Craig Stephen Copland

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2014
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • A Study with Scarlett

    A new Sherlock Holmes Mystery. A strikingly beautiful woman enters 221B Baker Street. It is Scarlett O'Hara and she seeks the help of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, in finding her missing husband, Rhett Butler. As Holmes and Watson set out on ...

  • A Scandal in Fordlandia

    A Scandal in Fordlandia As a devoted Sherlockian you will most certainly be familiar with the wonderful story "A Scandal in Bohemia." History now repeats itself and Holmes and Watson find themselves in Toronto in 2014, and their client a modern versi...

  • The Bald-Headed Trust

    Lovers of Sherlock Holmes mysteries will enjoy this new story, written today but as faithful as possible to the characters, heroes, villains, language, and setting of the original Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson insists on taking his friend on a short va...

  • The Hudson Valley Mystery

    Pray tell, are you addicted to Sherlock Holmes stories? Read the entire Canon? But you need MORE SHERLOCK? You came to the singularly correct place. Sixty new “canonical” Sherlock Holmes stories; each one a tribute to one of the original stories ...

  • Studying Scarlet

    Pray tell, are you addicted to Sherlock Holmes stories? Read the entire Canon? But you need MORE SHERLOCK? You came to the singularly correct place. Sixty new “canonical” Sherlock Holmes stories; each one a tribute to one of the original stories ...

  • A Case of Identity Theft

    A CASE OF IDENTITY THEFT. A not overly attractive young woman seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes. Her husband is missing. Only a few days later the missing husband arrives, breathless, at 221B Baker Street. His wife is missing. Someone has gone to a l...

  • The Mystery of the Five Oranges

    THE MYSTERY OF THE FIVE ORANGES: On a miserable rainy evening a desperate father enters 221B Baker Street. His daughter has been kidnapped and spirited off the North America. The evil network who have taken her have spies everywhere. If he goes to Sc...

  • The Sign of the Third

    Fifteen hundred years ago the courageous Princess Hemamali smuggled the sacred tooth of the Buddha into Ceylon. Since that time it has never left the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, where it has been guarded and worshiped by the faithful. Now, for the ...

  • The Man Who Was Twisted But Hip

    THE MAN WHO WAS TWISTED BUT HIP: It is 1897 and France is torn apart by The Dreyfus Affair. Westminster needs help from Sherlock Holmes to make sure that the evil tide of anti-Semitism that has engulfed France will not spread. A young officer in the ...



  • A Sandal from East Anglia

    A SANDAL FROM EAST ANGLIA: To Sherlock Holmes she will always be The Nun. But is this brilliant young woman carrying on a secret double life " a life far too sensual for a member of a holy order? She is helping archeological excavations at the ruin...

  • The Adventure of the Blue Belt Buckle

    The Adventure of the Blue Belt Buckle: A young street urchin, one of the Baker Street Irregulars, discovers a man’s belt and buckle under a bush in Hyde Park. He brings it to Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a reward. The buckle is unique and stunning, ...

  • The Adventure of the Spectred Bat

    A beautiful young woman, just weeks away from giving birth, arrives at Baker Street in the middle of the night. Her sister was attacked by a bat and died and now it is attacking her. Could it be a vampire sent by the local band of Gypsies? Sherlock H...

  • The Adventure of the Engineer's Mom

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S MOM: A brilliant young Cambridge University engineer is carrying out secret research for the Admiralty. It will lead to the building of the world’s most powerful battleship, The Dreadnaught. His adventuress mother is...

  • The Adventure of the Notable Bachelorette

    A blue-blooded snobbish English lord come to 221B Baker Street. His much younger wife, a beautiful, independent American, has vanished and he knows she has been kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes has to find her. Three days later a terrible crime take place ...

  • The Notable Bachelorette

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOTABLE BACHELORETTE. A blue-blooded snobbish English lord come to 221B Baker Street. His much younger wife, a beautiful, independent American, has vanished and he knows she has been kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes has to find her.T...

  • The Adventure of the Beryl Anarchists

    A deeply distressed banker enters 221B Baker St. His safe has been robbed and he is certain that his motorcycle-riding sons have betrayed him. Highly incriminating and embarrassing records of the financial and personal affairs of England's nobility a...

  • Sherlock Holmes Never Dies

    Return to Baker Street, where the worlds most famous detective encounters six new cases that require his expert touch. Londons super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with longsuffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again....

  • The Adventure of the Coiffured Bitches

    A beautiful young woman will soon inherit an lot of money. She disappears. Her little brother is convinced that she has become a zombie, living and not living in the graveyard of the ruined old church. Another young woman - flirtatious, independent, ...

  • The Silver Horse, Braised

    The greatest horse race of the century, with the best five-year-olds of England running against the best of America, will take place in a week at Epsom Downs. Millions have been bet on the winners. Owners, jockeys, grooms, and gamblers from across En...



  • The Box of Cards

    This is the LARGE PRINT edition of The Box of cards, specially published for seniors and those who have difficulty reading smaller print. Two teenagers, a brother and a sister from a strict religious family disappear. The parents are alarmed but Scot...

  • A Scarlet Trail of Murder

    A SCARLET TRAIL OF MURDER. At ten o’clock on Sunday morning, the twenty-second of October, 1882, in an abandoned house in the West Bottom of Kansas City, just a stone’s throw from the stockyards, a fellow named Jasper Harrison did not wake up. Hi...

  • The Brand of the Flying Four

    This case all began one quiet evening-very quiet; bordering on boring-while we were sitting by the hearth in our rooms in Kansas City. A few weeks later, a murder, perhaps the most gruesome I had ever witnessed in all my born days, took place in Denv...

  • The Yellow Farce

    THE YELLOW FARCE. It is the spring of 1906. Sherlock Holmes is sent by his brother, Mycroft, to Japan. The war between Russia and Japan is raging. Alliances between countries in these years before World War I are fragile and any misstep could plunge ...

  • The Three Rhodes Not Taken

    Oxford University is famous throughout the world for its splendid architecture, lovely manicured lawns and gardens, and passionate pursuit of research, teaching and learning. But it turns out to be at the center of a case involving fraud, theft, trea...

  • A Most Grave Ritual

    A MOST GRAVE RITUAL. In 1649, King Charles I escaped from the palace in which he was being held prisoner and made a desperate run for Southampton, hoping to reach safety on the Continent. He never made it and was returned to face trial and execution....

  • The Stock Market Murders

    THE STOCK MARKET MURDERS. A young man's friend has gone missing. Holmes and Watson go with him to Birmingham to help look for him. What they find is horrifying. Two more bodies of young men turn up in London. All of the victims are tied to Cambridge ...

  • The Glorious Yacht

    On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place " the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life. On board that ship was Sherlock Holmes’s frien...

  • A Scandal in Trumplandia

    LARGE PRINT. A SCANDAL IN TRUMPLANDIA. Was Sherlock Holmes inadvertently responsible for the results of the election on November 8, 2016? This light-hearted parody (Note: NOT a New Sherlock Holmes mystery) reveals the secret meeting held between Sher...

  • The Spy Gate Liars

    THE SPY GATE LIARS. Dr. Watson receives an urgent telegram telling him that Sherlock Holmes in lying in a hotel room in eastern France and near death. He immediately rushes to aid his dear friend, only to find that what began as a doctor’s house ca...



  • The Cuckold Man

    THE CUCKOLD MAN. Colonel James Barclay needs the help of Sherlock Holmes. Hos exceptionally beautiful, but much younger, wife has disappeared and foul play is suspected. Has she been kidnapped and held for ransom? Or is she in the clutches of a devia...

  • The Impatient Dissidents

    THE IMPATIENT DISSIDENTS. The Czar of Russia was assassinated in March 1881. That summer an attempt was made to murder his daughter while she was riding through Kensington Gardens with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. A Russian Count has been foun...

  • The Grecian, Earned

    THE GRECIAN, EARNED. You are a fan of Sherlock Holmes, right? You have read and even re-read the entire Canon. But you need more Sherlock. And what you need is the real Sherlock -- set in Victorian/Edwardian London, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Wats...

  • The Naval Knaves

    THE NAVAL KNAVES. On September 15, 1894, an anarchist attempted to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. He failed, but the attempt led Sherlock Holmes into an intricate web of spies, foreign naval officers, and a beautiful princess. Once again, suspicion ...

  • The Binomial Asteroid Problem

    THE BINOMIAL ASTEROID PROBLEM. The deadly final encounter between Professor Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes took place at Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891. But when was their first encounter? When did Holmes first come to know that there was a evil geniu...

  • The Mystery of 222 Baker Street

    On the day after Queen Victoria died, the body of a Scotland Yard inspector is found in a locked room in 222 Baker Street, right across the road from the home of Sherlock Holmes. There is no clue as to how he died, but for certain, he was murdered. T...

  • The Sign of the Tooth

    THE SIGN OF THE TOOTH: (NOTE: This is a revised edition of an earlier New Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Sign of the Third. If you have already read that story, please do not waste your money getting this one but move on to one you have not read. Happy...

  • The Adventure of Charlotte Europa Golderton

    THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLOTTE EUROPA GOLDERTON. In the original Sherlock Holmes story about Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London,” was shot and sent to his just reward. But now another diabolical scheme of blackmail has emerged cente...

  • The Adventure of the Norwood Rembrandt

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD REMBRANDT. A young man is facing execution in two weeks and appeals to Sherlock Holmes, his last hope, to try to save him from the gallows. Five years ago he was accused and convicted of the greatest theft of masterpiece ...

  • The Mystery of 222 Baker St.

    THE MYSTERY OF 222 BAKER STREET. On the day after Queen Victoria died, the body of a Scotland Yard inspector is found in a locked room in 222 Baker Street, right across the road from the home of Sherlock Holmes. There is no clue as to how he died, bu...



  • The Horror of the Bastard's Villa

    Need MORE Sherlock? You are at the right place.THE HORROR OF THE BASTARD'S VILLA. A Scottish clergyman and his faithful border collie visit 221B and tell a tale of a ghostly Banshee on the Isle of Skye. After the specter appeared, two people died. Ho...

  • The Dancer from the Dance

    THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE. In 1909 the entire world of dance changed forever when Les Ballets Russes, under the brilliant impresario, Serge Diaghilev, departed St. Petersburg and opened in Paris. They also made annual visits to the West End in London...

  • Sherlock Holmes Never Dies -- Collection Seven

    You love the stories of Sherlock Holmes. You have read the entire Canon, maybe more than once. But you still want more Sherlock -- the real Victorian Sherlock. Now there is a new series of Sherlock Holmes mystery novellas, each one of them a tribute ...

  • The Solitary Bicycle Thief

    THE SOLITARY BICYCLE THIEF. Remember Violet Smith, the beautiful young woman who Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rescued from a forced marriage, as recorded in The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist? Ever wonder what happened to her and her true husban...

  • Sherlockian Limericks

  • The Inequality of Mercy

    THE INEQUALITY OF MERCY. What happened after Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson pardoned Captain Jack Croker for killing Sir Eustace at the Abbey Grange? Have you imagined that he sailed the seven seas for a year and then returned to his beautiful, belov...

  • The Adventure of the Second Entente

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND ENTENTE. It is June 1908 and the body of a young nobleman is found in Fitzrovia. Scotland Yard yet again ask for the assistance of Sherlock Holmes. The young baron had a cousin, a woman from California, his only relative a...

  • The Adventure of the Devilish Footnote

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVILISH FOOTNOTE. The wealthy owner/publisher of England's most prestigious literary journal holds a soirée for the writers, critics and intelligentsia of London (modelled on the Bloomsbury Group) and is poisoned by one of ...

  • The Adventure of Mata Hari's Harem

    The German ambassador, madam, said Sherlock Holmes, is reputed to be brilliant and very difficult.My dear, Mr. Holmes, she said. He is a man. Like all men when they are drunk and in the throes of ecstasy, he will be easy.I must warn you, he has a rep...

  • The Adventure of Homo Creepius Maximus

    Schools for rich girls attract creepy men.Two hundred girls from wealthy families boarded at St. Elizabeth's College for Girls in Oxford.On 23 October, 1903, Miss Edlyn Ferenci, an upper sixth form student, returned to her room in the senior dormitor...



  • The Adventure of the Sanguisuge of Surrey

    When a man's beautiful, beloved daughter dies,A part of his soul dies with her.When that daughter dies at the hands of a murderer,That man's mind is filled with a burning fire for justice, for revenge.When the local police shrug off the murder as a r...

  • The Adventure of the Bewildered Student

    Someone murdered a university student.They found him lying in his bed. Dead. His head smashed by a cricket bat.The local police arrest another student, claiming it was a case of jealous rage over the affections of a beautiful girl.The arrested studen...

  • The Abergavenny Murder

    A twelve-year-old boy witnessed a murder.But nobody believed him.Except Sherlock Holmes.Holmes quickly deduces that the boy was intricately connected to the victim and knows more than he is letting on.Eventually, Holmes solves the case in his mind .....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Craig Stephen Copland has published 52 books.

Craig Stephen Copland does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Abergavenny Murder, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Craig Stephen Copland, A Study with Scarlett, was published in May 2014.

No. Craig Stephen Copland does not write books in series.
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