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Sherlock Holmes: The Defaced Men
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Series (Book 2)
- Author
- Tim Major
- Narrator
- Tom Woosnam
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 31 January 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night.
1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he’s being threatened via the new art of the moving image …
Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of motion picture projection, believes his life is in danger. Twice he has been almost run down in the street by the same mysterious carriage, and moreover, disturbing alterations have been made to his lecture slides. These are closely guarded, yet just before each lecture an unknown hand has defaced images depicting Muybridge himself, which he has discovered, to his horror, only as he projects them to his audience. As Holmes and Watson investigate, a bewildering trail of clues only deepens the mystery, and meanwhile, newspaper speculation reaches fever pitch. The great detective’s reputation is on the line, and may be ruined for good unless he can pick apart a mystery centered on the capturing, for the first time, of figures in motion, and the wonders of the new cinematograph.
Critics Review
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“Fans of traditional Holmes stories should welcome a sequel.”
Publishers Weekly on The Back to Front Murder
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“Major has a special skill of weaving his characters’ inner turmoil into the perils they face in the plot.”
Morning Star, praise for the author
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“The only novel I have read that made my ears tingle.”
The Times (UK) on The Back to Front Murder
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Details
- Author
- Tim Major
- Narrator
- Tom Woosnam
- Duration
- 9 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 January 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212172820
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night.1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he’s being threatened via the new art of the moving image …Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of motion picture projection, believes his life is in danger. Twice he has been almost run down in the street by the same mysterious carriage, and moreover, disturbing alterations have been made to his lecture slides. These are closely guarded, yet just before each lecture an unknown hand has defaced images depicting Muybridge himself, which he has discovered, to his horror, only as he projects them to his audience. As Holmes and Watson investigate, a bewildering trail of clues only deepens the mystery, and meanwhile, newspaper speculation reaches fever pitch. The great detective’s reputation is on the line, and may be ruined for good unless he can pick apart a mystery centered on the capturing, for the first time, of figures in motion, and the wonders of the new cinematograph.
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