The Devil's Blaze

By Robert J Harris,

Book cover of The Devil's Blaze: Sherlock Holmes 1943

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Set in London during World War II, a thrilling murder mystery where the world’s greatest detective must uncover the truth behind a seemingly impossible series of high-profile assassinations.

London, 1943.

Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the…

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Holmes and Watson are put through their paces by Robert Harris, who, in his writing, captures the style, pace, and excitement of Conan Doyle. 

The book actually opens with a mini-mystery, a case that Sherlock solves within a few minutes after the facts are presented to him by Lestrade, and he does all this without ever leaving his armchair! Holmes then has to confront and overpower the forces of international evil at work in wartime England, mostly engineered by Prof. Moriarty (remember him?) At stake is the survival of civilized life as we know it.

We are taken behind the…

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