The Charlotte Holmes Tredecim - A limited 13 book series. A re-imagining of the Great Detective and his partner as Charlotte Holmes, a brilliant yet erratic polymath, and her companion as Dr Watan, an Indian doctor, as they investigate nefarious activities and conspiracies at the dawn of the 20th century. Yankee Quartet - A Show in Chicago Chicago, USA, 1924 Charlotte is asked by her husband to help The Chicago Trumpet, a once great newspaper, now fallen on hard times. She and Watan clash with Gordy Bennett, the tyrannical Editor, and are drawn into the case of a native American, Cherokee Joe, waiting to be executed. As they investigate, they realise he is innocent and develop an audacious plan to restage the trial, as a stage play, to reveal the true killer. Rehearsals don’t go to plan until Emily and Lola, Watan’s old flame, take charge. Once again Emily's love life complicates matters, when she falls in love with a gangster, Johnny Dapper, however their romance is complicated by the objections of her mother. In India, Becky arrives, accompanied by Jack Straw, a musician of indeterminate pedigree, to inform Branwell she is selling her family’s residence and divorcing him. Events become complicated when she is kidnapped by his former lover, Durga the Dacoit, who demands a rendezvous to settle old scores. It's a race against time, across two continents, to save an innocent man and a not-so innocent wife.