This works so well for me because Holmes’s genius is evident even though he is always one or two steps ahead yet the reader, like Watson, never quite gets the full story, the unraveling if you will, until the very end. Just as in the originals, The House of Silk is written from the perspective of Holmes’s associate and companion, Dr. Regardless, I loved this novel and became completely wrapped up in it! Some would say this is a bit darker than the originals, and I would have to agree. In my opinion, Horowitz has upheld the spirit and voice of Holmes and Watson and sustained that wonderful Victorian atmosphere of late nineteenth century London, while at the same time offering the reader a new, fresh adventure with his own spin. I am not a writer, but if I were then I would never presume to replicate an author’s work to the extent that my writing was indistinguishable from that of the original. If Doyle’s estate deemed Horowitz worthy of adding a new novel to this master’s canon, then I certainly was on board with it. While by no means a Sherlock Holmes aficionado, I would still call myself an admirer of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work, having read several of his stories in the past. I knew I had to read more Horowitz after the grand thrill that was Magpie Murders. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now. The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. ![]() And then the first murder takes place.Īlmost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. ![]() In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.
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