John Payne
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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 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 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 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 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 4
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English
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When Lestrade corners the notorious Fenwick and his crew in an abandoned building, all she finds are innocent, mild-mannered citizens. Confounded, she calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate. He quickly deduces that the citizens are indeed the culprits… and that Moriarty has forced a renowned plastic surgeon to use his DNA Washer device to completely alter their appearances! Using the device on himself, a disguised Holmes foils Moriarty's evil...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 20
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English
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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 17
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English
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Victor Fatherly is a bio-engineer whose work on a new blood regenerator could revolutionize organ transplant work - if his competitor Michael Wooten doesn't beat him to it. Now, someone has stolen both men's inventions. But how? The safe housing Victor's invention is protected by a biometric security system; only Victor's thumbprint and DNA signature can open it. Similarly, Michael's system uses his eye's unique retinal scan as the key. Holmes...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 2
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English
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When New London is caught in the grip of a massive crime wave, Holmes uses his eyes and intellect to deduce that the heat of the criminal activity lies in the city's long abandoned underground. With the guidance of the street-wise Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes, Watson and Lestrade plunge into the shadowy depths to foil the plot, but lose Watson when their wild escape ends with a train crash into the Thames. Only then does Holmes realize that the...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 19
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English
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The fastest space ship, Silver Blaze, has gone missing just after winning the first round in the International Space Grand Prix. Sherlock investigates and discovers that the competing team is not responsible…and neither is the owner who some thought might be trying to scam the insurance company. Instead, the ship's pilot stole the ship to use as a getaway vehicle; using a clever hologram of a frightening warship, he then robs the shuttle carrying...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 12
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English
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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 1
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English
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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 5
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Someone has robbed the supposedly impenetrable safe room at Genie Tech. In the locked room – with no window or other way out - Sherlock Holmes discovers tiny scales which prove to belong to a mysterious unknown species of snake. Is this the work of the eminent herpetologist Grimsby Roylott who is trying desperately to keep the old London Zoo afloat? Or, as Watson suspects, is it the work of Forest Chapman, the proprietor of the spooky Mythological...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 26
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Spending a weekend in the country to attend the wedding of kindly old Professor Presbury might have been relaxing for Lestrade…if it weren't for the strange goings on and screams in the night! On the eve of the nuptials, the bride is awakened by a monstrous gorilla with a face like that of the Professor's, and suspicious hairs are found outside her window. Is the Professor's daughter trying to frighten the bride into confessing she's after the...
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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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English
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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...
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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 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 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...