Moriarty
By: Anthony Horowitz
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print peer picks; Thorndike Press large print peer picks
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9781410484390
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Private investigators; Murder; Police; Investigation; Large type books; History; Fiction
Description: Days after Holmes and Moriarty disappear into the waterfall's churning depths, Frederick Chase, a senior investigator at New York's infamous Pinkerton Detective Agency, arrives in Switzerland. Chase brings with him a dire warning: Moriarty's death has left a convenient vacancy in London's criminal underworld. There is no shortage of candidates to take his place -- including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind. Chase is assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones, a Scotland Yard detective and devoted student of Holmes's methods of deduction, whom Conan Doyle introduced in The Sign of Four. The two men join forces and fight their way through the sinuous streets of Victorian London -- from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the Docks -- in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.