Hidden Fires - A Holmes Before Baker Street Adventure - Hardcover

Hidden Fires by Jane Rubino is a Sherlock Holmes novel set before Baker Street. This edition is a hardback, with the book also available in paperback.

Key details

• Author: Jane Rubino
• ISBN: 9781804240915
• Publication date: 10th October 2022
• Format: hardback
• Also available in paperback

Synopsis

Set in early 1902, Dr. Watson sees Holmes leave a public sale of Newgate Prison’s effects with a beautiful stranger and an unsettling memento: the death mask of a woman executed more than twenty years earlier for murdering her three children. Holmes agrees to explain the object’s history, drawing Watson into a case rooted in the late 1870s, when he was still shaping the methods that would define him.

As the investigation unfolds, a house fire, allegations of poisoning, and courtroom testimony combine to test Holmes’s judgement, with each new discovery seeming to tighten the case rather than resolve it. Rubino frames the story as an intricate Victorian-era thriller and an origin narrative, linking events to familiar elements of Holmes’s later life and reputation. Suitable for readers who enjoy Holmes pastiches and Victorian mystery.

Rackhams Reference : L7K42ZNN2B