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Abstract: London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend - until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.

Abstract: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiance Mina of the Count's supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina's friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy's, Seward, and Lucy's fiance Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina's life. Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker's Dracula is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.

Abstract: The twenty-first instalment in Anne Perry's acclaimed Thomas Pitt series

Abstract: The nineteenth novel in Anne Perry's highly acclaimed mystery series featuring Thomas Pitt

Abstract: Following the death of a young prostitute, a strange badge is found beneath her body. The insignia proclaims it to be an emblem of the Hellfire Club, and on the back is engraved the name of Finlay FitzJames. So begins Superintendent Pitt's curious association with the wealthy FitzJames family

Abstract: London, 1890, and Superintendent Thomas Pitt is investigating the most horrific killings since the Whitechapel Murders. A headless body is found in a boat on the Serpentine, then another is discovered propped up in a nearby bandstand. Is there a madman on the rampage? For once, Charlotte Pitt is too preoccupied to help her husband. Domestic life has never been so busy. Her brother-in-law is standing for Parliament, her mother is unsuitably fond of an young actor and, most important, the Pitts are to move house. Yet in the panic of packing fittings and furniture, it is Charlotte who happens upon a startling solution. Fourteenth book in the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series