Checkmate! A Sherlock Holmes Novel (Paperback)

Paperback. Christmas, 1895. Sherlock Holmes receives a strange package containing an opium-stained lady's handkerchief with the initials F.F. and a rabbit's foot. The following day he meets a prospective client, Fancy Fairways, a lovely young lady trying to save herself and her brother, Jack from evil forces.These two events plunge Holmes and his faithful friend and biographer Dr. Watson into a multi-faceted adventure that carries them all across London. A mysterious Dr. Steele is blackmailing the Fairways. Holmes learns the doctor may have ties to a drug ring. Meanwhile, Holmes's brother Mycroft seeks his help protecting a new secret weapon. But a ravishing femme fatale, Eve Corday threatens Mycroft. What is her connection to Dr. Steele?Holmes consults an expert in addictions at the Royal Society of Medicine, who recommends a sanatorium for young Jack. But soon after, the expert, Holmes, and Watson are all attacked. Then, there's an invitation to a masked ball from Eve Corday. Is it a trap?When Holmes reads coded messages in the newspaper about a man named 'X' he becomes suspicious. Is there a master hand at work behind the scenes? Could it be a ghost from his past? His long-dead nemesis come back from the dead? Or is Holmes nothing but a chess piece in a much larger game?The game's afoot in this rousing adventure! Join Holmes and Watson as they travel from fog-bound lanes to glittering nightspots. From the highest echelons of government to the lowest dregs of human despair. Where sudden danger lurks, sometimes cloaked in opium-drenched dreams. By Mark Evan Walker, author of the Kelly Riggs Mysteries, and you won't want to miss it! This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…