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London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of Montmartre. Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, Holmes discovers the missing child is only the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem. The most valuable statue since the Winged Victory has been violently stolen in Marseilles, and several children from a silk mill in Lancashire have been found murdered. The clues in all three cases point to a single, untouchable man. Will Holmes recover in time to find the missing boy and stop a rising tide of murders? To do so he must stay one step ahead of a dangerous French rival and the threatening interference of his own brother, Mycroft. This latest adventure, in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sends the iconic duo from London to Paris and the icy wilds of Lancashire in a case which tests Watson's friendship and the fragility and gifts of Sherlock Holmes' own artistic nature to the limits.

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a â??ghostlyâ? hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.

After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird’s critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself. It’s 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date – a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London’s most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. But when his brother Mycroft disappears, apparently the victim of murder, even those loyal to Holmes begin to wonder how close to the flames he has travelled. Has Sherlock Holmes himself made a deal with the devil?

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland, but brother Mycroft trumps all with an urgent assignment in the South of France.On the fabled Riviera, Holmes and Watson encounter treachery, explosions, rival French Detective Jean Vidocq... and a terrible discovery. This propels the duo northward to the snowy highlands. There, in a "haunted" castle and among the copper dinosaurs of a great whisky distillery, they and their young client face mortal danger, and Holmes realizes all three cases have blended into a single, deadly conundrum.In order to solve the mystery, the ultimate rational thinker must confront a ghost from his own past. But Sherlock Holmes does not believe in ghosts...or does he?

A heatwave melts London as Holmes and Watson are called to action in this new Sherlock Holmes adventure by Bonnie MacBird, author of “one of the best Sherlock Holmes novels of recent memory.” In Whitechapel, a renowned Italian escape artist dies spectacularly on stage during a performance – immolated in a gleaming copper cauldron of his wife’s design. In Cambridge, the runaway daughter of a famous don drowns, her long blonde hair tangled in the Jesus Lock on the River Cam. And in Baker Street, a malevolent locksmith exacts an unusual price to open a small silver box sent to Watson. From the glow of the London stage to the buzzing Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where physicists explore the edges of new science of electricity, Holmes and Watson race between the two cities to solve the murders, encountering prevaricating prestidigitators, philandering physicists and murderous mentalists, all the while unlocking secrets which may be best left undisclosed. And one, in particular, lands very close to home.

Holmes and Watson face treachery and danger in the latest full-length thriller by Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood. Murder, jealousy, and deceit underscore three interlocking mysteries as Holmes and Watson take on a high profile case at Windsor Castle, a boy drowned in the Serpentine, and a crusading women’s rights activist who suspects a traitor in her organization. The cases send them into danger into locales as varied as the Palace itself, a dockland cannery, an arts and crafts atelier, and a Gypsy encampment. But is there peril underfoot as well – right at 221B Baker Street? The twisting, breathlessly plotted conjoined mysteries that Bonnie MacBird is known for provide a thrill ride that will delight Sherlockians worldwide.

Holmes and Watson face treachery and danger in the latest full-length thriller by Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood.

It’s the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world’s most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood. It’s Christmastime in London, and Sherlock Holmes takes on two cases. The angelic three-year-old child of a wealthy couple is the target of a vicious kidnapper, and a country aristocrat worries that his handsome, favourite son has mysteriously vanished from his London pied à terre. Holmes and Watson, aided by the colourful Heffie O’Malley, slip slide in the ice to ensure a merry Christmas is had by nearly everybody . . .

It's the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world's most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood.

It’s the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world’s most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood. It’s Christmas 1890, and games are afoot. In a packed Oxford Street, a man tries to kidnap a young woman’s child, but Holmes and Watson leap to their rescue and the assailant escapes empty handed. Who would do such a thing? And more importantly – will he strike again? From the depths of London’s workhouses to the pinnacle of a glittering Christmas Eve party in Mayfair, this is to be a Christmas that will require not only Holmes’s celebrated scientific method, but also the bravery for which he and Watson are renowned. And the final solution will demand something more from the Great Detective – something Watson has never before observed in his friend.

Londres. Un nevado diciembre de 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, languidece y ha vuelto a la cocaina despues de una desastrosa investigacion del Destripador. Watson tampoco puede consolar ni animar a su amigo, hasta que una carta codificada extranamente llega desde Paris. Mlle La Victoire, una hermosa estrella francesa de cabaret escribe que su hijo ilegitimo de un lord ingles ha desaparecido, y ella ha sido atacada en las calles de Montmartre.Al llegar rapidamente a Paris con Watson a su lado, Holmes descubre que el nino desaparecido es solamente la punta del iceberg de un problema mucho mayor. La estatua mas valiosa desde la Victoria Alada ha sido violentamente robada en Marsella, y varios ninos pertenecientes al molino de seda en Lancashire han sido encontrados muertos. Las pistas en los tres casos senalan a un unico hombre, intocable. Se recuperara a tiempo Will Holmes para encontrar al nino desaparecido y detener una oleada de asesinatos? Para hacerlo debe ir un paso adelante de un peligroso rival frances y la amenazadora interferencia de su propio hermano, Mycroft.Esta ultima aventura, al estilo de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, envia al iconico duo desde Londres hasta Paris y a los frios terrenos agrestes de Lancashire en un caso que prueba al limite la amistad de Watson y la fragilidad y los talentos de la propia naturaleza artistica de Sherlock Holmes.

London, en snöig decemberdag år 1888. Doktor Watson nås av ett brådskande meddelande: hans gode vän och kompanjon, den världsberömde detektiven Sherlock Holmes, har fallit tillbaka i sitt kokainberoende. Det ser mörkt ut för Holmes och inget kan få honom på bättre tankar tills han en dag får ett mystiskt brev från Paris. Det är den franska kabaréstjärna mademoiselle La Victoire som förtvivlat vädjar om hjälp. Hennes son är försvunnen. Tillsammans med Watson skyndar sig detektiven till Paris. Där upptäcker han att pojkens försvinnande bara är toppen av ett isberg. Under ytan döljer sig en väv av intrikata mord och brutala lögner. Nu måste Watson och Holmes hitta pojken och samtidigt sätta stopp för den bestialiske mördaren. Frågan är bara: Kommer de hinna i tid, innan fler offer skördas? Och kommer mademoiselle La Victoire få se sin son igen? *** Bonnie MacBird är född och uppvuxen i San Fransisco, men bor numera i Los Angeles. Hon har studerat musik och film vid Stanford University och har en lång karriär i Hollywood bakom sig, som bland annat manusförfattare och regissör. När Bonnie MacBride var tio år gammal förälskade hon sig i historierna om Sherlock Holmes, en kärlek som fortfarande består. Idag undervisar hon i kreativt skrivande och håller ofta föredrag om den legendariske detektiven.