Sherlock Holmes And The Giant Rat of Sumatra - Hardcover

Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra by Paul D. Gilbert is a Sherlock Holmes mystery set in London in 1898. This edition is a hardback.

Key details

• Author: Paul D. Gilbert
• Format: Hardback
• Set in London, autumn 1898

Synopsis

Dockworkers are unsettled when the Matilda Briggs, a tea cutter long overdue from Calcutta, drifts into a vacant berth apparently guided by an unseen hand. The ship has been abandoned by its crew, with only a lone cabin boy left aboard, dying after a violent attack; the log has vanished, and strange, indecipherable markings have been scratched into the decking.

Holmes and Watson are drawn into the case and urged to keep away, just as a young man arrives at Baker Street with a mysterious packet from his missing father, who disappeared while travelling to London from Calcutta. As questions gather around the cargo and the unrest that follows, the investigation turns towards the notorious “Giant Rat of Sumatra”. Suitable for readers who enjoy Sherlock Holmes pastiches and Victorian-set detective fiction.

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