Moriarty : a novel

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Moriarty : a novel

Author:

Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- author.

ISBN:

9781481516051

9781481516044

9780062388025

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication:

[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. ; [New York] : Harper Audio, [2014]

Physical Description:

8 audio discs (10 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from disc label.

Summary:

"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' 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"-- from publisher's web site

Personal Subject:

Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01026192

Subject(s):

Police -- England -- London -- Fiction.

Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Genre:

Added Author:

Rhind-Tutt, Julian, 1968-

Jacobi, Derek

Added Corporate Author:

Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Harper Audio (Firm)

Holds:

Available:*

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Summary

Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of Detective Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty--dubbed "the Napoleon of crime"--in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

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.

Riveting and deeply atmospheric, Moriarty is the first Sherlock Holmes novel sanctioned by the author's estate since Horowitz's House of Silk. This tale of murder and menace breathes life into Holmes's fascinating world, again proving that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however im- probable, must be the truth.

Author Notes

Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series.

The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

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.