Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors

by James Lovegrove, Dennis Kleinman (Read by)

Overview

From the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon comes another beautifully presented seasonal mystery.

1889. The First Terror.
At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch’s curse from four hundred years earlier?

1890. The Second Terror.
A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts?

1894. The Third Terror.
A body is discovered at a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal, as the evidence suggests?

These three linked crimes test Sherlock Holmes’s deductive powers, and his skepticism about the supernatural, to the limit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798200737444
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	01/11/2022
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He has been shortlisted for many awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Scribe Award. He won the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Language Short Story in 2011, and the Dragon Award in 2020 for Firefly: The Ghost Machine. He has written many acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, including Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon. As well as writing books, he also reviews fiction for the Financial Times.

Dennis Kleinman has been narrating audiobooks since 2013 and has at least forty titles to his credit. His career began with a biography of a British general, Sir David Fraser, and then transitioned into a series of period romance audiobooks, which opened up his creative approaches and choices to the characters that he brought to life. His body of work includes drama and mysteries, coupled with fan fiction and adventure. Adding to his resume is a three-part audiobook series covering espionage across Eastern Europe, in the Birth of an Assassin series, as well as the in-depth exploration of a family's heritage in Out of The Shoebox.

Dennis worked with Douglass Davies on his novel Steinburg-a work about international political intrigue, which allowed Dennis the artistic freedom to explore his own European origins and early family history. Working with Ed Renehan of New Street Nautical Audio, Dennis has narrated half a dozen nautical themed audiobooks, including Desperate Voyage, the account of Donald Crowhurst's attempt to sail in a round the world yacht race in 1968. Dennis has worked on South African themed works that include The Lion Seeker, about early Jewish settlement and emigration to South Africa. He narrated and brought many characters to life in The Zebra Affaire, set in 1976 apartheid South Africa. Dennis adopts the various South African accents in an authentic, meaningful, and sensitive way, allowing his own South African roots to flow through the narration.

Dennis was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and emigrated to the United States in 1980 after completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Cape Town. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

08/09/2021

Lovegrove’s clever third novel-length pastiche (after 2020’s Sherlock Holmes & the Beast of the Stapletons) links winter-time mysteries from different years, each involving members of one family. In 1889, Timothy Wragge, a teacher at the preparatory school in Kent he and Watson attended 20 years earlier, reports that Hector Robinson, a boy who was a frequent victim of bullying, was found drowned in the school lake. Despite the headmaster’s belief that Robinson’s death was an accident, Wragge believes Robinson was killed by the two students who routinely tormented him. Others suspect that a witch’s curse placed on a previous owner of the property the school occupies is responsible. In 1890, industrialist Eustace Agius is haunted in his London home by an apparition possibly connected to a tragic fire at his cotton mill that claimed nearly 100 lives. In the final segment, set in 1894, the Agiuses are implicated in a horrific murder that was apparently committed by a cannibal. The solid characterizations match the imaginative plotting. Though this isn’t at the level of Lovegrove’s best work, it’s a strong rebound from his subpar previous outing. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"The gift of a 'new' Sherlock Holmes mystery for the holiday season is just what we hoped Father Christmas would bring us this year.... SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE THREE WINTER TERRORS will chill readers to the bone, and this complete trilogy makes for another Holmes masterpiece." - BookReporter

"The solid characterizations match the imaginative plotting." -Publishers Weekly


Praise for James Lovegrove’s Sherlock Holmes novels:

"Lovegrove has nailed Doyle’s writing style… It’s as if the story were written by Doyle himself." - New York Journal of Books

"Lovegrove is a grandmaster of the Sherlock Holmes homage" - The Guardian

"A rip-roaring tale full of atmosphere, suspense and adventure" - The Sherlock Holmes Journal

"A wonderful addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon" - Criminal Element

"A ripping yarn told with style and gusto… Brilliant" - Starburst

"Canonical characterizations complement the ingenious plot" - Publishers Weekly

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