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Minotaur Books
April 2015
On Sale: March 24, 2015
Featuring: Arthur Conan Doyle; Charlie Higginbotham; Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 1250035066
EAN: 9781250035066
Kindle: B00NDZQ2N8
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Mystery Historical
1895. Victorian England trembles on the verge of hysteria.
Terrorist bombs are detonating around the Capitol and every
foreigner is suspected of being an Anarchist lurking beneath
a cape. Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a
gruesome crime that has baffled and outraged Scotland Yard’s
best. A senior member of Her Majesty’s government has been
brutally murdered, and the body of his attacker lies close
by—riddled with bullets. More perplexing, one of the
attending detectives recognizes the dead assassin as Charlie
Higginbotham, a local Cockney pickpocket and petty thief.
Higginbotham is not just an improbable suspect, but an
impossible suspect, for the young detective watched him take
the drop two weeks previously, hanged at Newgate Prison. Conan Doyle calls in his friend Oscar Wilde for assistance
and soon the two authors find themselves swept up in an
investigation so bizarre it defies conventional wisdom and
puts the lives of their loved ones, the Nation, and even the
Monarch herself in dire peril. The murders continue,
committed by a shadowy cadre of seemingly unstoppable
assassins. As the sinister plot unravels, an implausible
theory becomes the only possible solution: someone is
reanimating the corpses of executed criminals and sending
them shambling through the London fog… and programmed for
murder.
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