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Sherlock Holmes #3
Sherlock Holmes and the Return of the Whitechapel Vampire
This book picks up the story that began in Whitechapel where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson searched for the fiend known by the world as "Jack the Ripper" but who they knew as Baron Antonio Barlucci-the Whitechape Vampire.
After twenty-five years of quiet the Vampire returns when a "ghost ship" runs aground on a small island near Manhattan. Holmes recognizes that Barlucci has returned and the game is once more afoot. But Watson fears that retirement and regret are causing his old friend to see connections that may not exist.
Follow Holmes and Watson as they hunt for the villainous vampire, while dealing with their own demons in this final chapter of their epic twenty-five year journey.
After twenty-five years of quiet the Vampire returns when a "ghost ship" runs aground on a small island near Manhattan. Holmes recognizes that Barlucci has returned and the game is once more afoot. But Watson fears that retirement and regret are causing his old friend to see connections that may not exist.
Follow Holmes and Watson as they hunt for the villainous vampire, while dealing with their own demons in this final chapter of their epic twenty-five year journey.
240 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2015
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January 22, 2016
Sherlock Holmes and the Return of the Whitechapel Vampire by Dean Turnbloom
*** Possible Spoilers, though I try not to spoil the action and solving of the mystery ***
What has gone before:
In the first installment Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire Holmes and Watson encounter Baron Barlucci, a six hundred year old vampire. It is 1888 and Jack the Ripper is loose in Whitechapel…
In the second installment, Sherlock Holmes and the Body Snatchers, Barlucci has been shipwrecked while escaping to America. His companion, Abigail Drake shows up on the shore of Newfoundland, dead in a lifeboat. The body turns up missing. Abigail’s twin sister Emily moves into a secluded house in New York City. The killings begin anew…
Now we come to the final installment and the wrap up of all loose threads!
Holmes finds in the newspaper that a ship has run aground on an island in the East River in New York City. The ship has a dead man chained to the wheel, drained of blood. Holmes declares that Baron Barlucci is back and he and Watson head for New York.
It has been twenty-five years since the events of The Body Snatchers, and Mylo Strumm has married Emily Drake. They have a daughter, Lucie. Dr. Tremaine’s son, Phillip, has become a doctor like his father before him. He has also fallen for Lucie with all his heart.
Meanwhile it is revealed that his mother, Julia Tremaine, reported dead is actually alive and in a mental institution. She claims her husband Alan is alive also, and trapped in his tomb. Philip does not know this.
When the ship ran aground, prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were set free. Julia Tremaine is one of the released patients.
Philip and Lucie are set upon by ruffians, but saved by the quick thinking of a stranger, Alex Hume, a young musician. Soon Philip starts acting strange, and goes to a deserted building called “the octagon” on Blackwell Island to set up a laboratory and continue his father’s research into a cure for Vampirism.
Holmes spends long hours in the tunnels under New York looking for “nests” where Baron Barlucci might hide during the day. Daily he obsesses over finding the Vampire. Mylo Strumm, now a police commissioner, has started drinking heavily again. He thinks Holmes has lost his mind…
As in the other books, the thrill of the chase is paramount. The trail leads through underground tunnels, through a graveyard, a mad house, and odd buildings. The number of surprises, the plot twists, and the speed of the plot serve to build up to the climaxing crescendo.
All along questions will be raised as to where, if at all, Baron Barlucci fits in, the sanity of several of the characters involved, even who is alive and who is dead who has, or will, survive. There are some reveals for which I will admit I was unprepared.
This volume is a fitting wrap-up for the trilogy, and I give five plus stars.
Quoth the Raven…
*** Possible Spoilers, though I try not to spoil the action and solving of the mystery ***
What has gone before:
In the first installment Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire Holmes and Watson encounter Baron Barlucci, a six hundred year old vampire. It is 1888 and Jack the Ripper is loose in Whitechapel…
In the second installment, Sherlock Holmes and the Body Snatchers, Barlucci has been shipwrecked while escaping to America. His companion, Abigail Drake shows up on the shore of Newfoundland, dead in a lifeboat. The body turns up missing. Abigail’s twin sister Emily moves into a secluded house in New York City. The killings begin anew…
Now we come to the final installment and the wrap up of all loose threads!
Holmes finds in the newspaper that a ship has run aground on an island in the East River in New York City. The ship has a dead man chained to the wheel, drained of blood. Holmes declares that Baron Barlucci is back and he and Watson head for New York.
It has been twenty-five years since the events of The Body Snatchers, and Mylo Strumm has married Emily Drake. They have a daughter, Lucie. Dr. Tremaine’s son, Phillip, has become a doctor like his father before him. He has also fallen for Lucie with all his heart.
Meanwhile it is revealed that his mother, Julia Tremaine, reported dead is actually alive and in a mental institution. She claims her husband Alan is alive also, and trapped in his tomb. Philip does not know this.
When the ship ran aground, prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were set free. Julia Tremaine is one of the released patients.
Philip and Lucie are set upon by ruffians, but saved by the quick thinking of a stranger, Alex Hume, a young musician. Soon Philip starts acting strange, and goes to a deserted building called “the octagon” on Blackwell Island to set up a laboratory and continue his father’s research into a cure for Vampirism.
Holmes spends long hours in the tunnels under New York looking for “nests” where Baron Barlucci might hide during the day. Daily he obsesses over finding the Vampire. Mylo Strumm, now a police commissioner, has started drinking heavily again. He thinks Holmes has lost his mind…
As in the other books, the thrill of the chase is paramount. The trail leads through underground tunnels, through a graveyard, a mad house, and odd buildings. The number of surprises, the plot twists, and the speed of the plot serve to build up to the climaxing crescendo.
All along questions will be raised as to where, if at all, Baron Barlucci fits in, the sanity of several of the characters involved, even who is alive and who is dead who has, or will, survive. There are some reveals for which I will admit I was unprepared.
This volume is a fitting wrap-up for the trilogy, and I give five plus stars.
Quoth the Raven…
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