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Author: Anthony Horowitz
ISBN : B004W3VY2Y
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Free download Epub The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.
Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT...
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.
Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1
New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write
The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print...until now.Books with free ebook downloads available Epub The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
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- Print Length: 300 pages
- Publisher: Mulholland Books; 1st edition (November 1, 2011)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004W3VY2Y
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Epub The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
The House of Silk is a lead-footed, poorly written book. The title alone made me think of the "Cleveland Street Scandal." So I was not surprised by that aspect of it when it finally turned up.
Ignoring for the moment that it included names like "Holmes" and "Watson" it is just NOT a well-written tale. The writing is sluggish and some of it makes no sense at all. At times I had the impression that it had been written in the third person and hastily converted to first person. Sometimes a 1st person narrator could not possibly have seen what was being described. Such was the case with the Boston raid. We have someone narrating to Holmes & Watson what someone else told him. The story would not have had the kind of location detail that it did in such case.
Some readers have complained that Horowitz makes Watson stupid. A bigger complaint is that Horowitz treats the reader as stupid. For example, when Holmes in disguise meets Mrs. Watson at the train station. How many of you did not know that was Holmes in disguise? How many of you still did not know it when Watson said it was Holmes in disguise? How many of you needed Watson to rehash why Holmes would be in disguise? Why hit the reader over the head repeatedly, esp. will such a small point? It certainly slows down the pace of the story.
In other places action or dialogue repeats a page or two after it first occurs. I've seen that in manuscripts. It is easy for a writer to do, and if it is hastily written, the writer may not do enough read-throughs to catch it. But an editor is supposed to catch that kind of thing and point it out so one is removed. In general it seems more like an unedited first or second draft ravel than a finished novel.
As far as it being close to Doyle's style ..
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