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Sherlock Holmes and the real thing

a case history recorded by John H. Watson, M.D

Nicholas Meyer, (1945-)

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"London, 189-: The great city is brought to a standstill by a series of blizzards and Sherlock Holmes is bored to distraction. It would take a miracle to bring a case to the detective's door ... What arrives is not promising: a landlady who complains her artist tenant is behind on rent. Not exactly the miracle for which Holmes was hoping. But, next thing you know, there are several corpses and Sherlock Holmes and his biographer, John H. Watson, MD, find themselves drawn into one of the most bizarre cases of the great detective's career. And into the cutthroat big business of Art, where chicanery and mendacity (and cut throats) proliferate. What makes a work of art worth killing for? Is it the artist, his mistress, his dealer, or his blackmailer? The cast of characters is large. But are they perpetrators, accomplices, or victims? And just who is Juliet Packwood, with whom Watson has become infatuated? Oh, and there's one other problem: Is this a genuine Holmes case or a clever forgery? Is this the real thing?"--

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Title Statement Sherlock Holmes and the real thing: a case history recorded by John H. Watson, M.D. / edited by Nicholas Meyer.
Author Meyer, Nicholas, 1945-
Publication New York: The Mysterious Press,[2025]©2025
Edition First edition.
Extent of Item xii, 248 pages ;
ISBN 9781613166567 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07987234
Summary "London, 189-: The great city is brought to a standstill by a series of blizzards and Sherlock Holmes is bored to distraction. It would take a miracle to bring a case to the detective's door ... What arrives is not promising: a landlady who complains her artist tenant is behind on rent. Not exactly the miracle for which Holmes was hoping. But, next thing you know, there are several corpses and Sherlock Holmes and his biographer, John H. Watson, MD, find themselves drawn into one of the most bizarre cases of the great detective's career. And into the cutthroat big business of Art, where chicanery and mendacity (and cut throats) proliferate. What makes a work of art worth killing for? Is it the artist, his mistress, his dealer, or his blackmailer? The cast of characters is large. But are they perpetrators, accomplices, or victims? And just who is Juliet Packwood, with whom Watson has become infatuated? Oh, and there's one other problem: Is this a genuine Holmes case or a clever forgery? Is this the real thing?"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Detectives--Fiction
Diaries--Fiction
Murder--Fiction--Investigation
Private investigators--Fiction--England
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction
By Name Holmes, Sherlock
Watson, John H
By Location London (England)--Fiction--19th century
By Genre Detective and mystery fiction
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