Sherlock Holmes - The Red Tower

by Mark A. Latham

Overview

The brand new adventure from the author of A Betrayal in Blood, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are faced with a fiendish locked room mystery.

Dr Watson has been invited to Crain Manor, where his old friend James Crain is to hold a spiritualist gathering. During a séance a ghostly figure is seen, supposedly the spirit of Sybille, the first Lady Crain, who murdered her husband in the tower room, and whose appearance is said to be a sign of disaster.

In an attempt to debunk the seance, James's sister Esther declares that she will sleep in the tower room - but at midnight there is a bloodcurdling scream and Esther is found dead, a look of horror on her face, and the room locked from the inside.

Watson sends for Sherlock Holmes to investigate the tragic death. But it will be anything but straightforward, as there are those who do not want him to succeed...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783298686
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	03/20/2018
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	688,763
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 15.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mark A. Latham is a writer, editor, history nerd, frustrated grunge singer and amateur baker from Staffordshire, UK. A recent immigrant to rural Nottinghamshire, he lives in a very old house (sadly not haunted), and is still regarded in the village as a foreigner.

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/19/2018
Dr. Watson takes center stage for much of Latham’s superior second Holmes pastiche (after 2017’s A Betrayal in Blood), just as he did in The Hound of the Baskervilles, of which this is a clever variant. Watson travels from London to remote Crain Manor in Berkshire at the request of a friend, James Crain, a marquess’s son who became a spiritualist after the death of his beloved mother. Watson is grieving as well, following the death of his wife, Mary. He doubts that Crain’s medium, Madame Farr, is legitimate, but his skepticism is tested when an apparition that resembles Mary appears in his room. The plot thickens after Watson learns of a family curse stemming from a 17th-century matricide, which led to part of the manor being dubbed the Red Tower and being placed off limits. Watson proves to be a capable and sympathetic lead until Holmes arrives to sort out an apparent locked-room murder, which claimed a member of the Crain household in the tower. Sherlockians are in for a treat. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"A complex and satisfying mystery, complete with family secrets, business intrigue, a touch of supernatural trickery, and the laser-focused observations of the inimitable Holmes makes for an enjoyable addition to the Holmes canon." - San Francisco Book Review

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