Who is Jacob Marley? I put his character as the main topic in my book to one specific question which is... Who is Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas", commonly known as "A Christmas Carol", a short story written by Charles Dickens and first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. As a child into adulthood, I often had read and viewed several movies and television adaptations of Ebenezer Scrooge's life at Christmas time. Each and every version put to print or in the media fields explains the creator's own interpretation of how a stingy and odious business man living in the early 19th Century London was haunted by first his ghostly partner Jacob Marley and then by three Apparitions of Christmas to show and mend the errors of his greedy ways.

Publicly shunned and ostracized by the "Firm" and the London Times for unethical legal reasons beyond their control, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are forced into the private sector to which may very well be their last case together. On a cold and rainy October Sunday afternoon at the end of the 19th Century-our two fine private detectives are formally solicited by a leading British scientist Dr. Charles Landers on investigating and recovering stolen top secret government plans which could bring an end to the British Empire. Throughout their investigation and without any formal assistance from Scotland Yard and the Home Office-Holmes and Watson will make great leads in the case and meet up with a key witness of such feminine appeal and finally discover the true sole sinister mastermind and chief architect from their past who's behind this world shattering heist.

A young American industrialist woman living the privileged life of royal luxury is trapped within a loveless March/November pre-arranged marriage and now wants out even if she has to commit MURDER to do it...But the real question is how to do it and get away with it? And so, this suspense thriller tells the deadly tale of one desperate woman who wants her freedom from matrimonial bondage and who is willing to get whatever she deserves...