Are they real? Are they fake? Is the rarefied world of Holmesian scholarship about to be unset? or are even worse revelations in store? In his preface, Lovegrove relates the unlikely tale of hos his hitherto unknown family connection with HP Lovecraft led to the receipt of three yellowing typescripts, the work of none other than Dr John Watson, recounting the true story of his adventures with Sherlock Holmes. I love a bit of Sherlock Holmes, so was delighted when Titan offered me a copy of the first book in this new series by James Lovegrove. Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave – or mad – enough to dare… Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire.
Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. I'm grateful to the publisher for an advance copy of this book. The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
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