Sherlock Holmes and the Whitby Vampire: A Gothic Victorian Mystery of Blood, Fear and Deception (The Carlos T Dawring Victorian Murder Mysteries)

When a series of blood-drained bodies is found among the cliffs, lanes and churchyards of Whitby, the town whispers an old terror has returned. A foreign nobleman is blamed, a black dog is seen in the fog, and frightened witnesses swear that a vampire walks after dark.

Sherlock Holmes is less interested in legends than in wounds that do not fit, sightings that arrive too conveniently, and a pattern of fear carefully fed to the public. With Dr Watson at his side, he follows the trail through Gothic ruins, private clinics, sinister folklore, hidden routes and a conspiracy built upon superstition.

As hysteria spreads and another victim is taken, Holmes must uncover who is using Whitby’s vampire myth as a mask for murder. The truth behind the blood is colder than any curse, and the real monster is not the creature people fear in the shadows.

A dark Victorian mystery of deception, terror, human cruelty and old legends turned into weapons against the innocent, the grieving and the very afraid.