Publisher's Synopsis
It's 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date - a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London's most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. But when his brother Mycroft disappears, apparently the victim of murder, even those loyal to Holmes begin to wonder how close to the flames he has travelled. Has Sherlock Holmes himself made a deal with the devil? "One of the best Sherlock Holmes novels of recent memory, at least as entertaining as Anthony Horowitz's The House of Silk … MacBird's artistry will keep readers eagerly turning the pages just to see how she orchestrates the big reveal" WASHINGTON POST
