The story starts in the winter of 1880 with Watson newly returned from Afghanistan and very troubled in both body and mind. Giving you an alternate retelling of their first meeting along with some of the other events that transpire during their relationship together throughout the years. He seeks to unburden his soul of these last tales of his and Holmes exploits finally revealing the three stories that make up The Cthulu Casebooks, forever changing the Sherlock Holmes canon we all believed to be true. The book starts with a short foreword by an aged Dr Watson knowing that time is catching up with him as he’s an old man nearing his end. The Shadwell Shadows is the first book to be followed by Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities in November 2017 and then by Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils in December 2018.Īfter a short preface by the author (interesting in its own right and unique). Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is the first in a new trilogy of books by author James Lovegrove merging together Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic canon and literary characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson with the Cthulu mythos created by H. I received a free copy of this book courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave or mad enough to dare…
Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Fantasy / Thriller / Urban / Mystery Horror.The Cthulu Casebooks – Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows.
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