Description |
407 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
The first terror: the witch's curse, 1889 -- The second terror: the cotton mill ghost, 1890 -- The third terror: the Yukon cannibal, 1894. |
Summary |
"1889. The first terror. At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's curse from over two hundred years earlier? 1890. The second terror. A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts? 1894. The third terror. A body is discovered in the dark woods near a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal, as the evidence suggests? These three chilling and strangely linked crimes test Sherlock Holmes's deductive powers, and his scepticism about the supernatural, to the limit"--P. [2] of jacket. |
Subject |
Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction.
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Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Genre |
Detective and mystery stories.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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ISBN |
9781789096712 (hbk.) |
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1789096715 (hbk.) |
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