The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Revenge from the Grave

by David Stuart Davies

Overview

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the return of the sinister Moriarty gang...

When Professor James Moriarty plunged over the Reichenbach Falls the world believed that Sherlock Holmes was also dead. Three years later, Holmes has returned – but so, too, has a deadly threat. With Moriarty’s criminal empire still very much alive, Holmes and Watson are forced to ask themselves if their greatest foe really did perish…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789097924
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	626,126
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Stuart Davies is one of Britain's leading Sherlockian writers. He was editor of Sherlock Holmes – The Detective Magazine, authored several Holmes novels, the hit play Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act, Titan’s Starring Sherlock Holmes and a biography of Jeremy Brett. He is a member of The Detection Club and contributed commentaries to DVDs of the Basil Rathbone Holmes films and the Granada Brett series.

Editorial Reviews

01/31/2022

Davies’s middling 10th novel-length pastiche (after 2019’s The Instrument of Death) plays a variation on an overused theme—Professor Moriarty’s return from the dead. After Holmes traps the professor’s number two, Col. Sebastian Moran, Moran manages to escape custody. A letter is left for Holmes, signed by Moriarty, announcing his return and the start of a revenge campaign. Holmes is certain that someone else is posing as the Napoleon of crime and reconstituting his criminal organization, possibly a Frenchwoman who ran a gang in Paris under the nom de plume Madame Defarge. His efforts to stay alive as he seeks to identify and thwart his new adversary occupy the bulk of the book, leaving the sleuth little room to employ his deductive reasoning powers as the action builds to an anticlimactic reveal. Sections not narrated by Watson eliminate some suspense, and the prose jars in places (at one point Holmes refers to his relationship with his brother, Mycroft, as good, because “blood is a great coagulant”). Readers interested in a better take on this idea should seek out John Gardner’s Moriarty series. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for the author

“A thundering good yarn… I whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone who has an affection for Holmes and a good, old-fashioned page turner.” –Sleuthing the Shelves (Scroll of the Dead)

“The best Sherlockian mystery novel I have seen all year… I do not hestitate to recommend it.” –Classic Specialities (Veiled Detective)

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