She tells Holmes and Watson that she is about to inherit a large sum of money left to her by her aunt if she is "sound in mind" upon reaching the age of twenty-one. In this novel, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited by a new client, Eve Allerthorpe, who is greatly distressed by strange happenings that seem to haunt her at Fellscar Keep in Yorkshire. It's slightly akin to George Mann's Wychwood and Hallowdene, but is a pure-blooded Sherlock Holmes story with plenty of details. It reads like a Victorian mystery story that has been aimed at modern readers who love mysteries and are captivated by sprinkles of folklore and horror.
This novel is a good old-fashioned Sherlock Holmes story with speculative fiction elements.
I couldn't help but turn pages in order to find out what happens at the end and how the mysteries are solved. This novel took me wholly by surprise, because I was pulled into the story from the very start by the author's gripping storytelling skills. Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon is one of the most captivating novels I've ever read about Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS DEMON BY JAMES LOVEGROVEĪre you in need of something entertaining and thrilling to read during the holidays? There's no need to look further, because James Lovegrove's Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon will be the perfect novel for you to sink into during the holidays. There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realise that no one is beyond suspicion. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.Įve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound in mind, but it seems that something - or someone - is threatening her sanity. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Information about Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon: He lives in south-east England.Ĭlick here to visit his official website. 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. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. James Lovegrove's Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon was published by Titan Books in October 2019.
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