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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1981
  • Latest Book:
    October 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Alfred Swain

Jekyll Alias Hyde (Dec-1988)
The Ripper's Apprentice (Aug-1989)

Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service

The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Jun-1998)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt: And Other Tales (Mar-2002)
The Execution of Sherlock Holmes (Jan-2007)
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective (Jun-2009)
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly (Jan-2011)
The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes (Aug-2012)
Death on a Pale Horse (Mar-2013)

Book List in Order: 25 titles








  • In the slum alleys of Lambeth in 1891 a sinister silk-hatted figure lurks in the shadows - but trade is there for the taking and a girl must make a living. Now, one after another, the girls who work the Waterloo Road wake in the morning to feel the s...




  • Con man "Pretty Boy" Johnny McIver and his dancer girlfriend Solitaire's plans for a major robbery go awry when they unwittingly cross crime boss Sonny Tarrant, and soon McIver is on the run from Tarrant's thugs...



  • Wedding fact with fiction, a new novel continues the career of the master English detective and his sidekick, Watson, beyond the legendary 1903 retirement to solve a series of true crimes, from the grisly murder of a prostitute to the alleged bigamy ...



  • The famous tin box in the attic of the house at 221B Baker Street -- perhaps the best known address in crime literature -- is again unlocked by the Great Detective’s loyal companion, Dr. Watson, in this collection of six original tales contrived by...



  • "Thomas is the all-time best at Sherlockian pastiche."―Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

    Drugged, manacled, condemned to a dank cell in the depths of London's infamous Newgate prison, the world's greatest literary detective awaits execution by...






  • Five stunning novellas featuring the Great Detective, by the acknowledged master of Sherlockian pastiche.

    In these five tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston...



  • "Have you ever seen a ghost, Mr. Holmes?" asks Victoria Temple, and Sherlock Holmes, at the height of his powers in 1898, must face a new challenge, one that plunges the great detective into the realm of the supernatural. Miss Temple has been found g...



  • "Donald Thomas is the all-time best at Sherlockian pastiche." -- Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine"Have you ever seen a ghost, Mr. Holmes?“ asks Victoria Temple, and Sherlock Holmes, at the height of his powers in 1898, must face a new challenge, one ...



  • Why I wrote this book. I discovered there are three primary core aspects or attributes of our religions that are right in our face, that we are mostly conscience about and certainly aware of but which are constantly overshadowed in our day to day li...



  • A stunning new omnibus to fulfill the appetite of every fan of Sherlock Holmes -- three volumes of mystery and deduction from a master of the form. In these sixteen tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his po...



  • It is 1936 - the year of the Abdication Crisis - and gangland capo Sonny Tarrant's money-laundering operation is being threatened by three small-time thieves thinking big. Would-be gangsters Sandboy, McGouran and Gillis have carried out a violent ra...



  • In a momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas s latest Sherlock Holmes adventure pits the Great Detective and his faithful biographer, Dr. John Watson, against an international conspiracy led by a disgraced English officer. Colonel Hunter M...



  • When John Posthumous Lerici, decadent poet, black magician and unacknowledged son of Lord Byron, is murdered, the family hire Inspector Swain. His investigations lead Swain through the familiar hunting grounds of Victorian Brighton and Pimlico. But ...



  • The sensational events of the summer of 1907 - the disappearance of the Ascot Gold Cup from the Royal Enclosure, and the even more astonishing theft of the Irish Crown Jewels from a locked and guarded strongroom in Dublin Castle - remain mysterious b...



  • Two petrol bombs thrown on the Cakewalk promenade, a sports reporter and his bike rammed off a cliff, a policeman thrown through a plate-glass display window in the city centre and left to die. All this is 'a quiet summer weekend' in the dockland cit...






  • When Karl Rainer Andor came to Berlin for the last time it was sacrifice, not victory, that was uppermost in his mind. He intended to use the plutonium bomb he had elaborately planted to effect the reunification of Germany, but he didn't expect to su...



  • Wednesday 5 January is a black day in the police calendar of dockland Canton and its Art Deco resort of Ocean Beach. It dawns in freezing mist and icy roads. It ends with a vanload of drugs hijacked, two policemen dead, and gunfire on the motorway. D...



  • The Man had only once followed her home in the evening, after she had been to a Blue Moon concert with Claire and Viv. Still, Elaine was not frightened. It amused her to have an admirer who was far too timid to approach. On that evening, she had been...



  • Relating Sherlock Holmes's part in real-life crimes of the day, Donald Thomas brings the Great Detective to life once again in six narratives that display Holmes at his most determined, inventive and downright devious. What were Holmes's views on Dr...



  • Baxter McPherson is a child prodigy. He is able to use 99 percent of his brain capacity unlike normal people who only use 8 to 10 percent. He is anything but normal and he is the latest born into his family's history of exceptional children. Baxter j...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donald Thomas has published 25 books.

Donald Thomas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Baxter's Butterflies, was published in October 2015.

The first book by Donald Thomas, Captain Wunder, was published in July 1981.

Yes. Donald Thomas has 2 series.