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20/21C – A murder at a Sherlock Holmes convention in Switzerland? Sounds intriguing before you even open the first page
And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)
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Gustav Slavorigin is a noted writer and ‘professional controversialist’ which means he often riles people up by disagreeing with them or by playing devil’s advocate and forcing them to think about a subject. He attends the Sherlock Holmes mystery festival in the small Swiss Town of Meiringen when he is murdered, an arrow speared through his heart.
Investigations start but it turns out that there was a price on his head and so everyone could have a motive. Enter Evadne Mount, the stubborn amateur sleuth and bestselling crime novelist who starts to look more closely at the motives and evidence – and searches for more. The stage is set for a case and finale worthy of a Sherlock Holmes novel – right at the Reichenbach Falls – the site of Holmes’s fatal confrontation with his nemesis, Moriarty . . .
Travel Guide
A setting so linked to Sherlock Holmes is perfect for a mystery with an amateur sleuth at its centre, a murder mystery and a gripping finale right at the very place where Holmes and Moriarty had their fatal confrontation….
Reichenbach Falls
A mystery and a fictional memoir since Adair attends this literary festival himself where he is to make a speech. When there is a murder – and the man is found in a replica of room 221B, Adair and Evadne are both involved in the investigation.
Sherlock Holmes Museum
The novel is based in and round the characters and setting of Sherlock Holmes. This place really is noted for its Sherlock links – there’s a museum and a statue or two, and both the story and the setting lend from all Sherlock Holmes fictional world.The story reads as a mix of Sherlock Holmes meets Agatha Christie. There is a full representation and narration of a Sherlock Holmes story within the story as a whole- The Giant Rat Of Sumatra, first mentioned in The Adventure Of The Sussex Vampire….and a strange story it turns out to be.
A pastiche and parody of a world where Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie mingle and where Adair himself becomes a kind of Watson to Evadne Mount.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)
Destination: Meiringen Departure Time: 20/21C
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