is a Detective Inspector in  Edwardian Carlisle. In the first of these two adventures, he investigates the brutal murder of a young immigrant on the corner of West Walls and Dean Tait's Lane in November 1903. In doing so he uncovers a far wider web of underworld crime.

The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong Vol II

Publisher: MX Publishing
Published Date: November 2017
Format: Paperback / Kindle / Audio book
Category: Crime
ISBN: 9781787052185

The Bells and Plate Fix is set against Cumberland's biggest horse races, The Carlisle Racing Bells and The Cumberland Plate.

When a bookie's clerk is found face down in the River Eden, Inspector Armstrong believes there is more to his death than meets the eye.

The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong Vol III

Publisher: MX Publishing
Published Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback / Kindle / Audio book
Category: Crime
ISBN: 9781787052215

An unknown American tourist, who will one day achieve greatness, visits Carlisle to research his family history. His arrival coincides with Inspector Armstrong's investigating of a macabre series of grave-robbing incidents in the city. The detective's enquiries inadvertently lead him into investigating a case that had lain dormant for over seventy years.

The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong Vol IV

Publisher: MX Publishing
Published Date: 2020
Format: Paperback / Kindle / Audio book
Category: Detective Fiction
ISBN:9781 78705 6428

As the country mourns the passing of Queen Victoria, Inspector Cornelius Armstrong finds himself wrestling with a series of complex investigations that threaten to overwhelm the City Police Force.