![]() ![]() Action, rather than ratiocination, dominates, and the writing is uneven. Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. After Holmes has a terrifying supernatural encounter, Watson reveals the true circumstances of how he was wounded in Afghanistan, and the pair team up. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Holmes suspects Stamford of being behind a series of gruesome murders that have left the victims’ corpses desiccated. ![]() ![]() Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left. ![]() Valentine Stamford, disrupted a disguised Holmes’s surveillance of the man. The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove: 9781785652912 : Books It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. In a prologue, Watson admits that in his previously recounted stories he has constructed “a shell of artifice around a dark, rotten kernel so as to protect civilisation from certain facts that would throw its cosy self-assurance into drastic and lasting disarray.” He begins with an altered account of his first meeting with Holmes the pair actually met in 1880 in a seedy back alley London pub when Watson’s well-intentioned intervention in a violent confrontation involving an old colleague, Dr. British author Lovegrove ( Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine) attempts a thorough revision of the canon in this trilogy kickoff, but fails to effectively blend the world of the uber-rational Holmes with that of Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors. ![]()
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