The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes and the Great War
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- 189,00 Kč
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- 189,00 Kč
Publisher Description
In a new gripping and immersive adventure Sherlock Holmes investigates collusion and conspiracy in the Belgian trenches of World War One
December 1917. An important visitor arrives at a field hospital not far from the front, who makes sharp deductions about the way the ward is run based on small details that he sees. Sherlock Holmes is apparently only present for a tour, but asks searching questions about a young officer who apparently died in the hospital, but whose records have mysteriously vanished. As Holmes digs deeper, details emerge pertaining to a cover-up that stretches from the trenches to the top of the War Office, and conspiracy on both the British and enemy fronts.
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In 1917, orderly Augusta Watson, the narrator of this excellent Sherlock Holmes pastiche from Guerrier (The Time Travellers and other Doctor Who novels), is doing the necessary scut work to keep an English military hospital in Belgium functioning. Her life's upended when Holmes, a man whose misogyny she finds offensive, arrives at the hospital, ostensibly just to observe its operations. The astute Watson, who's unrelated to Dr. Watson, deduces that he has another objective in mind, and the sleuth confirms that he's looking into the death of Capt. Philip Ogle-Thompson. The absence of any records of the captain's presence contradicts the commanding general's letter to Ogle-Thompson's mother, which stated that her son died peacefully in the hospital. Watson is assigned to drive Holmes to the front, where he seeks out the captain's unit and finds evidence that his death—an apparent battlefield suicide—may be connected to an insidious plot to undermine troop morale. This Watson is an appealing and capable sidekick, unafraid to stand up to the legendary, sometimes acerbic Holmes. Fans of the pastiche subgenre involving Conan Doyle's detective in WWI won't want to miss this one.
