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Holmes entangled

by Gordon McAlpine

Private investigatorsFictionFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralHolmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fictionDoyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930, fiction
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"From the Edgar-nominated author of Hammett Unwritten and Woman with a Blue Pencil comes a startling meta-fiction tale told in the voice of Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1920s' London, Cambridge, and Paris, Holmes's final adventure leads him through labyrinths of crime and espionage in a mortally dangerous inquiry into the unseen nature of existence itself. Sherlock Holmes, now in his seventies, retired from investigations and peaceably disguised as a professor at Cambridge, is shaken when a modestly successful author in his late-sixties named Arthur Conan Doyle calls upon him at the university. This Conan Doyle, notable for historical adventure stories, science fiction, and a three-volume history of the Boer War (but no detective tales), somehow knows of the false professor's true identity and pleads for investigative assistance. Someone is trying to kill Conan Doyle. Who? Why? Good questions, but what intrigues Holmes most is how the "middling scribbler" ascertained Holmes's identity in the first place, despite the detective's perfect disguise. Holmes takes the case. There is danger every step of the way. Great powers want the investigation quashed. But with the assistance of Dr. Watson's widow, Holmes persists, exploring seances, the esoterica of Edgar Allan Poe, the revolutionary new science of quantum mechanics, and his own long-denied sense of loss and solitude. Ultimately, even Sherlock Holmes is unprepared for what the evidence suggests"--

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Private investigatorsFictionFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralHolmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fictionDoyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930, fictionPrivate investigators, fiction

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Setting

England

Author

Gordon McAlpine

Pages

191

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Start Publishing LLC

ISBN

9781633882089

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