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Sherlock Holmes #2
Sherlock Holmes and the Body Snatchers
Fast-paced and well-researched, “Sherlock Holmes and the Body Snatchers,” sequel to “Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire,” takes the famous detective out of his familiar London environs and places him in 1888 Manhattan, a place of sin and vice, rivaling the worst London has to offer. Holmes chases his nemesis while he struggles with the enigma Barlucci presents.
328 pages, Paperback
First published November 26, 2013
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October 23, 2024
The story line is familiar, but locations are quite different. Sherlock Homes and Doctor Watson are on the trail of the murderer of several people, which takes them across the sea to the United States.
January 21, 2016
Sherlock Holmes and the Body Snatchers by Dean Turnbloom
*** Possible Spoilers. I try, but the set up for the novel is what I try to give, not the full story. ***
What has gone before:
In the previous book, The Whitechapel Vampire, Holmes dealt with the evil of Baron Barlucci, a six-hundred year old vampire during 1888. The book ends with Baron Barlucci escaping aboard the Animus Lacuna, en route to New York City. With him is Sir Charles Warren’s niece, Abigail Drake…
As this book opens, a lifeboat from the Animus Lacuna washes ashore on Newfoundland, bearing the body of Abigail Drake. There is no sign of Baron Barlucci, but from the amount of wreckage washed up on the shore the ship is assumed lost with all hands.
This is later confirmed by Mandible Pierce who is from another ship that discovered the beached wreck of the Animus Lacuna. He has a wild tale of a devil which attacked his men who had landed at the wreckage to search for survivors.
Attacked himself by this devil, he fires all barrels of his revolver setting off an avalanche that buries the wreckage, the bodies of his fallen comrades, and the devil. He barely escapes himself.
The body of Abigail Drake is stolen from the morgue where she lay. The morgue embalmer is found stuffed into her coffin, being devoured by rats. Despite all the vicious wounds, the body has little to no blood.
An Inspector Andrews of Scotland Yard has been sent to Newfoundland to retrieve the body. He tracks it to a ferry to New York City. On the trip over men are killed. Andrews takes the Police Ferry, and arrives in time to meet the ferry from Newfoundland.
By now, local detectives Mylo Strumm and his partner Michael Murray are involved. With Andrews they search trunks on the ferry for the body. One is discovered empty, but big enough for it to contain the body. The trunk is the property of an unnamed upper-class foreigner.
Abigail Drake’s twin sister Emily is checking on her sister’s missing body. Oddly enough, she takes a secluded house off Central Park. At times she displays very odd behavior. She arranges for Doctor Tremaine to have a stocked laboratory in her house. But she is seen in the daylight and cannot possibly be a vampire.
Holmes and Watson are sent to New York to join the investigation into Abigail’s missing body. Inspector Andrews disappears and is found drained of blood and stuffed into a trunk…
As with the previous story, this is just the set up for the novel. The true beauty lies in the game. As the body count rises, so of them are more and more brutal. Holmes and Detective Strumm pursue one dead-end clue after the other.
They begin to realize that they just might have to change their thinking on what is possible…
This book was certainly as good if not better than the first one. The many roads of misdirection make it a great read. I give it five plus stars.
Quoth the Raven…
*** Possible Spoilers. I try, but the set up for the novel is what I try to give, not the full story. ***
What has gone before:
In the previous book, The Whitechapel Vampire, Holmes dealt with the evil of Baron Barlucci, a six-hundred year old vampire during 1888. The book ends with Baron Barlucci escaping aboard the Animus Lacuna, en route to New York City. With him is Sir Charles Warren’s niece, Abigail Drake…
As this book opens, a lifeboat from the Animus Lacuna washes ashore on Newfoundland, bearing the body of Abigail Drake. There is no sign of Baron Barlucci, but from the amount of wreckage washed up on the shore the ship is assumed lost with all hands.
This is later confirmed by Mandible Pierce who is from another ship that discovered the beached wreck of the Animus Lacuna. He has a wild tale of a devil which attacked his men who had landed at the wreckage to search for survivors.
Attacked himself by this devil, he fires all barrels of his revolver setting off an avalanche that buries the wreckage, the bodies of his fallen comrades, and the devil. He barely escapes himself.
The body of Abigail Drake is stolen from the morgue where she lay. The morgue embalmer is found stuffed into her coffin, being devoured by rats. Despite all the vicious wounds, the body has little to no blood.
An Inspector Andrews of Scotland Yard has been sent to Newfoundland to retrieve the body. He tracks it to a ferry to New York City. On the trip over men are killed. Andrews takes the Police Ferry, and arrives in time to meet the ferry from Newfoundland.
By now, local detectives Mylo Strumm and his partner Michael Murray are involved. With Andrews they search trunks on the ferry for the body. One is discovered empty, but big enough for it to contain the body. The trunk is the property of an unnamed upper-class foreigner.
Abigail Drake’s twin sister Emily is checking on her sister’s missing body. Oddly enough, she takes a secluded house off Central Park. At times she displays very odd behavior. She arranges for Doctor Tremaine to have a stocked laboratory in her house. But she is seen in the daylight and cannot possibly be a vampire.
Holmes and Watson are sent to New York to join the investigation into Abigail’s missing body. Inspector Andrews disappears and is found drained of blood and stuffed into a trunk…
As with the previous story, this is just the set up for the novel. The true beauty lies in the game. As the body count rises, so of them are more and more brutal. Holmes and Detective Strumm pursue one dead-end clue after the other.
They begin to realize that they just might have to change their thinking on what is possible…
This book was certainly as good if not better than the first one. The many roads of misdirection make it a great read. I give it five plus stars.
Quoth the Raven…
July 7, 2014
I believe this is a better written book than the first and, although not a true Holmes pastiche in the strictest sense, it is closer than the first. It's written in first person from the POV of Watson, for the most part, although there are scenes with other POVs. It is, I believe, better paced than the the first book and I hope will be better received.
This is the second book of a trilogy involving Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire, which is the title of the first. I'm currently working on the third, which I am attempting to write entirely from Watson's POV. If successful, not only with the story and the characters have arcs, so will the writing itself. WIsh me luck.
This is the second book of a trilogy involving Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire, which is the title of the first. I'm currently working on the third, which I am attempting to write entirely from Watson's POV. If successful, not only with the story and the characters have arcs, so will the writing itself. WIsh me luck.
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