A knife in the fog: a mystery featuring Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyle
โ Scribed by Bradley Harper
- Book ID
- 100124447
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Year
- 2019;2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1633884864
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Physician Arthur Conan Doyle takes a break from his practice to assist London police in tracking down Jack the Ripper.
September 1888. A twenty-nine-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle practices medicine by day and writes at night. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet , although gaining critical and popular success, has only netted him twenty-five pounds. Embittered by the experience, he vows never to write another "crime story." Then a messenger arrives with a mysterious summons from former Prime Minister William Gladstone, asking him to come to London immediately.
Once there, he is offered one month's employment to assist the Metropolitan Police as a "consultant" in their hunt for the serial killer soon to be known as Jack the Ripper. Doyle agrees on the stipulation his old professor of surgery, Professor Joseph Bell--Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes--agrees to work with him. Bell agrees, and soon the two are joined by Miss Margaret...
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