![]() Action, rather than ratiocination, dominates, and the writing is uneven. ![]() After Holmes has a terrifying supernatural encounter, Watson reveals the true circumstances of how he was wounded in Afghanistan, and the pair team up. Lovecraft collide.It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have battled R'lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Holmes suspects Stamford of being behind a series of gruesome murders that have left the victims’ corpses desiccated. The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Valentine Stamford, disrupted a disguised Holmes’s surveillance of the man. Holmes deduces a connection to a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. In a prologue, Watson admits that in his previously recounted stories he has constructed “a shell of artifice around a dark, rotten kernel so as to protect civilisation from certain facts that would throw its cosy self-assurance into drastic and lasting disarray.” He begins with an altered account of his first meeting with Holmes the pair actually met in 1880 in a seedy back alley London pub when Watson’s well-intentioned intervention in a violent confrontation involving an old colleague, Dr. He meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. ![]() ![]() ![]() British author Lovegrove ( Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine) attempts a thorough revision of the canon in this trilogy kickoff, but fails to effectively blend the world of the uber-rational Holmes with that of Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors. ![]()
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