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The Devil's Blaze

by Robert J. Harris
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Set during World War II in London, a thrilling murder mystery where the world's greatest detective must uncover the truth behind a seemingly impossible series of high-profile assassinations.
London, 1943.

Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace—Sherlock Holmes.

The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Sherlock Holmes knows the truth that behind his façade of respectability, Moriarty is the mastermind behind a vast criminal empire.

As they together pursue the trail of incendiary murders, Holmes is quite sure that Moriarty is playing a double-game—and that there lies ahead a duel to the death from which they will not both survive.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Sherlock Holmes in WWII

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 1, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781639362493

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      • ISBN: 9781639362493
      • File size: 2437 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      November 1, 2022
      Sherlock Holmes never existed. His fans know that, but we see the bright side: he can never die. He's kept going by movies, teleplays, graphic novels, and pastiches. Harris' effort is among the last, though its inspiration is those Basil Rathbone films from the 1940s, one of which has Holmes and Watson battling Hitler, as they do here. The two heroes, along with archvillain Moriarty, plodding Inspector Lestrade, and Holmes' brother, Mycroft, leap decades and play their roles without aging (though Holmes and Lestrade have outgrown hostilities and become colleagues). Here, Holmes is an action hero, believable if one recalls the river chase in ""The Sign of the Four."" He duels, brawls, swims, and climbs cliffs, all described in prose so vivid one can almost watch the action. In addition to tracking the efforts of Holmes and his team to keep Moriarty from peddling superweapons to Hitler, Harris also explores a melancholy side to the sleuth's personality. Could the great man not be as happy in his solitude as he pretends? Sure enough, Holmes now reveals his fear that his friend will be ""leaving me here in desolate loneliness.

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