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    A Criminal Carol
    A Criminal Carol
    A Criminal Carol
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    A Criminal Carol

    By Claire Daines

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    Christmas Eve, 1890. Thanks to the tireless pursuit of Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty’s criminal empire stands on a knife edge. Still, three ghostly visitors may yet convince the Napoleon of Crime that his destiny lies in another direction…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMX Publishing
    Release dateJun 29, 2016
    ISBN9781780929606
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      A Criminal Carol - Claire Daines

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      For Whom The Bell Tolls

      Christmas Eve, 1890.

      Professor James Moriarty seldom visibly lost his temper, but the report he had just received from the Hotel Cosmopolitan seemed an excellent reason to make an exception. Still, morale within the Firm was important, particularly at this time of year; thus he took care to allow the nervous underling to leave his office before slowly crumpling the report into the smallest wad he could manage, picturing himself crushing a certain treacherous agent’s windpipe. James Ryder was going to wish he had never been born.

      The Countess of Morcar would never have suspected that her treasured blue carbuncle had been stolen if the maid hadn’t acted too early, forcing Ryder to carry out the theft before the replica was ready. And then the damned fool had hidden the stone inside a goose, of all things! It was enough to drive a man to despair, it really was... and most galling of all, Holmes’s meddling had made it impossible for Moriarty to salvage the operation without openly revealing his hand in the affair. The boy had foiled his plans yet again, and he most likely wasn’t even aware of it!

      Frustration safely vented for the moment, Moriarty began to penitently smooth the crumpled sheets back out, although he was still extremely angry - not least because he was well aware of where most of the blame could be laid: himself. Holmes had not appeared to be any kind of threat to the Firm when the detective first became aware of its existence,

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