MURDER MYSTERY, REAL LIFE CRIME, TOPOGRAPHY,
RARE, SECOND HAND, OUT OF PRINT, BOOKS & PRINTS

Julian Symon’s book will delight all lovers of the Holmes stories. Some of Sher’s deductions have the authentic flavour of the master, others go disastrously and comically astray. Sher himself, old-fashioned, hating modern life and longing for gas-lit Victorian London, is a bit of a stick but also a most engaging character. And the mystery in which he becomes enmeshed – and eventually solves – is a real mystery, set in a vividly realized contemporary London, with a splendid climax in which Sher stalks a killer, and is stalked himself, through a swirling Victorian fog. This is perhaps the most delightfully high-spirited book Mr Symons has written.

Hardback
Book Club Associates, London 1975
14 x 21.5 cm
223 Pages

£5