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| Title | : | The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes - Anthony Horowitz #1) |
| Author | : | Anthony Horowitz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition (US/CAN) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 294 pages |
| Published | : | November 2011 by Mulholland Books |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime |
Anthony Horowitz
Hardcover | Pages: 294 pages Rating: 3.97 | 39783 Users | 4350 Reviews
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For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.Once again, THE GAME’S AFOOT…
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.
Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now.
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| Original Title: | The House of Silk |
| ISBN: | 0316196991 (ISBN13: 9780316196994) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sherlock Holmes - Anthony Horowitz #1 |
| Characters: | Inspector Lestrade, James Moriarty, Edmund Carstairs, Tobias Finch, Cornelius Stillman, Bill McParland, Catherine Carstairs, Mr. Kirby, Margaret Kirby, Patrick the nephew, Eliza Carstairs, Wiggins, a Baker Street Irregular, Ross Dixon, Sally Dixon, Lord Alec Ravenshaw, Isaiah Creer, Constable Stanley Perkins, Inspector J. Harriman, Lord Horace Blackwater, Dr. Thomas Ackland, Dr. Percy Trevalayan, Mr. Hawkins, Rivers, Keelan O'Donaghue, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Asmodeus Silkin, Reverend Charles Fitzsimmons, Joanna Fitzsimmons, Rourke O'Donaghue, Jason Bratby, Mrs Hudson, Dr. John Watson, Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes |
| Literary Awards: | Macavity Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel (2012), Nero Award Nominee (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 39783 Users | 4350 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes - Anthony Horowitz #1)
I admit that I am not a huge fan of the Sherlock Holmes books, and I was hoping for something more like "Magpie Murders" but this was just straight forward Sherlock Holmes. I liked some of the period detail but the story did seem to drag on. There was a lot of intricate plotting, so if you are a Holmes lover you'll probably enjoy this more than I did. I got a little bored.3.5 starsThis is Anthony Horowitz's first addition to the 'Sherlock Holmes' canon and he does a good job capturing the voice of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As the book opens, Holmes is dead and Watson is an elderly man who's decided to write up one of his friend's old investigations - a case so hush-hush that it can't be released for 100 years. The 100 years is now up.*****The sensitive inquiry begins when Holmes is visited by Edmund Carstairs, a wealthy art dealer who claims he's being stalked by
I purchased this eBook approximately 6 months after it was published and it has taken me 6 years to finally get around to reading it. Even though I love Anthony Horowitzs writing. Even though I enjoy the appeal of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as much as any lover of Golden Age of Mystery stories. Time does have a way of getting away, and great books are flooded by more great books every single day. As a reader, this makes me very happy time is far more elastic than we might think, and this
I tip my hat off to you Anthony Horowitz. Having loved your Alex Rider novels because of their brilliant plotting I now see that you are capable of turning your hand to constructing an incredible Sherlock Holmes novel. In an age where to the majority of people Sherlock Holmes means either Benedict Cumberbatch or Robert Downey Jnr it is refreshing to see some who still recall that Holmes was first and foremost one of the greatest creations of literature. Few who know that still don't know that it
An excellent tale of Holmes and Watson, it kept me reading and fits very well among the series as written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was marketed as the first official allowed sequel makes you wonder what the status is of the other official sequel written by Caleb Carr "The Italian Secretary". While Horowitz doesn't delve as deep in the Victorian world (as Carr was able to do) he does give the impression that he knows his stuff and nowhere does the novel stray of in unbelievable mistakes in time
As an avid fan of the authors books, Magpie Murders, The Word Is Murder, and The Sentence is Death, I was anxious to read this one. Horowitz received approval from Arthur Conan Doyles estate to write a new Sherlock Holmes novel, and this book was the result. I confess that I have not read a Sherlock Homes book, so I have nothing to compare this one to, but in typical Horowitz fashion, it was well-written and I trust the author stayed true to the characters. I found the dynamic between Holmes and
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