The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. - Nicholas Meyer

Descriere The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. - Nicholas Meyer

Selling two million copies in earlier editions, this is the second of the rediscovered Sherlock Holmes adventures. Acquired from a widow whose husband was descended from the distaff side of Holmes's family, this mystery finds Holmes solving a double murder in London's theater district. Don't miss it.--Cosmopolitan. \n \nMarch 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. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.\n \nSome of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.\n \nScotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. His name is Jack.\n

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W. W. Norton & Company

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9780393311532

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