The Devil's Blaze: Sherlock Holmes: 1943 (Sherlock's War) - Softcover

Robert J. Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846975972 ISBN 13: 9781846975974

Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited), 2022

Synopsis

The world’s greatest detective returns.

London, 1943.

Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace - Sherlock Holmes.

The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country’s most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Holmes knows that, behind his façade of respectability, Moriarty is the mastermind behind a vast criminal empire. As they pursue the trail of incendiary murders, Holmes is quite sure that the professor is playing a double game and that there lies ahead a duel to the death which they cannot both survive.

A tribute to the classic Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

About this title

About the Author

Robert J. Harris was born in Dundee and studied at the University of St Andrews where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Latin. He is the designer of the bestselling fantasy board game Talisman and has written numerous books including Leonardo and the Death Machine, Will Shakespeare and the Pirate's Fire, and more recently The Artie Conan Doyle Mysteries, a series featuring the youthful adventures of the creator of Sherlock Holmes. His first Richard Hannay novel, The Thirty-One Kings, was acclaimed by critics and readers alike and was listed by The Scotsman as one of the fifty best books of 2017. He lives in St Andrews with his wife Debby.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846975972
• ISBN 13: 9781846975974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288