March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed...
One of the more successful Holmes pastiches in that the writer has a distinctive take on Holmes rather than simply replicating Conan Doyle’s version. It’s a version of Holmes recognisable from the original stories but which takes account of psychological theories and analysis over the years – Ni...