Sherlock Holmes Le nebbie di Londra
2019
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4.14
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Un rettangolo di luce compare d'un tratto nella densa coltre caliginosa. È una porta aperta. Muovendosi a tentoni nell'impenetrabile cappa giallastra che pervade le vie della città, Sherlock Holmes e il dottor Watson varcano la soglia della casa al numero 11 di Boston Street. Li ha condotti sul posto un giornalista americano, a caccia della ragazza russa che gli ha rubato una collana di diamanti. Ciò che trovano tuttavia, nella stanza adibita a biblioteca, è un uomo riverso sulla scrivania di mogano, con la gola tagliata, in una pozza di sangue. Li attende poco dopo nella sala da pranzo un altro cadavere, quello di una donna, che giace sul pavimento accanto a un lungo tavolo di quercia. Appeso al collo spicca il gioiello trafugato, scintillante intorno al manico del piccolo coltello conficcato nel petto. Al duplice omicidio sembra in qualche modo collegato un esclusivo club maschile, ed è tra i notabili della società londinese che il grande segugio dovrà esercitare le sue doti investigative. Cercando la strada della verità nella fitta nebbia che avvolge tanto la metropoli quanto un caso dai minacciosi risvolti internazionali.
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Author
Daniel D. Victor
Author · 7 books
Daniel D. Victor is a retired high school teacher who lives with his wife and two sons in his native Los Angeles, California. A graduate of Fairfax High School, he earned his BA at UC Berkeley, his MA at California State University, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. in American Literature at the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, CA. His doctoral dissertation, THE MUCKRAKER AND THE DANDY: THE CONFLICTING PERSONAE OF DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS, led to the creation of the Sherlock Holmes pastiche THE SEVENTH BULLET. Originally published as a Thomas Dunne Book by St. Martin's Press in 1992, it was reprinted in paperback by Titan Books, UK, in 2010 as part of its series, "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," and translated into Russian in 2012. The novel's first two chapters also appeared in Cold Mountain Review, Appalachian State University. In addition to his writing, Victor has won numerous teaching awards including an independent study grant offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as admission to two NEH summer seminars, one at UC Berkeley, the other at Oxford University in Oxford, England. Victor's second novel, A STUDY IN SYNCHRONICITY, is a murder mystery with a two-stranded plot, one of which features a Sherlock Holmes-like private detective. Victor's second Holmes novel, THE FINAL PAGE OF BAKER STREET, in which Holmes finds the young Raymond Chandler working for him as a pageboy, was published in 2014. It is the first volume of his series, "Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati," produced by MX Publishing. The second, THE BARON OF BREDE PLACE (2015), introduces Holmes to novelist Stephen Crane; the third, SEVENTEEN MINUTES TO BAKER STREET (2016), presents Mark Twain; and the fourth, THE OUTRAGE AT THE DIOGENES CLUB (2016), involves Jack London. Victor has also contributed short stories about Holme to the anthologies, THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES, BEYOND WATSON, and HOLMES AWAY FROM HOME.
