Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
Book description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram in this new mystery from the author of The Return of the Pharaoh.
June, 1916. With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, M.D.…- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I'm a Holmes and Watson super-fan, and loved Nicholas Meyer's ground-breaking pastiche, The Seven Percent Solution, in which Holmes met Sigmund Freud. Meyer has since penned a number of Holmes pastiches and now gives up a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes intelligence in Holmes' 60s during World War I. Holmes makes a dashing, elderly, proto-Bond, with his veteran Boswell Watson by his side, and travels to the US and Mexico to help Britain win the war against the German Kaiser's aggression. It's up to our two heroes to convince the US to come to Britain's aid. Will the British strategy succeed?…