Why a Booktrail?
1891: Sherlock Holmes is dead?
Moriarty
Why a Booktrail?
1891: Sherlock Holmes is dead?
What you need to know before your trail
Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction, Chase must hunt down this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace.
The game is afoot . .
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A setting so linked to Sherlock Holmes is perfect for a mystery with an amateur sleuth at its centre, a murder mystery and a gripping finale right at the very place where Holmes and Moriarty had their fatal confrontation….
Reichenbach Falls
Well this novel continues after the events at this now infamous waterfall. The area is a haven for tourists of the literary kind now for the many sites and areas you have to visit for the sake of Sherlock.Some appear in this novel and you can even stay at the hotel named after him, or eat at a cafe named after him. Whilst reading the book of course.
Sherlock Holmes Museum
The novel is based in and round the characters and setting of Sherlock Holmes. This place really is noted for its Sherlock links – there’s a museum and a statue or two, and both the story and the setting lend from all Sherlock Holmes fictional world.The story reads as a mix of Sherlock Holmes meets Agatha Christie.
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A) Switzerland - the road to Reidenbach
C) London - Sherlock Holmes House
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Moriarty
Author/Guide: Anthony Horowitz Destination: Meiringen, London Departure Time: 1891
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