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1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their three-year-old son Harry. Until, that is, Audrey's lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are summoned to Sir Henry's aid, and our heroes must face a marauding beast that is the very stuff of nightmares. It seems that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all, as Holmes believed, and is hell-bent on revenge...

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Publisher : Titan Publishing Group (1 January 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1789094690
ISBN-13 : 978-1789094695
Dimensions : 13.64 x 3.51 x 20.45 cm

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This artful inversion of the structure of Conan Doyle's novel will please Sherlockians
-Publishers Weekly

The latest pastiche by the author of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust is a clever follow-up to The Hound of the Baskervilles. The language, characters, and pacing is accurate enough to satisfy even hard-core Holmes fans. -Library Journal

James Lovegrove has a nice grasp of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing style, and it is easy for readers to fall into this tale and become consumed by it. - BookReporter

"A wonderful addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon, extrapolating cleverly from the original oeuvre to present something fresh and absorbing for the modern reader" - Criminal Element

"Packed with familiar faces and places but with a fresh twist, this is a novel perfectly suited to classic Holmes fans" - The Crime Review

"Lovegrove has crafted a true page-turner... The novel reads as a classic Sherlock Holmes tale yet has a subtle modern flare to it" - Fangirl Nation

"Lovegrove has a great voice for Sherlock Holmes" - Girl Who Reads

"Entertaining and foreboding" - Reviewing the Evidence

"Mystery excellence that should be on everybody's reading list" - RisingShadow

About the Author

James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Firefly: Big Damn Hero with Nancy Holder and Firefly: The Magnificent Nine, and several Sherlock Holmes novels for Titan Books. He lives in south-east England.

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fantasychild

Basil Rathbone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 December 2020

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He gives Conan Doyle a great compliment. The story, while reminiscent of the 'Hound' twists and turns and in my mind I could see Basil Rathbone puzzling and pondering. I would recommend to all lovers of the great detective.

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Jean Slavin

Great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2020

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A worthy sequel to the hound of the baskervilles.well done Mr lovebirds not Doyle but close.

Nick McCormack

Rubbish.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2020

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This is the most contrived story that I have had the misfortune to read in many a day, the only thing missing is the revelation that Moriarty was Mrs. Hudson's love child.

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Sinjin

A dismal ending to many beloved characters

Reviewed in the United States on 24 January 2021

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I was looking forward to revisiting Baskerville Hall and spending more time on the moor but unfortunately,
this sequel is handled like so many sequels these days: with a harsh and heavy hand. Most of the original Devon
cast are laid waste to, and even the great Grimpen Mire is not spared; in an ecological disaster, it's drained!

I found all these events disturbing, and they greatly reduced my pleasure in reading the story. I also had trouble with the new character, Grier. Introducing an African-American Buffalo soldier into Victorian England had potential, and there's a slight head nod to some of the interesting social situations that might arise,
but overall, Grier is treated like another Watson. Even his expansive vocabulary and phrasing are identical to
Holmes's and Watson's, which stretched my suspension of disbelief to the breaking point. He had no real voice
of his own. This is a pity as Grier could still be portrayed as intelligent, steadfast, and resourceful without sounding like he attended a British finishing school. At the end of the day, he seemed totally unnecessary and a distraction.

In The Christmas Demon, I felt like the author did a great job of emulating Conan Doyle's style. That seems to
break down some here. One problem is that there is way too much exposition. Maybe a modern audience
needs this, but it felt too modern for the narrative. Holmes also tolerated WAY too much small talk. These,
along with Grier's excellent Westminster diction, took me a bit out of the story. As for the mystery, I was able to figure out what the somewhat ridiculous beast was immediately--granted, in Doyle's day, it might
have been harder, so I'll let this pass. The real villain was also fairly easy to guess, especially about halfway
through the book. This is partly due to the book being a sequel, which narrowed down the suspects.

Despite this whingeing, this is an enjoyable enough read and it makes up for the main weakness of the original Hound, which is the absence of Sherlock Holmes through much of it (this may be why Grier was needed, so Watson could take his turn at staying in London, though this was completely pointless to the story). Lovegrove does a good job with Holmes's "voice," and can come up with good observations for Holmes to impress Watson and advance the case. He also does a good job of getting Holmes & Watson away from Baker Street and into more exotic locales, which is probably wise when writing for a modern audience. But at the end, the villains were hard to swallow, and made for a sad resolution to one of Doyle's greatest stories.

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Rory Coker

A wild adventure for Holmes and Watson, that may annoy some readers

Reviewed in the United States on 15 November 2020

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In this adventure, we range from the dismal moors near Baskerville Hall, to the dense up-river jungles of Costa Rica. The writing style is not a good simulation of that of the canonical Watson, and the recorded events generally verge on the highly implausible. Despite two big red herrings dragged across the narrative, I easily guessed the main villain about halfway along in the novel, which is not a good sign. However, the author borrows a plot device found in almost every one of the classic DOC SAVAGE pulp novels, in order to double the number of villains at the last moment. I think the wild and outlandish goings-own may well offend many fans of the canonical Holmes and Watson adventures, but others will probably take them in stride. Just be aware, we are about as far from gaslit London as one can get.

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