Sherlock Holmes is dead. His lifelong companion and
biographer, Dr Watson, pens the last adventure of the talented detective, a
sensational and sinister tale, unopened for one hundred years for fear of its
effect of society.
In the winter of 1890, at 221B Baker Street, Holmes and
Watson are sat down for tea when an anxious gentleman arrives unexpectedly with
tales of being stalked by a foreign man with a gruesome scar on his right
cheek.
The infamous detective agrees to take on the case and set of
strange and seemingly unconnected events unfold.
The New Sherlock Holmes delivers all the elements expected of a novel set in the Victorian era to a modern readership, and remains true to the
original dynamic of Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation.
The House of Silk twists across the misty winter-stricken
streets of London, to train robber gangs of Boston, travelling freak shows, and
the opium dens of the Victorian slums.
Anthony Horowitz delivers
in providing the traditional plot intrigues, Sherlock’s powers of deduction, and the famous
crime detective duo. Yet he offers a refreshingly modern moral perspective on
Victorian poverty and societal failures alongside an in-depth characterisation
of Watson which gives an insight and reflection on his career.
The House of Silk marks the first time the Conan Doyle
Estate has allowed a new Sherlock Holmes novel to be written and I believe it
will succeed in exposing the tales of Britain’s favourite detective to a modern
readership. The novel is brilliantly researched and would be the perfect
companion to coop up to in these cold December evenings we are having.
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