The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. Hardcover Book

This listing is for The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. Hardcover by Nicholas Meyer.  

Publisher: E. P. Dutton

Publication date: January 1, 1976

Edition: First Edition

Language: English

Print length: 222 pages

ISBN-10: 0525231021

ISBN-13: 978-0525231028

This book read very quickly and felt just like an original by Conan Doyle. Very cool how it combined many characters from the popular theater crowd of the period and interwove them throughout the book. I highly recommend it to any Sherlock Holmes enthusiast as well as anyone looking for a witty, quick and thrilling mystery.

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. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.

Some 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.

Scotland 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.

"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote. . . . Don't miss it." Cosmopolitan

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