Аннотация
Graham Moore
The Sherlockian
Copyright © Graham Moore, 2010
The Sherlockian is a work of historical fiction. All of the contemporary characters in the novel are the product of the author’s imagination.
For my mother, who first taught me to love mysteries when I was eight years old. We lay in bed passing a copy of Agatha Christie’s A Murder in Three Acts back and forth, reading to each other.
She made all of this possible .
CHAPTER 1 The Reichenbach Falls
So please grip this fact with your cerebral tentacle
The doll and its maker are never identical
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
London Opinion, December 12,1912
August 9, l893
Arthur Conan Doyle curled his brow tightly and thought only of murder.
“I’m going to kill him,” Conan Doyle said as he folded his arms across his broad frame. High in the Swiss Alps, the air tickled Arthur’s inch-thick mustache and seemed to blow straight through his e...
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