A Knife in the Fog

✍ Scribed by Harper, Bradley

• Book ID: 110306563
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 880 KB
• Series: Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyle 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781633884878

✦ 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...