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The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty--dubbed the Napoleon of crime" by Holmes--in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.
Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty's death has left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place--including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind.
Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in "The Sign of Four", must forge a path through the darkest corners of England's capital--from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London 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.
A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from one of the only writers to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle's estate, Moriarty breathes life into Holmes's dark and fascinating world.
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In this disappointing follow-up to Horowitz's brilliant first Holmes pastiche, The House of Silk (2011), Sherlock Holmes appears only in passing, in a prologue in which narrator Frederick Chase, a Pinkerton operative, details the plot holes in Watson's account of the fatal encounter between the great detective and the Napoleon of crime at the Reichenbach Falls in 1891. Chase is on the trail of Clarence Devereux, an American Moriarty, when news reaches him of the tragedy in Switzerland. Chase believes that Moriarty and Devereux had been in contact, and he travels immediately to Meiringen, where he winds up teaming with Scotland Yard's Insp. Athelney Jones, who displays an unexpected gift for Sherlockian deduction. After decoding a message setting a meeting between Moriarty and Devereux at London's Café Royal, Chase plans to impersonate the master criminal. As a pair, Jones and Chase are but a pale shadow of Holmes and Watson. Agent: Jonathan Lloyd, Curtis Brown (U.K.). (Dec.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A Sherlockian pastiche without Holmes and Watson? Yes indeed, and it's a tour de force quite unlike any other fruit from these densely plowed fields.It is 1891. Holmes and professor James Moriarty are both presumed dead after hurtling over Reichenbach Falls, though the only body that's been recovered is thought to be that of a chef at the Englischer Hof. The Pinkerton Detective Agency has sent operative Frederick Chase to England to investigate rumors that Clarence Devereux, fresh from his triumphantly lucrative scheme to manipulate stock prices by sending false information over Western Union wires, has come to join Moriarty in an Anglo-American criminal empireand, finding the Napoleon of crime deceased, has stayed to become his successor. Joining forces with DI Athelney Jones, whose admiration of Holmes is just this side of idolatry, Chase tries to trace the agoraphobic Devereux through his lieutenants Edgar and Leland Mortlake and safecracker Scotchy Lavelle. The only results of their search are a series of violent reprisals, and when they finally catch up with Devereux at a function hosted by American legate (and president's son) Robert Todd Lincoln, he turns the tables on them with insolent ease, leaving them both scurrying to hang on to their jobs. Since Jones talks and acts just like Holmes and Chase is every bit as enterprising as Dr. Watson, they seem likely to run their quarry to earth, with pauses along the way for lightning deductions and a drastically compressed sequel to "The Red-Headed League." But canny Sherlock-ian Horowitz (The House of Silk, 2011, etc.) still has more tricks up his sleeve. Readers who aren't put off by the Hollywood pacing, with action set pieces less like Conan Doyle than the Robert Downey Jr. movies, are in for a rare treat, a mystery as original as it is enthralling. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Horowitz is the fellow who gave us the wonderful Foyle's War on PBS and maybe the best Holmes pastiche ever, The House of Silk (2011). Now he's done it again, with a stunning riff on the Holmes-Moriarty clash. It's full of allusions to the Holmes canon that Sherlockians will congratulate themselves for spotting, then wince moments later when Horowitz gently reveals the prank. The hero here introduces himself as Frederick Chase, a Pinkerton agent sent from the U.S. to sort out Moriarty's gang. He partners with Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, whom Holmes walked over in The Sign of Four. The experience addled Jones, who has made himself a wannabe, breaking codes and analyzing writing and struggling to be a master of disguises. Horowitz spins his tale in pitch-perfect Watsonian prose, easy and flowing, setting readers up for a finale that is truly jaw-dropping. A few pages at the end let us know how the con was worked on us, and that's fun, too, but it takes a while before the shakes go away.--Crinklaw, Don Copyright 2014 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
Horowitz follows up this feat of ratiocinative razzle-dazzle with a lovely bit of code-breaking executed by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a laughingstock in "The Sign of Four" but redeemed here as a staunch disciple of the master and his methods. After meeting cute over a dead body fished out of the Reichenbach Brook, the two detectives team up in pursuit of a criminal mastermind lately arrived from America with three henchmen, intent on joining forces with Moriarty. "They were not gentlemen," one British villain observes of his American counterparts. "They paid not the slightest attention to the rules of sportsmanship and civility." Worse than that, the Yanks import a level of violence rarely seen in Britain. Notwithstanding the intensely atmospheric late-industrial-age English setting, the brutal action is U.S.A. all the way. Jones and Chase work so well together that they consider setting up their own private practice. "London needs a new consulting detective," Chase assures his companion. Despite the mutual admiration, they aren't all that convincing as cerebral sleuths on the order of Holmes and Watson. They actually make better action figures, moving purposefully from quiet private clubs in Mayfair to the chaos of the London docks, ever alert for characters (isn't that John Clay from "The Red-Headed League"?) and clues (where did that poisoned dart come from, if not Pondicherry Lodge?) shrewdly plucked from the Holmesian canon and strewn throughout the story to make us feel smart for spotting them. THE ISRAELI AUTHOR Liad Shoham takes no prisoners in asylum CITY (Harper, $25.99), which presents a shocking account of immigration policies in Tel Aviv, a destination for waves of asylum seekers from Africa. Michal Poleg, a young social worker with the nonprofit Organization for Migrant Aid, accuses certain "loathsome" members of the Knesset of a "relentless campaign" to deport the refugees. But shortly after filing a formal complaint, she is murdered, which forces this ugly business out into the open. As translated from Hebrew by Sara Kitai, Shoham's narrative style is so free of nuance that it undercuts the force of his argument. But a brief look at the miserable conditions in a women's shelter or a stark account of how Bedouins prey on migrants crossing the Sinai Desert is more revelatory than all the melodramatic plot twists. And despite her rants against criminal predators, Michal understood that "when the government doesn't provide basic services, a vacuum is created, and that vacuum is filled by all sorts of scum." regional authors have an understandable tendency to smarten up the neighborhood and make things look nice for visitors. Not so CB McKenzie, whose first mystery, BAD COUNTRY (Thomas Dunne/ Minotaur, $24.99), says it all in the title. The part of Arizona where he sets his novel is rough territory, close to the Mexican border and in the direct path of illegal immigrants making their way across the Sonoran Desert. "This was one of the emptiest places in the world, but there was still a lot to look at," in the opinion of Rodeo Grace Garnet, the protagonist of this bleak but elegantly told story. Long departed from the professional circuit and currently living off crumbs as a private investigator, Rodeo rooms with his decrepit dog in a desolate region where someone has been dumping dead bodies and everybody thinks he's the one to clean up the mess. McKenzie's voice is as dry and gritty as desert sand, just right for scouring this harsh landscape of cheap motels, run-down trailer parks and Indian trading posts selling polyester blankets. LIKE HIS HOMETOWN, Detroit, Amos Walker is on the skids. In YOU KNOW WHO KILLED ME (Tom Doherty/Forge, $24.99), Loren D. Estleman's case-hardened private eye is fresh out of rehab and none too steady on his feet. A friend on the police force throws him a pity job, doing some legwork on a murder case in Iroquois Heights - with the proviso that he keep his nose out of the investigation. But Walker never graduated from obedience school, and he's soon conducting terse, tongue-in-cheek interviews with a rogues' gallery of "nosy neighbors, gossip addicts, cranks, pranksters, ax-grinders, attention hounds and fruitcakes" who all want to get their hands on the $10,000 reward money offered by a local church. For readers who mourn the passing of the classic American private eye who drinks hard liquor, ogles the dames and cracks one-liners out of the side of his mouth, Walker's your man. And the sweet part is that he's the genuine article - a decent guy trying to do an honest job in a society that no longer shares his working-class ethic or values his skills. Except, of course, for us.
Library Journal Review
From the best-selling author of The House of Silk comes a cunning new thriller. The year is 1891, Sherlock Holmes is presumed dead, and so is the villainous James Moriarty. Pinkerton Detective Agency's Frederick Chase, on the tracks of an international criminal mastermind, arrives in Europe only days after the fatal incident at Reichenbach Falls. There he makes the acquaintance of Scotland Yard's Insp. Athelney Jones, a man now well versed in the arts of deduction and ratiocination. Together the two return to a London inhumed by criminal activities. Without the assistance of the great Sherlock, will the detectives be able to uncover the ringleader and restore the peace in time to prevent a personal tragedy? Verdict Fans of Horowitz-and as the creator of the popular television series Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War, he has many-will be eager to get their hands on this meticulously researched and skillfully executed literary thriller. A fiendishly plotted exploit sure to bedevil staunch Sherlockians and fans of the popular BBC series (Sherlock) alike. [See Prepub Alert, 7/14/14.]-Liv Hanson, Chicago (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.