THE GAME'S AFOOT... It is November 1890, and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued, Holmes and Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events, stretching from the gaslit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston and the mysterious 'House of Silk' . . .
Horowitz's Holmes Reeks
Deze serie biedt een frisse, eigentijdse kijk op de iconische detective en zijn trouwe metgezel. Volg hun spannende avonturen, die klassieke mysteries combineren met onverwachte wendingen en psychologische diepgang. De verhalen trekken lezers mee naar de schaduwrijke straten van Londen en naar ingewikkelde zaken die niet alleen het genie van de protagonist op de proef stellen, maar ook de kracht van hun band.


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Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, Chase must hunt down this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace. The game is afoot . . .