Sherlock Holmes

The time machine has returned. Its inventor has not.

London, 1896. Dr. Horace Sloan has made an astonishing claim: he has built a machine capable of traveling through time. At one of his celebrated dinner parties, Dr. Watson witnesses a demonstration that defies explanation. Then Sloan undertakes a journey himself-and returns with a disturbing account of humanity's distant future.

When the inventor disappears again, his battered machine eventually reappears in his laboratory. Sloan is nowhere to be found. Among the damaged instruments and abandoned notes, Sherlock Holmes discovers evidence that transforms a puzzling disappearance into an urgent rescue mission. Somewhere beyond their own century, a man may still be waiting for help.

Reaching him will require an extraordinary company. Captain Nemo brings the engineering genius needed to repair and enlarge the machine. Allan Quatermain offers the instincts and marksmanship of a seasoned hunter. Professor Challenger supplies scientific knowledge matched only by his formidable temperament. With Holmes and Watson, they prepare to cross the centuries in search of the missing inventor.

Their destination is a world where the familiar order of human life has vanished. The gentle Eloi inhabit the sunlit surface, wandering among the remnants of a civilization they no longer understand. Beneath them, the Morlocks move through vast chambers filled with ancient machinery. As the travelers investigate this unsettling future, every discovery raises new questions about what mankind has become-and what dangers await after dark.

Holmes must apply his powers of observation to a world unlike any he has known. Watson must care for his companions far beyond the comforts of his medical practice. And every member of the expedition must depend on the others as their search leads into increasingly hostile territory.

Finding Sloan is only part of their task. They must also survive long enough to bring him home.

Blending Sherlockian deduction, Victorian science fiction, and the dangers of an expedition into the unknown, Sherlock Holmes: Lost in Time brings together some of literature's most memorable adventurers. In this third installment of Dr. Alan E. Perry's Shadows and Steam series, a missing scientist draws Holmes and Watson into a journey that challenges their understanding of civilization, progress, and humanity's future.