The Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde
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Publisher Description
A deftly crafted, scintillating mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror – Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde encounter villains with unfathomable, terrifying abilities…
1903. A darkness has descended on London. A series of grisly murders are uncovered, trophies taken, bodies arranged and soon there are whispers of Jack the Ripper's return.
A new client arrives at Baker Street seeking Sherlock Holmes's help: Dr Jekyll claims his friend has been wrongfully accused of the hideous crimes, a friend called Mr Edward Hyde, whose very existence relies on a potion administered by the doctor himself.
But the case becomes more complicated, more unsettling than simply proving Mr Hyde's innocence – for Holmes and Watson unearth beastly transformations, a killer who moves unseen, a secret organisation and then find a traitor in their midst…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Klaver's Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula (2021), Dr. Watson became a vampire, while Dracula allied himself with Sherlock Holmes to combat Professor Moriarty. In this tepid sequel, Klaver tosses in elements from Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and H.P. Lovecraft. The starting point is the ostensible return, in 1903, of Jack the Ripper and the arrival at Baker Street of a prospective client—none other than Dr. Henry Jekyll, who transforms before Holmes and Watson's eyes into Edward Hyde. A witness identified Hyde as the Ripper at the scene of the latest atrocity, but Holmes believes his claims of innocence. Along with Dracula, the Baker Street duo investigate, finding evidence of lycanthropy and a threat to Earth from another dimension. Over-the-top situations, rather than any scares, dominate. Ponderous prose ("she'd been roughened and shopworn by sin and sorrow as to seem a slender candleflame of a woman very near to guttering out") doesn't help. Readers looking for a superior treatment of this crossover idea will be better served by Loren Estleman's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes.
