Sherlock Holmes - The Red Tower

by Mark A. Latham

Overview

The brand new adventure from the author of A Betrayal in Blood, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are faced with a fiendish locked room mystery.A FAMILY SECRETIt is 1894, and after a macabre séance at a country estate, a young woman has been found dead in a locked room. When Dr Watson is invited to a weekend party where a séance is planned, he is prepared to be sceptical. James Crain, heir to the estate of Crain Manor, has fallen in with a mysterious group of Spiritualists and is determined to prove the existence of the paranormal. Confronted with a suspicious medium and sightings of the family ghost, Watson remains unconvinced – until James's sister, Lady Esther, is found dead in a room locked from the inside. Holmes is called to investigate the strange events at Crain Manor, but finds that every guest harbours a secret. Holmes and Watson must uncover the truth, and test the existence of the supernatural…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783298693
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	03/20/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	546,851
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mark A. Latham is a writer, editor, history nerd, frustrated grunge singer and amateur baker from Staffordshire, UK. A recent immigrant to rural Nottinghamshire, he lives in a very old house (sadly not haunted), and is still regarded in the village as a foreigner.

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/19/2018
Dr. Watson takes center stage for much of Latham’s superior second Holmes pastiche (after 2017’s A Betrayal in Blood), just as he did in The Hound of the Baskervilles, of which this is a clever variant. Watson travels from London to remote Crain Manor in Berkshire at the request of a friend, James Crain, a marquess’s son who became a spiritualist after the death of his beloved mother. Watson is grieving as well, following the death of his wife, Mary. He doubts that Crain’s medium, Madame Farr, is legitimate, but his skepticism is tested when an apparition that resembles Mary appears in his room. The plot thickens after Watson learns of a family curse stemming from a 17th-century matricide, which led to part of the manor being dubbed the Red Tower and being placed off limits. Watson proves to be a capable and sympathetic lead until Holmes arrives to sort out an apparent locked-room murder, which claimed a member of the Crain household in the tower. Sherlockians are in for a treat. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"A complex and satisfying mystery, complete with family secrets, business intrigue, a touch of supernatural trickery, and the laser-focused observations of the inimitable Holmes makes for an enjoyable addition to the Holmes canon." - San Francisco Book Review

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