Gods of War

James Lovegrove

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781781165430
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781165447
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

An East Wind It is 1913, and Dr Watson is visiting Sherlock Holmes at his retirement cottage near Eastbourne when tragedy strikes: the body of a young man, Patrick Mallinson, is found under the cliffs of Beachy Head. The man's father, a wealthy businessman, engages Holmes to prove that his son committed suicide, the result of a failed love affair with an older woman. Yet the woman in question insists that there is more to Patrick's death. She has seen mysterious symbols drawn on his body, and fears that he was under the influence of a malevolent cult. When an attempt is made on Watson's life, it seems that she may be proved right. The threat of war hangs over England, and there is no telling what sinister forces are at work. Praise for The Stuff of Nightmares "[A] tremendously accomplished thriller which leaves the reader in no doubt that they are in the hands of a confident and skilful craftsman." STARBURST "Dramatic, gripping, exciting and respectful to its source material, I thoroughly enjoyed every surprise and twist as the story unfolded." FANTASY BOOK REVIEW "This is delicious stuff, marrying the standard notions of Holmesiana with the kind of imagination and we expect from Lovegrove." CRIMETIME

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Also by James Lovegrove
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Chapter One: The Case of the Purloined Pearls
• Chapter Two: An Inside and Outside Job
• Chapter Three: Shades in the Forest of the Mind
• Chapter Four: Reptilio the Human Cobra
• Chapter Five: The Prisoners
• Chapter Six: Truth Against Myth
• Chapter Seven: A Grahame-White Type VII
• Chapter Eight: The Body on the Shore
• Chapter Nine: Inspector George Tasker
• Chapter Ten: The Manifold Properties of Mud
• Chapter Eleven: Craig Mallinson, Esquire
• Chapter Twelve: At Tripp’s Costumiers
• Chapter Thirteen: The Enchanted Summer
• Chapter Fourteen: A World of Sordid Ends and Human Blunder
• Chapter Fifteen: A Living Lockpick
• Chapter Sixteen: The Gamekeeper
• Chapter Seventeen: Settleholm Manor
• Chapter Eighteen: The Dreams of Icarus
• Chapter Nineteen: Firepots
• Chapter Twenty: A Murmuration of Starlings
• Chapter Twenty-One: One Brush with Death after Another
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton Rolled into One
• Chapter Twenty-Three: The Tell-tale Bruise
• Chapter Twenty-Four: The Follower in the Sea Fret
• Chapter Twenty-Five: To the Manor Borne
• Chapter Twenty-Six: A Stiff Upper Lip and a Belly Full of British Pluck
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Young Bucks, Old Crocks
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hound of the Mallinsons
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Fallen Angel
• Chapter Thirty: Cliffhanger
• Chapter Thirty-One: Safe Room
• Chapter Thirty-Two: The Colonial and Overseas Club
• Chapter Thirty-Three: A Concatenation of Deaths
• Chapter Thirty-Four: The Panopticon Periscope
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Flying Lessons
• Chapter Thirty-Six: Under Siege
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: Human Sacrifices
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Long Man
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: Flight in a Thunderbolt
• Chapter Forty: Dea Ex Machina
• Chapter Forty-One: A Fusion of the Noblest Instincts and the Basest
• Chapter Forty-Two: The Heat of the Moment
• Chapter Forty-Three: Brands of Justice
• Afterword
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
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