The West End Horror

✍ Scribed by Meyer, Nicholas

• Book ID: 109979585
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Series: Sherlock Holmes
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393311532

✦ Synopsis

"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote. . . . Don't miss it."—CosmopolitanMarch 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.

Some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.

Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter...