Seamas Duffy Sherlock Holmes & The Sixty Steps Paperback Book

Samas Duffys fourth novel, "Sherlock Holmes and the Sixty Steps" follows a similar format to his previously published Holmes collections a novella together with some shorter stories. The four stories are "The Tragedy of Langhorne Wyke" (1890) "The Mystery of the Thirteen Bells" (1895) "The Adventure of the Sixty Steps" (1897) "TheProblemof the Coptic Patriarchs" (1898)."The Tragedy of Langhorne Wyke" sees the detective and his chronicler travel to Yorkshires North Riding to solve the double murder of a wellheeled but mysterious couple. Holmes and Watson are immediately confronted with the sudden, and ominous, disappearance of the two witnesses to the murder an elderly widow and her travelling companion. The trail eventually leads back to London and to crimes committed, but unavenged, from Holmess past. In "The Mystery of the Thirteen Bells", Holmes and Watson, along with Inspector Lestrade, are involved in a grisly treasure hunt of a murder. In a London mired in thick November fog, their footsteps are dogged by a silent unseen adversary as they follow a series of cryptograms which they must decipher. These macabre clues lead them to some of Victorian Londons queerest places, and to one of its most bizarre institutions (which Holmes describes as "a citadel of the mad and the dead").In "The Adventure of the Sixty Steps", Holmes and Watson travel to Glasgow in an attempt to save an innocent man who has been wrongly convicted of the brutal murder of a rich, elderly spinster ... | Seamas Duffy Sherlock Holmes & The Sixty Steps Paperback Book