The Iron Metropolis: A Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Titans of Valhalla
Stephen Lees is American but attended boarding school in England. Having graduated with a law degree from the University of East Anglia he went up to Lincoln’s Inn in London to train as a barrister. His first book, ‘Visions of Architecture’, was published by Bloomsbury in 2011 and is about the construction process and why buildings are designed in a certain manner. Lees published the first volume in his epic pantology of novels about Sherlock Holmes – ‘The Iron Mausoleum’, a shocking account of the true story behind the sinking of the Titanic – in 2012. Three further volumes followed: ‘The Iron Vault’ and ‘The Iron Soul’ and ‘The Iron Titan’. The entire pantology is available on Amazon and for Kindle. The books are notable for their historical veracity and vivid descriptions of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, as well as the atmospheric descriptions of the seething underbelly of contemporary London and New York. They also contain a number of original illustrations by the author. Stephen Lees lives in London. He can usually be found at the bar in the Groucho Club. He aspires to membership of the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh.