Hidden Fires - A Holmes Before Baker Street Adventure - Paperback

Hidden Fires: A Holmes Before Baker Street Adventure by Jane Rubino is a Sherlock Holmes novel that looks back to a formative case from earlier in his life. This edition is a paperback, and the book is also available in hardback.

Key details

• Author: Jane Rubino
• ISBN: 9781804240922
• Publication date: 10 October 2022
• Format: Paperback
• Also available in hardback

Synopsis

In early 1902, on the eve of Newgate Prison’s demolition, Dr Watson sees Holmes leaving a public sale 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 satisfy Watson’s curiosity by recounting the history behind the mask.

The narrative returns to late December 1878, when a young Holmes is living in Montague Street and pursuing the studies he believes will make him “more efficient”. After a fire kills Professor Moriarty’s children, suspicion falls on Violet Rose Turner, their mother, and Holmes sets out to prove her innocence, only to find each discovery tightening the case against her. As the trial moves towards its grim conclusion, a final scrap of evidence forces Holmes to confront a brilliant and sinister deception, in a story presented as an origin tale for familiar elements of his character and background.

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