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Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows: 1 - The Book Bundle. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. See the complete The Cthulhu Casebooks series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Yet how has he ended up in London, without his wits? And when the man is taken from Bedlam by forces beyond normal mortal comprehension, it becomes clear that there is far more to the case than one disturbed Bostonian.It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. by James Lovegrove includes books Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities, and The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils. The detectives discover that the inmate was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River to capture the semi-mythical shoggoth.

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