Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac

by Barrie Roberts (Author)

Synopsis

Now in his third year of retirement, the celebrated master detective Sherlock Holmes announces his firm resolve to stay well out of the affairs of others to his old friend and colleague, Dr John Watson. But this emphatic sentiment is to be short lived. At the behest of his enigmatic brother, Mycroft, Holmes is persuaded to investigate two unexplained, catastrophic train derailments which have caused the death of more than forty people. Why would a criminal wreck an express train? As the clues accumulate - a strange astronomer, the German Intelligence Service, a Russian yacht in the port of Aberdeen - the most homicidal lunatic in Britain remains at large. Can even the strenuous efforts of Sherlock Holmes avert an international calamity and bring to justice this evil assassin? All is revealed in a tale that even the late Conan Doyle would have been proud of.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 191
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 10 Aug 2001

ISBN 10: 0749005467
ISBN 13: 9780749005467

Media Reviews
'The author takes his plot and characters seriously and delivers an excellently researched and spirited addition to what I hope personally, may be the never ending story of the Great Detective.' John Seeley, The District Messenger, The Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
Author Bio
Barrie Roberts is the author of a series of successful Sherlock Holmes novels, including Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail, also available from Allison & Busby. He has tried his hand at many jobs from freclance journalist to folksinger, but has spent most of his professional life as a criminal lawyer.