Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein's Diary
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The pseudonymous Grant's overly busy fourth mystery featuring a revived Sherlock Holmes (after 2012's Sherlock Holmes and the Swedish Enigma) takes Holmes and his Watsonian sidekick, James Wilson, on a mission for Scotland Yard to Switzerland, where Holmes was frozen for nearly a century in a glacier. Holmes and Wilson visit Dr. Jan Droon, a mad scientist complete with an Igor-like assistant, at his Swiss chalet. Dr. Droon, who despairs of man's murderous nature, wants "to create a new man, a new life form!" To demonstrate his theories, he tortures a caged ape with a blowtorch. This over-the-top encounter may be related to a hacking scandal the Baker Street duo investigate involving tabloid newspaper magnate Gerald Gurloch. As befits the 21st-century setting, the diary of the title turns out to be a blog by a hacker. Grant does give Holmes scope to demonstrate his deductive brilliance, but the disparate plot elements fail to gel.
