Val Andrews is the most successful of all the writers producing Sherlock Holmes stories in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and the Longacre Vampire takes the reader into an exciting and stimulating journey into the mind of the Baker street Sleuth.

The story revolves around a death that appears to have been caused by a vampire. But surely vampires do not exist. The location of the book centres on the theatrical area of London's West End. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are invited to solve the mystery of this inexplicable death and as always, after a thorough investigation, Holmes is able to apprehend the culprit.