Action, rather than ratiocination, dominates, and the writing is uneven. After Holmes has a terrifying supernatural encounter, Watson reveals the true circumstances of how he was wounded in Afghanistan, and the pair team up. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left. Holmes suspects Stamford of being behind a series of gruesome murders that have left the victims’ corpses desiccated. The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove: 9781785652912 : Books It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks Series in Order (3 Books) Book Descriptions for series: Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows Nov-2016 Book - 1 It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Valentine Stamford, disrupted a disguised Holmes’s surveillance of the man. In a prologue, Watson admits that in his previously recounted stories he has constructed “a shell of artifice around a dark, rotten kernel so as to protect civilisation from certain facts that would throw its cosy self-assurance into drastic and lasting disarray.” He begins with an altered account of his first meeting with Holmes the pair actually met in 1880 in a seedy back alley London pub when Watson’s well-intentioned intervention in a violent confrontation involving an old colleague, Dr. British author Lovegrove ( Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine) attempts a thorough revision of the canon in this trilogy kickoff, but fails to effectively blend the world of the uber-rational Holmes with that of Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors.
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