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The House of Silk (2011) (edit title/settings)

A Sherlock Holmes Novel

by Anthony Horowitz (Author) (edit contributors)

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Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in literary history. For the first time since the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a new Holmes story has been sanctioned by his estate, whetting the appetites of fans everywhere. Information about the book will be revealed as deliberately as Holmes... read more

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For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.

Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT...

This story is a manuscript written by Dr.John Watson, and was released 100 years after it was written. This... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.

Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT...

This story is a manuscript written by Dr.John Watson, and was released 100 years after it was written. This story takes on more than one mystery, but links them both together. Dr. Watson says that this manuscript is re-telling perhaps one of the mysteries that is the most rememberable to him.

London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.

Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens, orphans, and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.

The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print...until now.

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  • Sherlock Holmes: The world's greatest consulting private detective. Very strange, secretive, arrogant, and intelligent.
  • Dr. John Watson: Holmes's best friend and biographer. Also a doctor by profession.
  • Inspector Lestrade: Member of the Scotland Yard Police. He often uses Sherlock to help to solve cases. An ally of Sherlock Holmes.
  • Mycroft Holmes: Sherlock Holmes' older brother, to whom Sherlock goes for help. Owns the Diogenes Club.
  • Edmund Carstairs: A fine art dealer who comes to Sherlock Hlomes for help. Married to Mrs. Catherine Carstairs.
  • Catherine Carstairs: Wife of Edmund Carstairs. They met on a ship leaving from America, and got married during the trip to England.
  • Keelan O'Donaghue: One of the O'Donaghue Twins, who is one of the boss members of the Flat Cap gang in Boston. While residing in Boston witht the other gang members, he has his own room. He was the only one to not be killed during the shooting in Boston, where his brother and other Flat Cap members died. Brother of Rourke O' Donaghue.
  • Rourke O'Donaghue: Twin brother oh Keelan O'Donaghue. Big, strong, beard, stayed in a room with other Flat Cap members at their headquarters in Boston.
  • Inspector Harriman: A Metropolitan Police Inspector, an enemy of Sherlock Holmes who frustrates Holmes' investigation.
  • Wiggins: The street urchin who organises the Baker Street Irregulars.
  • Ross Dixon: The member of the Baker Street Irregulars whose disappearance leads Holmes to investigate the House of Silk.
  • Charles Fitzsimmons: Rev Fitzsimmons and his wife run a school for destitute boys.
  • Dr Thomas Ackland: Witness to an alleged crime
  • Eliza Carstairs: Edmund Carstairs' sister who believes she is being poisoned and that her mother killed herself in despair at Edmund's marriage.
  • Mrs Hudson: Holmes's landlady
  • Sally Dixon: Ross Dixon's sister. Works in a pub called The Bag of Nails.
  • Mrs Fitzsimmons: Rev Fitzsimmons wife
  • Jonathan Wood: Dead prisoner
  • Patrick: Kitchen Boy at the Carstairs house
  • James Moriarty: Holmes's nemesis
  • Bill McParland: A pinkerton from the US
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

London, England
  • 221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes residence
  • Ridgeway Hall: Wimbledon.The home of Edward Carstairs
  • The Diogenes Club: Mycroft Holmes club, a place where unsociable men can go and be unsociable.
  • The House of Silk: The actual premises where the members of the House of Silk meet to engage in their chosen activity. The whereabouts of this building is a major part of Holmes' investigation
  • The Bag of Nails: A public house in London where Ross's sister reveals to Holmes the existence of the House of Silk

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I have often reflected upon the strange series of circumstances that led me to my long association with one of the most singular and remarkable figures of my age.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Preface
1. The Wimbledon Art Dealer
2. The Flat Cap Gang
3. At Ridgeway Hall
4. The Unofficial Police Force
5. Lestrade Takes Charge
6. Chorley Grange School for Boys
7. The White Ribbon
8. A Raven and Two Keys
9. The Warning
10. Bluegate Fields
11. Under Arrest
12. The Evidence in the Case
13. Poison
14. Into the Dark
15. Holloway Prison
16. The Disappearance
17. A Message
18. The Fortune-Teller
19. The House of Silk
20. Keelan O'Donaghue
Afterword

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This book is in Macavity Award. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Anthony Horowitz (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Country: England
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0316196994
Page Count: 304

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Reading Level: Adults

This book is inappropiate for youth, as it deals with sexual violence against children.

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