The House of Silk A Sherlock Holmes Novel [Paperback]

Horowitz truly pulls off the wonderful illusion that Arthur Conan Doyle left us one last tale. --San Diego Union Tribune

London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.

THE HOUSE OF SILK bring Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print....until now.Anthony Horowitzis the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Alex Rider series and the award-winning writer of PBS'sFoyle's War,Collision, Injusticeas well as many other film and television projects. He lives in London. Exceptionally entertaining ... one can only applaud Horowitz's skill ... impressive ... an altogether terrific period thriller and one of the best Sherlockian pastiches of our time. The Washington Post The latest edition to [Sherlock's] distinguished legacy...Admirers of Horowitz's ITV series,Foyle's War, and Sherlockians will delight in equal measure. With consummate grasp, Horowitz unfolds an intricate and rewarding mystery in the finest Victorian tradition...For all its deft and loving fidelity, THE HOUSE OF SILK sees the great detective in grisly and unfamiliar straits. Vanity Fair Cliffhanger plotting... Watson's elegiac voice should silence the objections of even the most persnickety Sherlock scholar. NPR A book firmly rooted in the style of Doyle, faithful to the character as created and with just enough wiggle room to allow the author to say all the things l3Ê