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New York Times Bestseller
"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote…Don't miss it." —
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March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.
Some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.
Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. His name is Jack.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introductory
- 1. Sherlock Holmes in Residence
- 2. An Invitation to Investigate
- 3. The Business at South Crescent
- 4. Concerning Bunthorne
- 5. The Lord of Life
- 6. The Second Murder
- 7. Assaulted
- 8. Mama, the Crab, and Others
- 9. Sullivan
- 10. The Man with Brown Eyes
- 11. Theories and Charges
- 12. The Parsee and Porkpie Lane
- 13. The Missing Policeman
- 14. The West End Horror
- 15. Jack Point
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Praise for THE WEST END HORROR
- Also by Nicholas Meyer
- About the Book
- Copyright