Hugh Ashton

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  • Bibliography:
    57 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2009
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 57 titles

  • Beneath Gray Skies

    (US trade-size edition) Beneath Gray Skies tells the story of David Slater, a young conscript in the Army of the Confederacy in the 1920s, as he learns power politics from the inside in the West's last slave-owning nation. He makes friends with a Bri...

  • At the Sharpe End

    When his business card is found in the pocket of a man who has died under the wheels of a train at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Kenneth Sharpe's life takes a turn for the worse. A freelance technology consultant usually has no business with burglary, k...

  • Red Wheels Turning

    British secret agent Brian Finch-Malloy (described by one reviewer as "a 1920s James Bond") was introduced in Beneath Gray Skies, set in an alternate history where the American Civil War never happened. Red Wheels Turning takes place in the same hist...

  • Tales From the Deed Box of John H. Watson MD

    Three previously unknown accounts in the case files of Sherlock Holmes, discovered and transcribed by Hugh Ashton: The Odessa Business, the Case of the Missing Matchbox and The Case of the Cormorant. The stories in this volume are authorized by the C...

  • More From the Deed Box of John H Watson, MD

    Hugh Ashton has been digging deeper in the deed box that originally belonged to Dr Watson, the friend and colleague of the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. He has unearthed three more tales referred to in the original books, but never before rel...

  • More From the Deed Box of John H. Watson MD

    Hugh Ashton has been digging deeper in the deed box that originally belonged to Dr Watson, the friend and colleague of the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. He has unearthed three more tales referred to in the original books, but never before rel...

  • Tales of Old Japanese

    Tales of Old Japanese is a collection of five short stories of the older generation living in contemporary Japan. The author has spent over 20 years living in the country, working as a writer and journalist. Some of his impressions of Japan and of th...

  • Secrets From the Deed Box of John H Watson MD

    The deed box of Dr. Watson, presented to me some time ago by a friend who rescued it from the archives of a London bank, continues to produce treasures. The stories in this collection, which I have entitled Secrets from the Deed Box of John H Watson ...

  • Secrets From the Deed Box of John H Watson, MD



  • The Darlington Substitution

    The deed box of Dr. John Watson, entrusted by him over a century ago to Cox & Co. of Charing Cross, and which made its way late last year to Hugh Ashton in Kamakura, Japan, continues to yield treasure. The box proved to have a false bottom, under whi...

  • The Trepoff Murder

    Mentioned by Dr. Watson in the Scandal in Bohemia, the story of the Trepoff murders now comes to light, discovered by the author in a deed box once owned by Sherlock Holmes' faithful chronicler. A Russian dignitary dies in London, and Holmes sets of...

  • The Deed Box of John H. Watson MD: A Collection of the Untold Tales of Sherlock Holmes

    Long thought lost, the box containing the untold tales of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, deposited in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross so long ago, has recently come to light. It was presented to Hugh Ashton of Kamakura, Japan, the maid...

  • Notes from the Dispatch Box of John H Watson, MD

    Another discovery from the vaults of Cox and Co., the old London bank which had forwarded the Deed Box of John H Watson to the author last year. The Dispatch Box contains all manner of illuminating documents about Mssrs. Holmes and Watson. Of particu...

  • Further Notes from the Dispatch Box of John H Watson MD

    The second box ("the dispatch-box") to be discovered in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross has been the source of even more discoveries concerning the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. This collection includes a Foreword from consulting She...

  • Further Notes From the Dispatch Box of John H Watson, MD

    The second box ("the dispatch-box") to be discovered in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross has been the source of even more discoveries concerning the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. This collection includes a F...

  • The Death of Cardinal Tosca

    “Ashton seems to have a knack for hitting a very convincingly canonical mark, making his stories some of the most consistently plausible I've found. The Death of Cardinal Tosca may well be my favorite of those stories so far. The atmosphere feels w...

  • The Reigate Poisoning Case

    In the account of the adventure that I have edited and entitled The Reigate Poisoning Case, published by Inknbeans Press in the collection Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson MD, there was no mention of any character named Mlle. Carere, nor...

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Missing Necklace

    Miss Leticia Rabbit leaves her gold necklace on the grass outside her house one evening. When she gets up in the morning, it is gone! To help her get it back, she asks Sherlock Ferret, who lives with his well-whiskered friend Watson Mouse MD (a Docto...

  • The Death of Cardina Tosca



  • Without My Boswell

    "I am lost without my Boswell," declares Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia". Indeed, the interplay between the solid ex-Army doctor, and the more mercurial purveyor of "ineffable twaddle" forms a large part of the appeal of the adventures whic...

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Multiplying Masterpieces

    Sherlock Ferret and his well-whiskered friend Watson Mouse M.D. visit the Museum, where they look at many paintings, including the famous Ferret Before a Mirror, by Pablo Pigasso. Sherlock discovers that, though it is meant to be an old picture, the ...

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Poisoned Pond

    When Mrs. Fieldmouse visits Sherlock Ferret and his friend Watson Mouse M.D. and tells them that her twelve children have all fallen sick, Sherlock has to find out what has been going on. Together with Doctor Solomon Sloth, he discovers the cause of ...

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Ferret

    In this book are the first three adventures of Sherlock Ferret, the World's Cutest Detective, who lives in rooms under Mrs. Hudson's bakery. Together with the help of his friend Watson Mouse, and his colleague Inspector Lestrade, who is a rhinoceros ...

  • The Last Notes from the Dispatch Box of John H Watson, MD

    Found at the bottom of a dispatch box once belonging to John H Watson, MD, are notes of cases which, until now, had never been read. Notes that reveal the details of The Russian Bear, The Hand of Glory and the Missing Spoons....

  • The Untime

    On his return from the Untime, described in the previous book in this series, Jules Gauthier, 19th century Parisian journalist, marries Agathe Lamertine, daughter of Professor Lamartine, the original discoverer of this mysterious state beyond time an...

  • Leo's Luck

    Rock 'n' roll, financial crime, paranormal doings, Tokyo, and some romance with a twist. Are you feeling lucky today, Leo? Let Pig, Scuzz, Duck and Chick answer that. And then there's Nick and Bobby, guitarists with the Killer Rabbits. Leo's Luck has...

  • Balance of Powers

    Major Henry Powers, USMC Afghanistan vet, meets Jeanine. Like Henry's sister, Jeanine has lost her house to the system that sold her a crooked mortgage. Together, the pair travel in search of the banksters, and a trail of corpses shows where they've ...

  • The Dispatch Box of John H. Watson MD

    The dispatch-box of Doctor John H. Watson, the faithful companion and biographer of Sherlock Holmes, was the second such box to be sent to Hugh Ashton, who has edited and commented on the adventures in this volume. With two exceptions, these stori...

  • 1894

    1894 - the year that Sherlock Holmes returned to London, after the Great Hiatus that followed the plunge into the Reichenbach Falls. Doctor Watson, though astounded at his friend's reappearance, nonetheless retained his composure enough to record the...



  • Sherlock Ferret and the Phantom Photographer

    Sherlock Ferret and Watson Mouse, MD (Doctor of Mouseology) are on the case again, this time searching for the photographer taking pictures and making threats against Mr. Montague Mole and family. Finding the photographer is easy enough, but there is...

  • The Adventure of the Lichfield Murder

    Every good city deserves a good murder ... and Lichfield is no exception. When Henry Taylor of Lichfield comes to 221B Baker Street with the news that his young wife has been murdered, apparently by his son from his first marriage, Sherlock Holmes...

  • Tales from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D.

    Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes, very much in the style of the original stories, by a writer who has been acclaimed as the reincarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    The Odessa Business introduces a new member of the Holmes clan, as Sherlo...

  • The Adventure of Vanaprastha

    Sherlock Holmes is called to investigate the death of Colonel Cardew, who has been savagely tortured to death in a locked room. The mystery seems insoluble, but Sherlock Holmes discovers the solution, which has its roots thousands of miles a...

  • Angels Unawares

    Gerardo, formerly Bishop of the city of Nessuna in medieval Italy, writes his memoirs as he listens to the muezzin's call to prayer in the city of Lamakan. Exiled by his boyhood friend, Pietro, who has risen to power in Nessuna, Gerardo knows deta...

  • Notes on Some Singular Cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes

    Five new Sherlock Holmes adventures, four of which are mentioned in the Canon, but untold by Watson. Detect with Holmes in The Adventure of the Broken Door (mentioned briefly in The Norwood Builder). Thrill to the lure of the mysterious Orient...

  • The Persian Dagger

    Hugh Ashton, known for his re-creation of Sherlock Holmes, here attempts the resurrection of another classic famous sleuth – G.K.Chesteron's Father Brown. Here, Ashton and Lowe unveil a shocking crime where the little priest sees into men's hea...

  • The Untime Revisited

    On his return from the Untime, as described in the previous volume, Jules Gauthier marries the orphaned Agathe Lamartine, whose father died horribly in that mysterious state between time and space. But… is Agathe really orphaned? An outbreak...

  • The Adventure of the Trepoff Murder

    The investigation by Sherlock Holmes of the murder of Admiral Trepoff, a Russian diplomat, takes him to Odessa, where he must match his wits against two opposing factions of the Okhrana â€" the feared Tsarist secret police. He swiftly discovers wheel...

  • More from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D.

    Hugh Ashton has been digging deeper in the deed box that originally belonged to Dr Watson, the friend and colleague of the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. He has unearthed three more tales referred to in the original books, but never before rel...



  • Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson M.D.

    Another discovery from the vaults of Cox and Co., the old London bank which had forwarded the Deed Box of John H Watson to the author last year. The Dispatch Box contains all manner of illuminating documents about Messrs. Holmes and Watson. Of pa...

  • Secrets from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D.

    The deed box of Dr. Watson, presented to me some time ago by a friend who rescued it from the archives of a London bank, continues to produce treasures. The stories in this collection, which I have entitled Secrets from the Deed Box of John H Watson ...

  • Further Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson MD

    The dispatch-box continues to disgorge treasure. Here are four adventures of Sherlock Holmes, mentioned by Watson, but told here for the first time:The Abernetty Horror – blood and gore in a peacxeful Welsh villageThe Finsbury House – not...

  • First Contact

    Aliens are coming to this world. But why? And what is their ultimate aim? Will our first contact with an alien civilisation be like this? Please note that this is fiction and not a discussion of UFOs, etc....

  • The Last Notes From the Dispatch-box of John H. Watson M.D.

    The first of these, "The Case of the Russian Bear", involves the British Government, as represented by Mycroft Holmes. The circumstances surrounding it are mentioned in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", where Holmes mentions to Watson th...

  • Mr. Sherlock Holmes - Notes on Some Singular Cases

    The boxes once belonging to Doctor Watson containing notes related to cases and adventures of his friend, Sherlock Holmes, are still not empty. Here we find five such adventures, four of which are mentioned in the original collections published th...

  • The Untime & The Untime Revisited

    The Untime is a state beyond space and time, discovered by Professor Rémy Lamartine in the 1890s. His daughter Agathe, and her beloved Jules Gauthier, a reporter on a Paris magazine, become concerned when Lamartine goes missing.

    Inside the ...

  • Further Notes from the Dispatch-Box of John H. Watson M.D.

    The second box ("the dispatch-box") to be discovered in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross has been the source of even more discoveries concerning the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. Included in this volume are four tales, all referenc...

  • The Adventure of the Bloody Steps

    Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from a vicar's wife in Staffordshire, telling him that she has seen the ghost of a young woman who was raped and murdered some sixty years previously. The body was carried up a flight of steps from the canal where...

  • Unknown Quantities

    Eleven stories in a darker mood from Hugh Ashton, the acclaimed author of the Deed Box and Dispatch-box of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Here he explores the theme of the unknown that lurks behind our everyday world, waiting for its chance to escape an...



  • Mapp at Fifty

    Elizabeth Mapp-Flint of Tilling is approaching her fiftieth birthday, and plans a party to celebrate the event. However, as so often happens in Tilling, things don't go entirely according to plan, as Major Benjy, her husband, over-refreshes himself a...

  • Mapp's Return

    Since the disaster that was her fiftieth birthday party, Elizabeth Mapp-Flint has been avoiding Tilling society. But just as she decides to re-enter the round of bridge parties and dainty teas, an unexpected visitor to Mallards throws her plans for a...

  • La Lucia

    Mrs Emmeline Lucas, known to all as “la Lucia”, is the undisputed social and cultural leader of the quiet, but refined country village of Riseholme. Together with her husband, and her devoted courtier Georgie Pillson, she leads her subjec...

  • A Tilling New Year

    Elizabeth Mapp-Flint seeks to regain her status as the leader of Tilling society by holding a New Year's Eve party to which Lucia brings two unexpected and not entirely welcome guests, causing embarrassment, if not chaos. Elizabeth redoubles her soci...

  • On the Other Side of the Sky

    Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a group of learned men in the English Midlands, the Lunar Society, works to bring science and reason to the world. In America, the colonists are starting to break away from Britain in the War of Independence...

  • The Tilling Smugglers

    The much-loved Mapp and Lucia novels of E.F.Benson are sadly too few in number. The Tilling Smugglers is the fifth in Hugh Ashton's series which have satisfied the wishes of Mapp and Lucia fans around the world for more adventures of the famous pair....

  • Adventures from Watson's Third Box

    Doctor John Watson tantalisingly informed us, in The Problem of Thor Bridge, that a box full of unpublished adventures of Sherlock Holmes had been left in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross. However, what Watson neglected to tell us was tha...

  • Sherlock Ferret and the Phantom Photagrapher

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Hugh Ashton has published 57 books.

Hugh Ashton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Adventures from Watson's Third Box, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Hugh Ashton, Beneath Gray Skies, was published in May 2009.

No. Hugh Ashton does not write books in series.
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