Published by Collins Crime Club,
10 November 2019. ISBN 978-0-00-819507-6 (HB)
10 November 2019. ISBN 978-0-00-819507-6 (HB)
In 1890, in a freezing November!
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson become embroiled in a nasty case entitled The Devil’s Due. The records were found by this
author in a mysterious box from the British Library. Since the lights of
her flat in modern London went out as soon as she opened the particular envelope,
she feels the title of the case to be rather ominous.
Dr.
Watson decides to move back in with Sherlock Holmes while his wife, the former
Mary Morstan, stays with friends in the countryside. Holmes is already
involved in this case searching for the self-styled ‘Lucifer’.
Holmes acts in his usual peremptory way with Watson faintly pursuing and often
putting his foot into delicate matters. Watson’s medical skills
help when he has to deal with Sherlock’s broken wrist after an altercation with
the new police Commissioner, Titus Billings. Not only has Billings
forbidden any involvement by Holmes in police cases but a newspaper reporter is
busy building up a picture of Holmes as a devilish lying incompetent.
The
case concerns mysterious and bizarre deaths of members of the secret club of
Luminarians, which Holmes realises are occurring in alphabetical order.
Holmes is really battling against the odds with his brother, Mycroft, as an
eminence gris behind Government actions appearing to stand in his way.
There is also a society lady demanding his attention for her problems.
This is a very exciting story fully in the Conan Doyle tradition.
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Reviewer:
Jennifer S. Palmer
Bonnie
Macbird has published two previous adventures about Holmes and Watson.
Bonnie MacBird was born in San Francisco,
educated at Stanford. Bonnie MacBird lives in Los Angeles and London. A fan of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle since age ten, she's active in the Sherlockian community
in both the UK and the US, and speaks regularly on Sherlock Holmes, writing,
and creativity. A longtime veteran of Hollywood, MacBird has been a
screenwriter (original script for TRON), an Emmy winning producer, a
playwright, studio exec (Universal) and actor. MacBird attributes her enjoyment in capturing
"voice" to both her acting and screenwriting experience and her music
training as well. She teaches a popular screenwriting class at UCLA Extension,
which approaches writing for film using techniques of other art forms. In her Sherlock Holmes novels, she aims to
accurately portray the brilliant detective and his friend as closely as
possible to Doyle yet expanding the original short form fiction to full length
novels. Art In The Blood features a
child who has disappeared, and a bloody art theft and touches on the theme of
the perils and blessings of the artistic temperament. Unquiet Spirits features a murdered girl, a threatened scientist,
and a haunted whisky estate, while considering the dangers of not dealing with
the ghosts of one's past. She is a regular speaker on writing, creativity, and
Sherlock Holmes. She lives in Los Angeles.
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