Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Murder by the Book

Murder by the Book

Hughes, Trevor

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798342612708
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 10 2024
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The minor public school in which our narrator, Charles Neighbour learnt his English was too poor to afford any books published after the First World War. Hence his love of Victoriana and the Romantics - and also of the opium which the headmaster grew in the school garden.

Now a failed novelist, poet and short story writer he dreams of returning the literature of England to those halcyon days of yore: to the sweeping prose of the Brontes, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson; the intricate plots of Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, the lyrical poetry of Byron, Coleridge and Keats.

On receipt of his 74th rejection he realizes that the way to accomplish his aim is simple: he will murder all those literary agents, editors and publishers who have turned down his work.

Enter Consultant Detective Silas Holmes, known to everyone as Sherlock. He has been called in by Scotland Yard to help solve the mystery of a series of grisly slayings of young women, each victim found raped, murdered and branded with the mysterious letters: FCQTV. The clues are few: the pressure mounts.

When Holmes crosses paths with the charming yet enigmatic Charles they decide to join forces to track down the ritual killers. Little does Holmes realize that his new companion has his own dark agenda.

As Neighbour proceeds with the slaying of assorted editors, agents and other members of the literary landscape Emily Lasalle, fiancée of Elias Whatney, Holmes' sidekick, offers herself as bait to trap the killers.

  • Will Holmes and Whatney find Emily before she falls victim to the fiendish Satanic cult?
  • Will Charles succeed in his mission to regain the soul of English literature - one murder at a time?
  • And will the world's greatest detective realize that the solution to both mysteries is closer than he ever imagined?

Also from

Hughes, Trevor

View All

Also in

Mystery & Thriller

View All