Sherlock Holmes and the King of Clubs
By: Steve Hayes and David Whitehead
Contributors: Whitehead, David
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Ulverscroft; Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781444825060
Subjects: Sherlock Homes (Fictitious character); John H. Watson (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Sherlock Holmes has retired to Sussex to keep bees, and Dr Watson, now a widower, has returned to general practice. Desperate for distraction, the doctor agrees to accompany his old friend to Vienna to visit the eminent neurologist Sigmund Freud. But it is not long before the pair are pulled back into the murky world of ruthless villainy. For a shadowy terrorist group, the Black Hand, plagues the city - and when the tentacles of a crime committed in England reach into Europe to coil around Harry Houdini, the Great Detective and his Boswell must rise to the occasion once more ...
Notes: Adult.