Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein's Diary - Hardcover

Grant, Barry

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9780727882189: Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein's Diary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 072788218X ISBN 13: 9780727882189

Publisher: Severn House, 2013

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A scientist who tortures apes in a mountain lab. A corpse in a locked study. A super-hacker called Black Swann. These send Sherlock Holmes from Switzerland to the English countryside – plunging him into an Orwellian world where tabloids, government and police have made a devil’s pact to hack the private lives of citizens.

With animal and human rights threatened, Holmes moves to end the mad experiments of Professor Droon, find what killed Sylvia Swann, and save Inspector Lestrade from corrupt superiors.

Quick and quirky as ever, Sherlock is fully recovered from the icy journey that carried him from 1914 to the present day. And in this fourth adventure he proves yet again the superiority of mind over megabytes.

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Book Description:

“Grant’s Holmes novels are not pastiches but full-fledged mysteries, almost as if Conan Doyle were living today and still writing about Holmes” Booklist

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The story so far: Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous consulting detective, long presumed dead, was unfrozen from a glacier in the modern day; with his new sidekick, journalist James Wilson, Holmes continues to solve crimes whose mind-boggling nature only he can penetrate. This time out, the apparent murder of an animal-rights activist leads Holmes and Wilson into a devilishly complex plot involving a widely disliked media mogul (an obvious stand-in for Rupert Murdoch) and a scientist whose research is either cutting edge or certifiably insane, depending on your point of view. Grant never plays these stories for laughs, although, as with Conan Doyle’s originals, there is humor in them. This fourth in the series comes closest to spoofing the source material, but it never quite gets there, remaining, like its predecessors, a nicely written, cleverly constructed mystery starring a character that genuinely feels like the original S. Holmes, albeit in modern dress. Fans of the abundance of Holmes spin-offs and tie-ins will definitely want to check this series out, if they haven’t already. --David Pitt

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