Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is the first of a trilogy, with Sherlock Holmes & The Miskatonic Monstrosities due out in Fall of 2017 and Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils to wrap things up in November of 2018. Lovegrove, who has written several non-Holmes books, is part of Titan’s stable of new Holmes authors. So, I’ll try to limit revelations in this one, but be warned: There be spoilers here! But sometimes, especially with older books, that’s part of the price of the post. And it can be tough to talk about the strong points of a book without giving away key elements. I don’t do a lot of book reviews here at The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes because I generally don’t like to reveal spoilers. James Lovegrove currently has Holmes interacting with the Cthulhu mythos. Crossovers have become more and more popular over the years. 1965’s A Study in Terror sent Holmes after Jack the Ripper on movie screens and in 1988, and Sax Rohmer biographer Clay Van Ash brought Holmes and Fu Manchu together in Ten Years Beyond Baker Street. I think you know who he’s battling – spelling disregarded. In the early 1900’s, Maurice Leblanc had his French detective, Arsene Lupin, face off with Herlock Sholmes.
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