Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust
London, 1883. Mrs Hudson begs Holmes and Watson to help her friend, a fellow landlady whose lodger has been found poisoned. The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a mining engineer recently returned from Africa, rented the room under a false name, and appears to have been on the run. His last act before his death was to scrawl ’Devil’s Dust’ in his own blood. What what he trying to convey, and what is the role of aged big game hunter Allan Quatermain, who visited the man just before his murder?
James Lovegrove
James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Firefly: Big Damn Hero with Nancy Holder, Firefly: The Magnificent Nine, and Firefly: The Ghost Machine, along with several Sherlock Holmes novels. He lives in south-east England.
James Lovegrove has also published books under the pseudonyms of J. M. H. Lovegrove and Jay Amory.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes consists of five primary books, and includes thirteen additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
