- 304 pages
- English
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust
About this book
The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin.It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes.The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a civil servant recently returned from India, was living in almost complete seclusion, and that his last act was to scrawl a mysterious message on a scrap of paper. The riddles pile up as aged big game hunter Allan Quatermain is spotted at the scene of the crime when Holmes and Watson investigate. The famous man of mind and the legendary man of action will make an unlikely team in a case of corruption, revenge, and what can only be described as magic…
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Chapter One: A Fraudulent Client and a Familiar One
- Chapter Two: Inigo Niemand’s Last Supper
- Chapter Three: The Shadower
- Chapter Four: A Distaff Bluebeard?
- Chapter Five: Macumazahn
- Chapter Six: Hunting Hunter Quatermain
- Chapter Seven: Daring Dan
- Chapter Eight: The Peregrinations of Black Jack Corcoran
- Chapter Nine: Encounters in the East End
- Chapter Ten: Into the Hive
- Chapter Eleven: The King of Shoreditch
- Chapter Twelve: The Man in the Chair
- Chapter Thirteen: The Choice of Target
- Chapter Fourteen: V.R
- Chapter Fifteen: Gone to Ground
- Chapter Sixteen: The Siren Call of Excitement and Derring-Do
- Chapter Seventeen: Silasville
- Chapter Eighteen: The Skeleton Key that Unlocks Many a Door
- Chapter Nineteen: Bat Amongst the Pigeons
- Chapter Twenty: Another Kind of Jungle, Another Kind of Wildlife
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Devil’s Dust
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Under Fire
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Romulus Minus Remus
- Chapter Twenty-Four: The Angler’s Tale
- Chapter Twenty-Five: A Vision of Highwaymen
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Journey to Epping Forest
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Eyes
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Shepherded by Wolves
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Thing-That-Should-Never-Have-Been-Born
- Chapter Thirty: Impasse No. 1
- Chapter Thirty-One: Impasse No. 2
- Chapter Thirty-Two: The Magic of Science and the Science of Magic
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
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