THE TANGLED SKEIN

Davies, David Stuart; Cushing, Peter

ISBN 10: 1874742006 / ISBN 13: 9781874742005

Published by Theme Publications, (Weymouth), 1992

About this Item

Signed first edition of this Dracula-detecting adventure, by a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and co-founder of the Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society. Limited to 500 copies, this is the second of Davies's several Sherlock Holmes pastiches, an equal blend of Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker in which deductive logic battles ancient bloodlust. 9'' x 6.75''. Original gilt-stamped red cloth; no jacket as issued. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece by Kathryn White; illustrations by Peter Charles Rees; decorated initials by Bella Pearce. 244 pages. Signed by Davies in ink to title page. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted Sherlockian, BSI member since 1973, and retired US magistrate judge Andrew Peck.

Seller Inventory # 54121

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE TANGLED SKEIN
• Publisher: Theme Publications, (Weymouth)
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1874742006
• ISBN 13: 9781874742005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sherlockiana

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Synopsis

It is the autumn of 1888. Following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned from Dartmoor, little realising that fate will see them back in Devon before the year is out.Holmes receives a potentially lethal package, the first strand in the tangled skein, which he will need to unravel before this new adventure is resolved.A threat to Holmes' life, murders on Hampstead Heath, and a strange phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken - an encounter which brings them face to face with evil itself, embodied in Count Dracula, the Lord of the Undead.