SHERLOCK HOLMES Good Men Gone Bad - Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson’s Brand New Mysteries: Crime & Detective Case Books, #1

                                                                                                  SHERLOCK HOLMES - GOOD MEN GONE BAD

GOOD MEN GONE BAD A Sherlock Holmes mystery of poison, corruption, and the quiet rhyme that foretells murder.

The deadliest weapon in London isn't a blade or a bullet — it's a deplorable children's rhyme whispered in the alleys of Spitalfields. Holmes hears it first from the street urchins who chant it with innocent delight:

"Good Man Gone Bad… He drank the gin… Then came the sin…"

To Holmes, it is no nursery rhyme. It is a cipher — and a kill list.

When respectable men begin dying in grotesque and inexplicable ways, Holmes and Watson are drawn into a labyrinth of vice stretching from a poisoner's clandestine laboratory to the velvet-draped clubs where London's elite purchase ruin for sport. Each verse of the rhyme hides a name. Each name hides a crime. And each crime points toward a mastermind whose intellect mirrors Holmes's own.

In the fogbound winter of 1895, the stakes turn personal. Watson discovers that the conspiracy's architect — the Professor — keeps a list of men marked for destruction. Holmes fears the truth: Watson's name may already be written on it.

As the body count rises, Holmes races to decode the rhyme before the next "good man" falls. Every clue is on the page, sung aloud from the first chapter. The question is whether the reader can hear the names before Holmes does.

GOOD MEN GONE BAD is a brand-new standalone Sherlock Holmes mystery story — a Victorian whodunit of fair-play clues, sinister laboratories, moral corruption, and the razor-thin line between honour and damnation.

Perfect for readers who love: 

  • Sherlock Holmes pastiche and canonical-style mysteries 

  • Agatha Christie fair-play murder puzzles 

  • Anthony Horowitz (Magpie Murders, Moriarty, The House of Silk) 

  • Dan Brown–style conspiracies and page‑turning twists 

  • Victorian gothic crime fiction, Irene Adler intrigue, and cat‑and‑mouse detective thrillers

A foggy London. A whispered rhyme. A list of doomed men. Holmes can solve it maybe?