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MATERIA NON MEDICA: A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES NOVEL

Friday, 4th of November 2011 Print
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930. Since his death, dozens of imitators have produced books and short stories 'in the style of Conan Doyle.' This year, for the first time, his literary executors have sanctioned a new Sherlock Holmes novel, 'The House of Silk,' by Anthony Horowitz.

Horowitz has captured the sounds, the scenes, the smells of the late Victorian underworld. Here, he describes the views of dockside London as Holmes and Watson make their way to a disreputable opium den.

'The fog, thick and yellow, was unfolding through the streets, deadening every sound. Vile, it seemed, like some evil animal snuffling through the darkness in search of its prey, and as we made our way forward it was as if we were delivering ourselves into its very jaws. We passed through the alley, trapped between red brick walls dripping with moisture and rising up so high that, but for the faint silvering of the moon, they might have completely blotted out the sky.'

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