Death by Gaslight

A Professor Moriarty Novel

Michael Kurland

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781783293285
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783293292
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

"Kurland has made Moriarty more interesting than Doyle ever made Holmes." Isaac Asimov London, 1887, and a vicious killer stalks the gas-lit streets of the capital. With a particular penchant for the blue-blooded aristocracy, he is leaving lordly corpses behind locked doors, and high society is in uproar. Scotland Yard call in the great Sherlock Holmes to hunt down the murderer, but even he is unable to bring the monster to justice. Several more noble throats are slit before the Yard turn to the one man who might be able to solve the bloody crimes: the Napoleon of Crime, Professor James Moriarty, ably assisted by American journalist Benjamin Barker, and the redoubtable Miss Cecily Perrine. However, Moriarty has his own unique methods of fighting evil, and he and Sherlock Holmes make for the most reluctant of allies... PRAISE FOR THE MORIARTY NOVELS "A deliciously complex and abundantly rewarding novel... Uncommon are the pleasures such writing affords." Publishers Weekly "From whatever celestial outpost he now occupies, Conan Doyle must be beaming his approval." West Coast Review of Books "Sherlock Holmes' most clever adversary... He's a fine sleuth and makes for a compelling protagonist. Splendid stuff." Booklist

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Also by Michael Kurland
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Epigraph
• Prologue
• One: Night and Fog
• Two: The Morning
• Three: 221B Baker Street
• Four: Miss Cecily Perrine
• Five: Scotland Yard
• Six: The Fox
• Seven: Interlude: The Wind
• Eight: The Hounds
• Nine: The Chase
• Ten: Drawing the Cover
• Eleven: The Gentlemen’s Gentlemen
• Twelve: Interlude: Not to Be
• Thirteen: The Problem
• Fourteen: The Art of Detection
• Fifteen: A Modest Proposal
• Sixteen: The Game
• Seventeen: The Candle
• Eighteen: Richard Plantagenet
• Nineteen: The Great Train Robbery
• Twenty: Always Darkest
• Twenty-One: Inside Out
• Twenty-Two: Tete-A-Tete
• Twenty-Three: The Possible
• Twenty-Four: Interlude: The Evening
• Twenty-Five: Agony
• Twenty-Six: Interlude: Ecstasy
• Twenty-Seven: Rescue
• Twenty-Eight: The Gift
• About the Author
• Also Available from Titan Books